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Educational Bible Films Edgar J. Banks Santa Monica, California rHE future of the motion picture industry is along Educational lines. This is a fact which pne in the industry will deny. And pong the Educational films those Kch teach Bible History will be tominent. At the present time he teaching of the Bible is forbid- en in many of the public schools ecause of sectarian interests, and et no one is opposed to religious baching. The one solution is the lible film from which sectarianism i excluded, a film equally accept- ble to Protestant, Roman Ca.th- lic and Jew. Oral teaching is ound to be permeated with the ersonal beliefs of the teachers, but le film may be made absolutely onsectarian, and acceptable to any :hool of whatever religious persu- sion. Many serious students of the ible will regret that the stories of le Old Testament are to be re- roduced in motion pictures and irown upon the screen. To them seems that the sacred scriptures lould be spared such a fate, and lat the motion picture producers lould be content with filming the ast amount of other literature. ut those very people who object ) filming the Bible have upon the helves of their libraries Bibles il- lstrated with pictures sometimes very crude, and drawn from the im- agination. In their churches they attend lectures on the Bible and Bible subjects, illustrated with stereopticon slides, and to the il- lustrated Bible and the stereopticon Bible lecture they do not object. The motion picture is but the de- velopment of the stereopticon slide. It is one of the many things which a kind providence has enabled man to discover for his own pleasure and advancement, and why should any one be prejudiced against it? It is true that many of the mo- tion pictures shown in the cheap theatres are sordid things. They corrupt our youth, and kill the taste for better things. Therefore it is argued that all motion pictures should be excluded from the church and the school. Could not the same be said of music, literature and art? Jazz destroys the taste for the music which refines and elevates; it is the music with which most of our youth are fed, and yet all music is not excluded from the church and the school. The cheap novel de- stroys the taste for the reading of things worth while, for real litera- ture; trash is crowding from the shelves of most public libraries the books which are instructive and elevating; and because of this should all books be prohibited? 249