That marvel - the movie : a glance at its reckless past, its promising present, and its significant future (1923)

THE MOVIE'S NEW SIGNIFICANCE 9 National Education Association, the speaker presented facts and figures demonstrating the marvellous progress made of late by the motion-picture as a medium for instruction in both schools and colleges. He said: To reflect on the possibilities of the motion-picture in education is to regret that one's school days were spent before this great invention came to us as a poultice to heal the blows of ignorance, but there is consolation in the fact that since the advent of pictures the whole world, regardless of age, can go to school. "Regardless of age" — yes, and, also, regardless of race, language, inherited or acquired prejudices, and the hot passions that result in man's inhumanity to man. In other words, the human race may now sit before a screen and learn through the universal medium of the eye those great truths that have been revealed to Frederick Palmer by the vivid flashes of the battle-field. Dreams, you say? Generalities? A vision that begets nothing but vain hopes? Suppose, then, that we make a concrete suggestion that, should it arouse interest and create discussion, might result eventually in giving to what you call "airy nothings" a "local habitation and a name." The insuperable obstacle that has prevented heretofore the establishment somewhere upon earth of a university designed