Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 25, 1913

Motion Pictures

BUT few have any idea as to the hold which this amusement craze has upon millions of people throughout the country. A writer in the Congregationalist, Edwin W. Bishop, D. D., furnishes some statistics which he has gathered. While there are 1,400 theaters in the United States, there are 10,000 places where motion pictures are presented.

In one Western city a canvass of 10,000 families showed that representatives from 6,653 attended moving-picture shows. In another city containing forty-eight motion-picture halls, there was a daily attendance of 35,000. In one town 5,813 children were canvassed, and of these 3,892 were found to be regular attendants at moving pictures.