VICAR’S CINEMA
SUNDAY SHOWS FOR CHILDREN.
Cinema shows for his Sunday School arc being given weekly at the vicarage at. Ruckland Dinham, near Frome, Somerset, by the vicar, the Rev. H. S. Pugh. “When I came across a. cinematograph machine which, would take small films, easily portable, the manufacturers of which had a small catalogue of film stories, chiefly events in the life of our Lord, 1 bought it,” Mr Pugh said.
“The first. Sunday I invited my small Sunday school into the kitchen, and my wife and t showed the storv of the Good Samaritan, a film of 1201'1. The children refused to leave until they had had the story again. Then their parents asked me to show it for them.” Besides religious films Mr Pugh shows the children Douglas Fairbanks, Felix the Cat, and “Our Gang” films. He also presents swimming, tennis, and cricket pictures and gives the children natural history and geography lessons on the screen.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1933, Page 8
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