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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE.
any manufacturing process than a year of theoretical talk on the subject.
As a technical educator, therefore, the moving picture is a marvelous power. Ask any child who has witnessed any of these industrial exhibitions how the particular article illustrated was made, and he will be able to tell you in detail, because he has actually seen the environment and every particular of actual manufacture plainly shown in operation. For instance, the process of wool-making, shown from the back of the sheep until the finished cloth is in the tailor's hands, or the transforming of a tree into wood pulp and so on into the finished newspaper. Could the pupil tell so much about these industries after months of book teaching or blackboard demonstration? Assuredly not.
Here is a fine suggestion for both public and private schools. Technical knowledge of almost any kind easily, quickly and thoroly implanted, by practical demonstration, into the minds of even the dullest pupils, without a high-salaried master to weary his scholars and disgust himself by trying to teach "dry" subjects to uninterested ears. There is an attraction about moving pictures that chains the attention of otherwise unwilling observers. They will absorb by means of the picture show what they would not grasp by any other means.
And "dry" subjects apply as well to many adults as to the young. Until the coming of the picture show, the details and processes of any particular industry were as a sealed book to the majority of men. How many men, for instance, with trades and professions of their own, have any interest in the detailed workings of another fellow's business? Would they buy a book about it and sit down to study the pages of the text? Not likely. Would they attend classes to hear some expert explain the intricacies of that particular craft in detail? Absolutely, no.
But when it comes to watching a screen for seven or eight minutes, and thus imbibing in that brief period a practical knowledge of that particular industry, it ceases to be "dry" and becomes a welcome entertainment.
Moving pictures have their amusing side, and their thrilling side, in the rendering of photo dramas; their intense interest in their presentation of scenes of travel in foreign lands; but their greatest triumph, and their best and most permanent feature, the one that enhances their value to humanity most, is the ease with which they demonstrate and teach, literally "while you wait," the details of vast industrial undertakings in the mechanical and textile worlds.
"The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first; analysis afterward." — Beecher.