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BY SHOWING THE PROCESSES OF INDUSTRY THROUGH A COMPLETE CYCLE OF THEIR MOTIONS IN ACTUAL OPERATION

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ONE FILM FROM A REEL THAT SHOWS THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF HATCHING AND FEEDING OSTRICH CHICKS. THE PICTURES OF THIS SERIES ARE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN IN THE COLORS OF NATURE

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By courtesy of the Vitagraph Company of America A SCENE FROM A TALE OF TWO CITIES"

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A DRAMATIZATION OF DICKENS'S ROMANCE AND ONE OF THE LONGEST MOTION PICTURE PLAYS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED, FOR ITS PRESENTATION REQUIRES ABOUT AN HOUR

men the causes and prevention of wrecks; English social welfare workers have exhibited a reel emphasizing the folly of violence in strikes; the Michigan State Guards have gained many recruits by explaining in pictures the necessity and value of the militia. Indeed, the advocate for or against armies and state militia finds ready all the ammunition he can possibly use. On the market are thousands upon thousands of feet of army manœuvres, drills, military methods of ridding a country of disease, and pictures of military schools that might be used profitably by all teachers of soldiers; and there are enough realistic views of the horrors of the recent Turkish and Italian wars to gain thousands of converts for the peace

movement.

Information was formerly measured by the page; it may soon be computed by the foot. One motion picture firm is sending out letters announcing that it has in stock ten thousand feet of architecture, thirty thousand feet of science, and ninety thousand feet of geography.

The pictures are making information cheaper and more easily obtained than ever before in the world's history. Indeed, through several agencies it is literally being given away. The Northern Pacific Railway Company has spent thousands of dollars showing by motion pictures the geography, resources, industries, and possibilities of the country through which the road passes, and the Great Northern Railway is preparing for the same spreading or "unrolling" of facts. Marshall Field

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A NEW WAY OF TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY

THE STORY OF THE BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR RETOLD IN MOTION PICTURES THAT BRING TO THE EYE THE LIFE AND ACTION AS WELL AS THE COSTUMES AND EQUIPMENT OF THE MEN WHO FOUGHT

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A VITAL REPRODUCTION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF MUCH OF THE HISTORICAL DETAIL OF ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR

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