Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

REEL and SLIDE 23 ^^For Community Service'' Community Motion Picture Bureau The Community Motion Picture Bureau, with an organization extending from the Pacific coast to the American lines in France, offers its services to schools, churches,, clubs — all organizations interested in developing community life. For years its programs have been used in courses presented for widely differing purposes : instruction, recreation, propaganda. The Community Center, the Chautauqua, the Boys' Club, the school, the Women's Club, the church, the Y. M. C. A., are using the Bureau and its courses in carrying out their many-sided plans. We are serving many such groups. How can we serve you? Do you wish to present pictures which will teach history, science, literature, geography, sanitation, civic development, patriotism? Do you Avish to organize specific propaganda on any of these or any of countless other subjects? Do you wish to provide recreation that entertains and at the same time is thoroughly wholesome? Tell us what is in your mind. We then organize the course of pictures which will develop your ideas and carry out your wishes. We build courses expressed in terms of motion pictures. Notice we say "courses." We are not interested in single "shows." We are not amusement brokers. Yes, we supply the films also, but what we sell you is our service. Furnishing the films is no more an essential part of the service than is running the college book store part of the function of the college dean. Why can we do this work for you better than you can do it for yourself? For two reasons among others: We know community needs. We have been studying these needs for years. On our staff are experts trained in the concrete sociology of Community Service. Second, we know the resources of the screefi. We have viewed, studied, analyzed thousands of film subjects. Our staff is in constant touch with all the current releases. We know film literature, what it teaches and preaches and where the best screen treatises on any subject can be found. We can, therefore, adapt to the service of the community the resources of the screen. We are experts in our field. In all your personal or group activities, from plumbing to preaching, you call upon the expert for his service. You should do no less in directing this specialized activity. What will it cost? We adapt the service to your budget. Be sure of one thing, however ; it will cost you no more if you undertook to do the work yourself. Moreover, if your treasury happens to be empty, we can show you how the enterprise can pay its own way. The Bureau is not a film agency — as that term is ordinarily understood — hecause its services are based on a knowledge of the entire field of motion pictures, because it exercises uncommon care and diligence in studying the requirements of widely varying clients, and because its facilities and affiliations are nation-wide. Write us. We have no canned courses to offer. The fundamentals of our service are standardized, but each community problem is studied independently. Tell us your needs. We will tell you how we can help. Warren Dunham Foster, President Just a Word About Our Camp Work We will say more about it another time, but did you know that the full, exclusive responsibility of supplying film to the Y. M. L. A. m Its camp work, here and in France, is in the hands of the Community Motion Picture Bureau? The Boston Herald says this is a task which "breaks records in the motion picture business." On February 15, we were circulating 8,000,000 feet a week in the camps. And Lee Hanmer, Esq., of the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, says that the "service has been one hundred per cent efficient." A New and Better Weekly The Community Motion Picture Bureau now issues each week The World Today — In Motion Pictures, in which , ^ , , 'are collected the best o± the motion pictures of current events ot our troops in training here and abroad of the distinguished personalities and the war activities among our allies; in short, of the striking events and the interesting figures of this critical, even memorable period through which we are passing. The World Today— In Motion Pictures circulates widely in the camps. As nothing is too good for the soldiers, prospective subscribers may be sure that great care is taken to make The World Today— In Motion Pictures interesting, effective, significant. Much of the material is drawn from the films taken by official government photographers of France, England and the United States Each issue of The World Today— In Motion Pictures takes a half hour or more for exhibition. It is thus about twice the length of the ordinary "news weekly," and allows ample scope for the full depiction of striking topics The selecting and editing of the material is in the hands of trained journalists and film experts. The World Today— In Motion Pictures IS not a casual by-product, but a concentrated effort to picture the times with the choicest work of hundreds of devoted and energetic cinematographers. Write for terms and sample programs. Film Production The Community Motion Picture Bureau is prepared to apply the resources of its personnel and equipment to the making of highgrade motion pictures for corporations and for private clients. The possibilities of the motion picture in instruction, in industrial and civic betterment, in publicity, in the recording of cherished events, and in many other direc'^ tions not contemplated by those who know oply the theatrical "movies," are only beginning to be realized. If you have an idea that the interest nearest your heart can be furthered by a motion picture, let us, with no cost or obligation on your part, confer with you. COMMUNITY MOTION PICTURE BUREAU 46 West 24th Street, New York City Other Offices in Boston, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, San Antonio, San Francisco