Headline
Kinema and the Church: Bishops in Judgment
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1920-03-25
- Publication Year
1920
Page
2
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
The Blue Bird
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Actors
Tula Belle
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Writer
Maurice Maeterlinck (play)
Country
USA
Released
1918-03-31
Runtime
75 min
Genre
Family
Language
None
Plot
Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the...
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Not Rated
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
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Actors
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Director
Herbert Brenon
Writer
Herbert Brenon (scenario by)
Country
UK
Released
1918-05-01
Runtime
66 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His arrival marks a change in the lives of all...
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Summary
An article about the Church Pictorial Movement, for reaching large mass by using kinema into English villages. Its motor-vans, conveying projectors, dramatic films, the screen, and the operators, are on the road in Somerset and Gloucester each week, on regular circuits. There were both advantages and disadvantage for the Church by using new technology. Maeterlinck's 'Blue Bird,' and Sir Johnson [sic] Forbes-Robertson's 'The Passing of the Third Floor Back,' were mentioned as examples.
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