Moving Picture Age (1920) . in definite action by the fact that there are notmany photoplays of this sort available for educational workin our schools. Churches throughout the country, throughwhich much good could be disseminated by the screenmedium, are practically without films to supplement Sundayschool work. A movement of nationwide importance has been launchedby the American Library Association, an organization composed ofmore than 4,000 librarians. Through this peace time enlarged pro-gram, the association purposes to promote good reading and uni-versal self-education through books and l
Moving Picture Age (1920) . in definite action by the fact that there are notmany photoplays of this sort available for educational workin our schools. Churches throughout the country, throughwhich much good could be disseminated by the screenmedium, are practically without films to supplement Sundayschool work. A movement of nationwide importance has been launchedby the American Library Association, an organization composed ofmore than 4,000 librarians. Through this peace time enlarged pro-gram, the association purposes to promote good reading and uni-versal self-education through books and libraries by creating apublic sentiment that will adequately support existing libraries andcause others to be established where none now exist. To carryout this project a fund of $2,000,000 is being raised, not by anintensive drive or campaign, but by personal efforts of the librarians,library trustees and friends of libraries. This endeavor will havea direct bearing upon moving pictures, for it will stimulate reading Story. The Traveling Library, one method of making , is stated, are prowess, than the virile Washington or the human Lincoln fashion-ng the history of our country? The stage has long been a factorn educational work, but the stage play is limited in its scope as good books accessible to some of the sixty millions of persons who, itpractically without public libraries. and in turning to books the public naturally will select such ma-terial with which it is familiar. Those books which have been{Continued on page 12) 12 MOVING PICTURE AGE Tune, 1920 Film Story of Mr. Noun, Miss Pronoun andOther Inhabitants of Grammar Row By Alice Ward Bailey You ask how the film, Mr. Noun and Miss Pronoun, hap-pened. Happened is the word, for from the time that it was toldas a story five years ago, to a little girl puzzling over her parts ofspeech, through its carefer as a chalk talk with Carl Rawson, thena cartoonist, now a successful portrait painter and artist, throughits incorporat
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