Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion pictures have revivified the writer of circus showhills. Once again the family may crowd joyously about the lamp, eyes agog, to read the English language written with a flamboyancy that thrills the dullest. Poor Barnum's "Stupendous and Unparalleled Aggregation of Freaks" fades before this advertisement in a New York Sunday paper...
...great value of the motion picture as an educational medium has long been recognized but very little used. There are very few reels in existence which are of true educational value and yet sufficiently interesting so as not to bore the audience to tears. The Yale authorities, however, have decided to go into competition with the "vamp", and not allow the great possibilities of the cinema to any longer go to waste...
...solution will be eagerly awaited by all educators. If the producers should find it necessary to cover each historical incident with a sugar coating of story (with hero, heroine, 'u' everything) and label it "drama", many would not be surprised. Be that as it may, the use of the motion picture in schools as part of the regular instruction, is bound ere long to become widespread. Yet who would have predicted, a few years ago, that boys and girls would soon be sitting before the silver sheet as unwillingly as they now start at their "'rithmetics" and "'gografies...
...greatest menace to the drama is the motion picture", declared Mr. Eaton, "The country is getting for their entertainment something devoid of any appeal to their intelligence, which develops no serious though but is sated with surface and artificial emotionalism. The moving picture censorship cannot eradicate the underlying immorality of the silver sheet. It is just the 'movies'. Taking a different view-point, statistics show that children who regularly attend the movies invariably show less ability in their classroom work than those who don't make a regular practice of attending. They exhibit less power of concentration and often become...
...cannot crush the creative instincts of men. They are bound to get it in their pleasure or leisure hours, and it is a question whether they are going to get it by the cheap, false, artificial motion-picture, or through the more elevated medium of the drama...