Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Wonders and Possibilities in The Motion Picture Show. [ARTICLE]

Wonders and Possibilities in The Motion Picture Show.

Hammond Times. a The moving picture show is coming in for considerable amount of discussion lately. For a nickel- you can now ride through the streets of Paris, see a king crowned, travel in the New York subway, be in a storm at sea, follow the pope in the gardens of the Vatican, watch the hunter in the African jungles, scale an Alpine peak, and witness a battleship in action. In three hours one can go through the whole gamut of Shakespeare, and men of a score of nationalities can take in the pictures and each can understand them. From them we can learn what they do and how they live in Berlin, Pekin or Tampico as no book ever told us, life in the western world, views from an airship, steamships, railways. What ft the motion films can do in ten minutes takes a regular theatre nearly three hours in its presentation df the drama. Even the living microscopic world is brought to view. Over in India, in Siam and in the Philippines the natives are just as much taken up with the motion films and its opportunities. They get true glimpses of the rest of the world as it is.

Some day the schools of America will make motion films a part of the daily curriculum. We hope to see the day when geography will be taught with the film. What students of Shakespeare, or even of Caesar’s commentaries would not understand Macbeth or some Roman scenes the better for having witnessed their portrayal on the motion picture film. The motion picture offers great opportunities and its merits as an educator are of the first order.