Excerpt from Educational Film Magazine, Vol. 3: January 1920 Until recently there was considerable objection from many local motion picture exchanges to giving co-opera tion to parishes and community agencies desiring to rent feature film The introduction of motion picture plays in parish halls was considered as an encroachment upon the legitimate theatrical field, and as such was originally opposed as unwelcome competition. This situation has changed, however and now wide-awake exhibitors will give their first releases to any parish or organization that is able to pay the same rental price that the regular theatrical houses are required to pay. It should be understood that as the age of a picture increases its rental price decreases. Complete programs vary in price from twenty dollars to fifty dollars a day and upwards. The types Of production include dramas of many varieties - costume, detective, fairy, historical, melodrama, society, western, romance, and others. Comedy pictures likewise cover a wide range, the best known being the straight Slapstick, farce, cartoon and burlesque comedies. Aside from these types of motion pictures there are the serial photoplays, travel pictures, scenics, industrials, news weekly, magazine features, and several others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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