"FROM MANGER TO CROSS."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 5

"FROM MANGER TO CROSS."

At the Town Hall, commencing on Boxing Ni,«lii, lliblical Uiogrnphs, -Limited, will present tho religious tilm, ".i'Vimi Manger to Cress," as produced i)v the Kalens Company in Egypt and Palestine. In the closing years «f tho ia.st century an eminent French artist, Louis Tisaot, inaclo the world richer by an elaborate, and painstaking, series, ol' pictures'of the Bible lands and the life of Christ. These pictures were the first attempt to link together those great, occasions which earlier artists had only depicted separately, as their admiration for'any particular occasion inspired thorn. Thanks to the great possibilities; of kincmatography, together with the ambition and enterprise of the Kalem Company, the history and art of the centuries have now been linked together in one chain, and with the true groundwork of original location and familiar surroundings, a picture live thousand feet in length illustrates that marvellous life, in which the whole world is interested, "From the Manger to the Cross." Such a graphic portrayal of tins great events of a past age must inevitably mark the beginning of a new era in the teaching of history. Some idea, of tho scope of the pictures may be had from the following incomplete list of the scenes and incidents shown. Starting at" Nazareth with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as a girl, the first elaborate setting is "The Annunciation." Tho pictures of tho Angel of God appearing, to Joseph in a. dream avo described as a triumph of moving picture photography. Then follows the scene showing Joseph and Mary being turned aw;av from tho inn and seeking shelter in tho stable cave, the, finding of the Babe lying in swaddling clothes in tho manger, the three Wise Men on their journey, tho I adoration of the shepherds, the Wise Men before' Herod, and the adoration of tho Magi. The flight of Joseph and the Child into. Egypt is depicted with wonderful realism. They are seen in the desert guarded' by the Sphinx. Then are shown Mary teaching tho ■ young Saviour, and the return to Nazareth. Tho Saviour is seen in tho Temple with the doctors, and tho foreshadowing of tho Cross is beautifully represented.' Tho ministry of tho Saviour is shown in a series of remarkable scenes, including ono of John the Baptist discerning the Saviour from afar, a fino piece of dramatic representation. Tho conspiracy against the Saviour, tho Lord's Supper, tho First Communion, tho agony in ihoGardcn, tho remorse of Judas, the Saviour before Pilate, and the dramatic scenes leading up to tho crucifixion are all wonderfully realistic. 13v portraying the storv of the Saviour's life in His own land the motion picture camera has at last, in tho photographic sense at lca/it, realised the dream which, for 2000 years has stirred men to every form of artistic effort. . ■■.■.'