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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
PICTURE-WRITING ON ROCK NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR
We all know how dearly children love pictures. From earliest infancy they crave them. They will have no hooks that do not contain pictures. Why? Because pictures tell a story and because they call on the imagination to add w hat the lines of the picture do not show. Anything that does not appeal to the imagination is not interesting, and it is perhaps not even artistic. When the child sees a picture, its mind goes to work to explain and describe that picture. A n i ma Is cannot do this. I have Beveral limes taken my dog into a Motion Picture theater and tried to gel aim interested. I have doI succeeded. A still picture, "i even a Moving Picture, means aothing t<> an animal, because they do ool arouse its imagination. It baa -in imagination. Once, when a Motion Picture was being shown in which a dog was runDing ab0Ul it \\;is
K ;i I em fB " Primitive M ;i n " . m y .I o g pricked up his ears, ran down to the Bcreen
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and barked. But as soon as the pictured dog disappeared, my dog lost all interest.
Now, as children love to see pictures, they also love to make pictures. They like to imitate, to represent, the things around them, or objects that they have pictured in their minds. Doubtless they have tried, hundreds of times, to picture things in motion also, but this they could not do. They can draw a bird, but they cannot make the bird fly. Seeing this, others have tried to satisfy this desire for motion pictures, and for many years the toy-makers and hookpublishers have invented numerous devices to please the insatiate thirst of the child-mind. I have made some little research to find some o\' the more important of these. Thru the kindness of Mr. Harry R. Torr. of Number 664 Eighteenth Street, Brooklyn, I am able to tell you of one of the most interesting and unique
of these "Moving Picture books." It was made in Germany about thirty years ago,. and sent to the then little Barry as a present. Unlike most
boys. Barry preserved this book, and it is still his proud possession and is the delighl of his children. Mr. Torr be3 it is the only book o\' its kind in
existence, and that