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The Motion Picture and the Lecturer
By STANLEY W. TODD
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The Motion Picture has come to the rescue of the lecturer, who finds that his stereopticon no longer attracts the throng it did in the days when Moving Pictures were unknown. The falling-off in attendance at the free public lectures may be largely attributed to Motion Picture shows. At the little theater, for a nominal price of admission, the people may enjoy two hours of virile, constantly changing scenes. They go not alone to be amused, but also to be instructed. Tho they are willing to learn, they refuse to be bored. They object to prosy and uninteresting talks on subjects which are in themselves tedious and dry. As a result, they prefer the little Motion Picture theater around the corner, to the free lecture hall.
That is not a fact for commiseration. Many lecturers have seen the light. They have found there is nothing that can take the place of the Motion Picture in vitalizing a talk on travel or on any other topic. The greatest orator in the world cannot describe a scene in a foreign land with the effectiveness of the moving film. There is no affectation or stage or climax in the views from other lands. The audience at the lecture is given a glance thru a wonderful telescope, which can bring to their view, time and time again, the same identical scene. The foreigners seem to be looking into the vale at their
future audiences. Events now in past history can thus be recalled from the great Motion Picture text-book at any time. Rapidly changing scenes are what the people demand. Any lecture can be made doubly interesting with the aid of the Motion Picture.
And what is the result of such an innovation? The great popularity of ''travelogs" and "travel talks' ' is the best answer. Motion Pictures, announced as a feature or an incidental, will assure an overwhelming attendance, where otherwise a slim audience would be a certainty. The people hunger after knowledge — those who attend lectures. But the knowledge they get thru the Motion Picture, which is nothing more than a mirror to nature, by far exceeds that which they can secure thru the stereopticon picture and the lecturer's necessarily poor description of sights and scenes it is the function of the Motion Picture to present. No better evidence of this can be desired than the proved ability of Moving Pictures to attract just those people who have so often been bored by poor "still" pictures and tiresome lecturer— and have kept away ever since. The Motion Picture is in reality nothing more than a wonderful implement in the hands of the men who can now realize its possibilities. It is for the educator and the lecturer really more than it is for the showman.
Mother Goose Up to Date
By LILLIAN MAY
'Mistress Mary, quite contrary, Will you to the opera go?"
Said Mistress Mary, quite contrary, "I prefer the Photoshow."
'Mistress Mary, quite contrary, Why do you like that best?"
'Because it cheers and entertains And gives your purse a rest."
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Mistress Mary, quite contrary, You're just the girl for me;
I'll be the luckiest man alive If you my wife will be !"
Said Mistress Mary, quite contrary "I'll name our wedding day,
If you will take me every night To see a Photoplay."