Moving Picture Age (1920) . every phase of slide making, from taking the picturewhich later becomes a slide, to labeling and cataloging the fin-ished product, is carried on by workers of the department. Ex-pert photographers visit mission fields in every part of the UnitedStates, Canada, Mexico, South America, Australia and Europe, to obtain striking photographs of missionary activities and picturesof the conditions missionaries must meet in various lands. Mis-sionaries, too, send the best of the pictures they gather of familylife and native customs in the countries they serve. To the manin th
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Moving Picture Age (1920) . every phase of slide making, from taking the picturewhich later becomes a slide, to labeling and cataloging the fin-ished product, is carried on by workers of the department. Ex-pert photographers visit mission fields in every part of the UnitedStates, Canada, Mexico, South America, Australia and Europe, to obtain striking photographs of missionary activities and picturesof the conditions missionaries must meet in various lands. Mis-sionaries, too, send the best of the pictures they gather of familylife and native customs in the countries they serve. To the manin the field heathenism is real. To the average Sunday schoolscholar in America it is a remote abstraction for which an occa-sional collection is taken. The missionary has seen missionaryreclamation in action. He knows it works. The church andSunday school worker must be shown. The stereopticon showsthem. The department has in process of making over 400 sets ofslides to be used for renting to churches and religious organizations. This camel and his rider apparently are at sea in a sea of sand inthe inidst of an African desert. throughout the country. Special sets have been made for inter-church conferences and meetings. Over 300 sets have been manu-factured for one co-operating board, and other boards are alsobeing furnished with desirable lectures. The subjects are asvaried as the countries from which the pictures come. The surveys are taken up by fields. The life of the citydweller and the child of the slums is pictured for the luckierbrother or sister in the rural districts. Likewise the city child willhave a chance to see the child of the rural districts among hishome surroundings. Church conditions, industrial scenes and childlife in every land, exploits of various faiths and religions, nativelife and missionary endeavor—all these form part of the great col-lection. The laboratory in which this growing enterprise is being car-ried on is one of the best equipped in New York Ci