We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
move across the screen — in England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South America, Africa — everywhere — peoples black, white and yellow, in rich city theatres, in congested slum districts and in small, far-away places. These multitudes are watching your dream-child, thinking your thoughts and feeling the emotion out of which your scenario was born. Should not such realization stir in you a feeling of exaltation? Should it not broaden your horizon and bring a sense of closer contact with the minds and hearts of all of your fellowmen? Should it not thrill you with the scope of your growth?
GROWTH THROUGH STUDY
All this suggests another thing which we wish to impress. The study of this art means growth, just as does any educational pursuit. One may or may not write a successful scenario. We do not guarantee that he will. We can only show the way, and do all in our power to inspire and help. But should one fail to gain a commercial return for his work, he still can feel a reward in the realization of his own growth in understanding. He has known the satisfaction of effort and creation. A study of literature does not always make a successful writer. Nor does the study of music or of painting always make a commercially successful musician or artist. But such study does enrich the student, for it helps him to get more value out of Life.
So it is with the study of the photodrama. There is no limit to the possibility of one's development in this line of education for it is the study and interpretation of Life itself. One may read all the books there are. One may listen to all the great music that has been composed, or see all the great pictures that have been painted. But one can never read the whole book of Life, or hear all of Life's music, or see all of Life's pictures. From youth to old age one is continually turning a new leaf on which he finds an experience of new interest; continually catching a new note of harmony or opening a new vein of beauty. The study of Life is the most fascinating of all studies. And this new art, which is Life's impression, opens a new world to its students.
MODERN EDUCATIONAL METHODS
The creation of the photodrama is a part of the new educational system. It trains expression. It develops the student's
[10]