The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1914)

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MOTION I'K'Tf'RE MAGAZINE It was oddly impassive — the one who has reached the outermost pita of torture, and is for all time hence immune. "Gordon," he athl( BSly, "Mrs. Cordon lias i.,,1 my boy my boy— oh, Gordon, in the name of heaven, dont be donl turn on me, 1 know your ranee may be a righteous one, l»ut •;int do this thing, Gordon — it's my boy, my little boy " >rdon looked Barris keenly between the eyes; then he met the stricken gaze of the poor mother, Whose mute lips had not uttered a sound since the news came. A life was ebbing out — that life the one responsible for the loss of his little girl. He was a doctor, with the high call of his profession at his back — a life to be saved, no matter whose that life might be — a life to be saved — and the honor of his name. His love was gone, wiped clean from the slate ; but his honor, the purchase price of which no one could gauge, remained. He lifted his head. The man was gone — the physician remained — the healer of men's bodies made potent by the victory of soul. "Ill go, Harris," he said — "please God we'll save him yet." Journalism Taught by the " Movies" Motion Picti res were pu1 to a new educational use recently, when they Were introduced into the School of Journalism a1 Columbia University in New York ( 'it v. as rmanenl means of instructing the a in reporting actual events and, I '\l\ thus, tih, is are tO he used which show events of local or Distal importance, such as a reporter • with in his everyday [1 is planned to hold these on Picture b1 quently, which all the students in the Bchool I to attend. When the t.» the school's "city room" and write up their i;mit. it is hoped to pul the ilty of t! j0UP. t in It lent was sent out on an assignment the instructor had no way to learn whether important facts were omitted or whether certain facts were exaggerated, if not falsified, unless an account of the same event happened to appear in the daily newspapers. It was to remedy this that Motion Pictures were adopted, for now the instructors can become familiar with all the facts of the story, and thus check up tin1 students' stories. It is also hoped that the Motion Picture will give the students an opportunity to write graphically and accurately under pressure. The faculty realized that one of the greatest difficulties in reporting quickly happening events was to preserve in the story the proper perspective and sequence of events, especially it" written under excitement. By using .Motion Pictures the faculty thinks it sees a solution of this problem. The tirst series of pictures shown was on the Balkan War, which gave the students an opportunity to act as war correspondents.