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yet devised, but also in churches, private homes, schools and a host of other nontheatrical places.
In spite of bitter opposition, perhaps the first attempt at extending the field of the motion picture was the introduction of the movie into the church. Seventeen years ago the Rev. Adam Chambers installed a projector in his church — the Harlem Baptist, in New York. Today more than
2,000 churches in the United States are using motion pictures regularly in a variety of ways, from giv
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In spite of bitter opposition, perhaps the first attempt at extending the field of the motion picture was the introduction of the movie into the church. Above, a photograph of the West End Presbyterian Church in New York, showing how people have come to feel about the movie, and, right, the motion picture compartment and repair room aboard the U. S. S. Bridgeport
MORE than keeping pace with the phenomenal growth of the moving picture theater, the non-theatrical movie field today is a cardinal factor in the youngest of America's big industries. A few years ago three-reel shows in ill-ventilated, small rooms were the sole outlook
of the movie. Today, motion pictures are shown not only in the largest and most elaborate temples of amusement
wholesome amusement on Saturday afternoons to teaching Sunday-school lessons and even to preaching sermons.
The war, too, has been one of the great factors in the development of the motion picture, and particularly in the nontheatrical field. The movie was at once recognized as an indispensable part of every war machine, for it is universally popular and offers almost the only recreation to soldiers in a ' battle area on account of the small, inexpensive equipment necessary. True, there were many stage entertainments given soldiers, but these were mostly in the leave areas. Besides, the war developed many new uses of the motion picture, and not a few of these have survived the conflict. One of the most interesting of these cases is the introduction of the motion picture in Siberia and Russia. Cinema entertainments were part of the United States War Department's program in every land where there
A motion picture outfit bound for a refugee camp near Derrindge, Asia Minor .
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