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English: Still from the American drama film The Street Called Straight (1920) with Charles Clary, on page 8 of the June 1920 Moving Picture Age. The caption states: "When the consequences of what he has done rise up in the night to threaten him, this is what Henry Guion sees. But in his mind there is no thought of those he has wronged or of what their plight might be."

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Title: Moving Picture Age (1920)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: motion pictures
Publisher: Class Publications, inc.
Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

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do that very thing. But they are notmaking any great amount of noise about it before theyare readv to deliver the goods. Foreign Use of the Screen The stereopticon and moving picture screen and thewall picture have been found to be one of the best meansof Christianizing the women of the Orient, according toreports received from American foreign missionaries bythe Interchurch World Movement. The value of the pictorial feature of evangelistic:work in the Orient lies in the fact that it enables mis-:sionaries to reach the women who cannot read or writeand 90 per cent of oriental women are said to be illit-erate. Moreover, the best subjects are the old Biblicalpictures because they need little explanation, their set-tings and costumes corresponding with the scenes towhich the women of the East are accustomed. This;sense of familiarity overcomes the feeling that Chris-:tianity is an alien religion, imported from a country ofwhich they know nothing. ■. MOVING PICTURE AGE June, 1920 to ^ o
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lun -a IS20 OCLB461584 MOWG PICTURE AGE REEL AND SLIDE EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL VOL. Ill JUNE, 1920 No. 6 The Moving Picture Moves in the Realm of the Spirit and the Truth The Street Called Straight Leads to the House Beautiful; and There Are Lights Along the Way, Is the Mes-sage of This Screen Story of the Spirit of One Man Which Was in Him By Jerome Lachenbruch THE task of making the world a better place in which to livehas, from time immemorial, been left to a large extent inthe hands of our ordained spiritual advisers. Custom hasdecreed that through the blamelessness of their lives, theyshould set an example for others to follow. In other days, thepreachers of righteousness through self-immolation and various otherforms of asceticism sought to prepare themselves for their difficultand subtle work. They thought that by flagellating the body, the

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