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Show THE MOTION PICTURE'S PLACE IN THE WORLD'S WORK AND PLAY Motion picture arc to he a part of the curriculum of Yale The pictures will be shown before :he mining engineering classes of the Sheffield Scientific School, end will illustrate the process of getting ore from a mine and the different changes it undergoes before it is finally ready for shipment These will he the first educational pictures shown in the State of Connecticut. "Were it not for the moving pictures," isid Daniel Prohman, "the wondrous art of Mmc Sarah Bernhardt, the glory of the present age would be unknown, except ex-cept from the printed page, to our posterity. pos-terity. And the printed account of such things are of nlmo't no value I believe the time is not far distant when the motior: picture will be the universal teacher and a powerful influence in the schools of the world." Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson, of Ne,,r York City, docs not believe there is cause for the excessive fear of fire in motion picture theatres professed by some "There is little dangrr of fire," he savs, "in a moving picture theatre if properly constructed In fact, the or.ly real danger is to the operator The booth in which he works is so constructed con-structed thru een should his entire film go up in a l,lac and the lire get beyond h:- control, it would only be necessary for him to step outside and shut the door, aLowing the hre to burn iSielf oul f ) ' Dr T H Weisenberg, neurologist to the Philadelphia GeneraJ Hospital, has for the pa t five years availed himself of the cinemati graph for the study of nervous diseases. He has in that time accumulated over two miles of film showing the different symptoms of nervous diseases, the different gair, eon-VUlsions eon-VUlsions and spa-tus attend.uit on that form of disease. Dr Weisenberg think motion photography is at the present, sr.c! ill be een mr sn in the future, a wonderful factor in the diagnosis of epileptic spasms "In any con ! deration of the moving picture, says Henry J Brock, president of the Kineniacolor Company, 'one becomes be-comes lost in what at first seems a dream. The future of the moving picture is really beyond any definite idea " At a recent weekly luncheon ot clergymen clergy-men at Oakland, Cal , the Rev H A Jump said "The tinve will come when an up-to-date church working for the masses will have lo own a moving picture machine as surely as it has to own a pipe organ The moving picture is the cleanest clean-est form of indoor ammemeiit popular among the American people to-day. It is distinctly more ' uplif ting than the average audcillr programme or the average straight drama." Almost everv United States man-of-wer is now equipped with a motion pic-lure pic-lure outfit, and the reflections of the lilms give great delight to both enlwud men and ofh, er The outfits for the roost part are purchased ironi Wic profits of the canteens. Exhibitors and producers of motion pictures throughout the State of New York arc opp. sing a closed Sunday bill now pending in the Legislature L'nder penalty of $5W it forbids any "display of pn turev or views, stationary or moving. If this bill becomes law it would be as effective, if words mean anything, in losing up tlve N'ew York City Metropolitan Metro-politan Museum of Art as in closing up the motion picture theatre. Many motion pictures of work and scenes on the Panama Canal have been taken and exhibited Some of them were used to illustrate to Congressmen the need for additmn-d appropriations. L'nder direction of officials ol At National Na-tional Geographic Society there will be sent to the Isthmus a staff of morion picture photographer? whose task it will be to make pictures of the completing work on this giganttc task. |
