Moving Picture Age (1920) . Cross is operating. Moving picture operating as a profession is finding great favorwith students at the Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men atFourth avenue and Twenty-third street, New York City. Thisschool was formerly maintained by the Red Cross and at the con-clusion of the war was turned over to private agencies, with agift from the Red Cross of $50,000. One hundred and seventeenhours of work at the institute and 110 hours study at home arerequired for the course. To obtain a municipal license, from threeto eight weeks additional work is necessary. Nineteen
Moving Picture Age (1920) . Cross is operating. Moving picture operating as a profession is finding great favorwith students at the Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men atFourth avenue and Twenty-third street, New York City. Thisschool was formerly maintained by the Red Cross and at the con-clusion of the war was turned over to private agencies, with agift from the Red Cross of $50,000. One hundred and seventeenhours of work at the institute and 110 hours study at home arerequired for the course. To obtain a municipal license, from threeto eight weeks additional work is necessary. Nineteen men havefinished the course and all but two of these are holding jobs in NewYork City. Six others are now taking the work under JamesCameron, a dealer in motion picture equipment. The wages paid these graduates, all of them permanently dis-abled men, range from $35 a week up, but the union scale is muchhigher than $35. One man receives $75 a week. The work is notrecommended for men whose disability would prevent agility in. Moving picture projecting has proven a lucrative trade for the dis-abled man. Seventeen operators trained at the Institute for Crippledand Disabled Men are now holding good jobs in New York City. case of fire. Men with a partly disabled hand or who have lostone or two fingers prove as adept as whole men, although theirinfirmity perhaps hinders them from their former employment. The Red Cross is one of many welfare organizations in thecountry which are taking advantage of the popular taste for thecinema to bring their varied activities before the public. The RedCross, as a part of its enlarged peace-time activity, is preparing anation-wide organization of news camera men who shall be subjectto call at any time, to take moving pictures of Red Cross activitiesin case of disaster or other emergency in which this organizationplays a merciful part. More and better pictures will be made ofthe Red Cross work overseas, and it is expected that these attractive {Contin
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