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The Photoplay

CHAPTER XI
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Leading educators have joined in endorsing the foundation of a Universal Culture Lyceum.

The plan is to make and circulate moving pictures for the education of the youth of the land, picture studies in science, history, religion, literature, geography, biography, art, architecture, social science, economics and industry.
From this Lyceum "schools, churches and colleges will be furnished with motion pictures giving the latest results and activities in every sphere capable of being pictured." But, however much may be achieved by such conscious efforts toward education, the far larger contribution must be made by the regular picture houses which the public seeks without being conscious of the educational significance.

The teaching of the moving pictures must not be forced on a more or less indifferent audience, but ought to be absorbed by those who seek entertainment and enjoyment from the films and are ready to make their little economic sacrifice.
The purely intellectual part of this uplift is the easiest.

Not only the news pictures and the scientific demonstrations but also the photoplays can lead young and old to ever new regions of knowledge.

The curiosity and the imagination of the spectators will follow gladly.


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