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Webster sends Addams a pamphlet on The World's Peace Film Co. which details the company's officers and its plan to create films to promote world peace. It also describes how people can invest in the company to make a profit.
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Addams criticizes the film Birth of a Nation as unjust and untrue and designed to foster race prejudice.
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Addams promises to send Wales more folders with argumentative content. Addams also responds to a suggestion offered by Wales in previous correspondence and has enclosed a poem from a soldier.
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Holt asks Addams to seek Henry Ford's financial help to producing a moving picture on Peace.
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Holt had sent Addams a copy of her play, which Addams cannot fund or send on to Ford, as Holt had hoped.
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Lindsay discusses authors and photoplays with Addams.
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Lindsay thanks Addams for sending her book, and hopes to meet her in Chicago soon.
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Karsten regrets that the Woman's Peace Party cannot fund the production of a photoplay on peace and suggests others who might.
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Addams discusses the value of the cinema and the settlements to educate immigrants and help them adjust to American life.
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Addams discusses the value of the cinema and the settlements to educate immigrants and help them adjust to American life.
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Several filmed outtakes of Jane Addams discussing the history of settlements and the work that they do with a group of children. Click this link to view the video, which comes from a 35mm nitrocellulose negative. The film is hosted by the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collection. A reference card about the clip is also attached.