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250 The Educational Screen The comic page of the cheap news- paper destroys the taste for real art, and that is the very page most eagerly devoured by our youth, and yet, should all art be forbidden? Because there is corrupting music and literature and art, we do not condemn all music, literature and art. We simply try to keep our children from the worst, and pre- sent them with the best. There are good, inspiring motion pictures, as well as those of the sor- did kind. If the people demand the best, then the best will be pro- vided. If they demand a low grade picture, the average producer and exhibitor will give them what they demand. If we are to have clean, inspiring pictures on the screen, the one way to get them is to develop a taste for them, and that can best be done in the school and the church. The motion picture has come to stay. The film industry is still in its infancy. Its educational possi- bilities are unlimited. It required no prophet to see that within a brief time every church and school will be provided with the projecting lantern and the screen, as a part of the necessary equipment. Soon every Sunday School will teach its lessons on the screen, and then we shall see recreated the old Bible stories which have inspired and ele- vated mankind for thousands of years. It is bound to come, and none can stop it. The Bible will be filmed. Pro- ducers who have been combing the world for material are now turn- ing to it, and the pulpit or the press can not stop it. The question is not, "Shall the Bible be filmed 1 but "How can the Bible best be filmed, faithfully, reverently, so that its film version, like the printed word, may inspire men to greater and better things? How, through the screen, can we bring the Bible back to the people? Several organizations have been formed to film the Bible. Some have had as their sole purpose the selling of stock. Others have been crushed by the enormous expense of such a gigantic undertaking. Still others have reproduced spec- tacular films to which have been at- tached the name of some Bible character, but with almost nothing Biblical in it. There is one com- pany which has survived, and is far on the way towards success. I refer to Sacred Films Incorporated of Burbank, California. My interest in this company is that of an archaeologist who has long been digging among the bur- ied Bible cities of the Orient, and who was called in to give advice as to the houses and costumes and other details in olden times. The reverence and the faithfulness with which the work was undertaken is responsible for these words. The purpose of the organization is to bring the Bible back to the great masses of the people. It has no other purpose. It has no stock for