CINEMA SERMONS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14782, 27 September 1913, Page 16

CINEMA SERMONS.

NOVEL PLAN , BY VANCOUVER. METHODISTS.

The decision of the Methodists of Vancouver to have a missionary movincpicture theatre of their own, controlled by a company with a capital of 100.000 dnllarv. and with a registered office, at Toronto, is exciting interesting com-

ment and some prophetic outbursts from the Canadian Press.

One influential journal armies that, since ono moving picturo-theatro cannot live unto itself alone, but must have new k< ts of films weekly, which it must sharv with other theatres, si chain of such Methodist places of instruction must be spread t!irou;_;li ail the principal eitier, of the Dominion. The next development, it is predicted. is that individual clnirches all over tho Dominion will secure moving picture machines of their own. The chief dilliculty hitherto has been that of .securing suitable films, mo.st of the inanufactJirinjC companies at present not deeming: it worth wiiilo to cater tpecially for this class of business. A Alothodist official is. however, to come to Kii<j;iand forthwith to negotiate with liLm manufacturers and missionary societies, so a.s to obtain a continuous service of films for the Vancouver and other theatres and churches. When Methodism has thus established its chains of theatres it will require a force of macliinemeii in heathen lands taking exclusive pictures, and so, as the journal in question .says, ''soon 'from Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand' will be heard the whirr of the 'movie' machine." Iμ addition to mi.-s.ionary pictures the aim of the orfvniisers >- s to have at, times illustrated lectures on matters of genera! inteiv-l. including narratives of travellers and noted workers in various departments •:>f public life. Tho prop;vamme will, indeed, include everything of an uplifting antl educational value.