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FILMS—BY THE SUBJECT OR FOOT." It does good sometimes to castigate our friends as well as our enemies. Our editorial of last week has brought us a number of letters and particulars for which we have been asking since the first number of the Moving Picture World. Old birds are somtimes caught with chaff; but

if they escape, they are very chary of looking at it in the future. We now understand from the information in our possession, that films are sold by the subject, not by the foot length, in America. The general loss on the published figures are about 5 per cent, of the total, and this is caused by some portion of the film having to be cut out to comply. with American ideas and the public Published Saturday. Every censorship. For instance, a film comes over from Europe

The World Photographic PablisMng. Company, New York. of say 1,000 feet in length. The subject is superb, all Alfred H. Saandew, Editor. except a small portion (say of 30 to 40 feet) which de-

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The Cinematograph in By arrangement with Dr. Doyen, Science from whom we haw and Education. received the exclusive rights, we are now in a position to place before the surgical profession the cinematographic results of his labors. Particulars of his Ita Value la Surgical Demonstration!, operative sur gery, enumerated in special pamphlets for the consider* tion of the medical profession, with lists of films, By Charles Urban, F.Z.S., London, Eng-. instil ments, and stereoscopic fixed slides, are now being pre. Continued page pared, and will be forwarded to any from 342. member of the medi. cal profession on application, in America, to Kleine Perhaps this field is the most important of all. Surgi- Opti cal Company, Chicago, or New York. cal science is of no country, and pictures speak a uni- We cannot do better, in pointing ^ out the utility versal language. One of the most important parts of the of cinematography to modern science, man cite the training of a doctor is the witnessing of operations. The following extract from a lecture delivered by Dr. Doyen cinematograph now renders it possible to reproduce end- at the Intejrtiational Congress of Medicine, at lessly, under circumstances which permit of most close Madrid, in iqov "The first time I brought to your notice and leisurely study .scenes which formerly could only be the cinematograph as a method of teaching and witnessed in the operating theaters of our hospitals. demonstrating the technique of operative surgery was at the A great surgeon performs a difficult operation with per- meeting of the British Medical Association at Edinburgh fect success, and those who witness it cherish the mem- s^ in 1898. ory of that exhibition of skill as long as they live; but "Other demonstrations took place : In what of the enormous multitudes who have no opportuni- 1899 at Monaco, under the patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert ties of seeing it? Even of those who were privileged, the First, and again the same year at the University of many would wish to see it again, if only to imprint more Kiel, b? order of H.I.M. Emperor William the Second, and indelibly on their minds the way in which the work at thi International Congress of Gynecology at Amsterdam was done. ; at the International Congress of the Medical Press Major surgical operations which occur but at long in- at Paris, and at the Gynecological Society of London, in tervals are only seen in their entirety by perhaps half 1900; si the British Medical Association at Cheltenham, a dozen privileged surgeons who are near the operating in 1901; the Exhibition of Methods for the Advance of Medical table, and each of that half dozen is only able to con- Science at Berlin, where I centrate his interest on one phase of the operation was presented by the committee with a gold medal method, position, formation or growth under demonstra- for my new cinematograph and its use in the teaching of operative surgery, tion. Jt is impossible for him, under non-cinemato- is 1902 ; and in the same year at the Polytechnic Museum graphic conditions, to note all -the proceedings, and he at Moscow. These demonstrations, I say, have proved may never have another opportunity before a call in a beyond doubt the^value of this new method of teaching. similar direction is made upon his own proficiency. "My first demonstrations raised much criticism, be By means of the cinematograph the situation is re- in spite of it I have continued to advance my project. versed. Rare, difficult and delicate operations are re- "You will shortly be able produced for the enlightenment of students the world to judge for yourselves whether animated photography is of assistance in the over. Six thousand—sixty thousand—can now witness teaching of operative surgery. will see how the these demonstrations of professional genius, however com- You cinematograph fills up a gap that is noticeable in oth« plex, not once, for a few minutes, when the mind cannot methods of demonstration. fix all the important points, but repeatedly, until every detail is memorized. These rare major operations; which "One example will suffice. The least understood a student might wait years to see, are caught in every of all ray instruments is the ecraseur. You are abed phase by the camera and held for reference at any time. to see it used in the operations that I am going to throi screen. advant While the object of the cinematograph is to teach, it upon the You will better understand the can never demonstrate the whole field of surgery, and it ages and manipulation of this instrument in checking is therefor jpeserved for special procedures. In major hemorrhage by glancing at the moving picture for a f< operations, where every action cf the operating surgeon moments than by perusal of all the literature that I is premeditated and precise, every detail and maneuver published on the subject. You will see that the thi' that is not indispensible is suppressed, and only the more pedicle is reduced almost without effort to the thickni important parts of the operation are Ginematographically of the fibro cellular tissues in a few seconds, these tis: necessary. The rest can better be demonstrated by fixed alone resisting the enormous pressure of nea projections, photographs, or drawings. By use of the 2,000 kilos." cinematograph, the student may study the methods of "You must notice, also, that many hundreds of the greatest surgeons of all nations. may follow the details of an abdominal hysterotomy u; Dr_ Doyen (Paris) has for the past ten years applied the screen of the cinematograph, whereas only a ham cinematography to record tare and difficult surgical oper- can view the operation on the -living subject, and ations, and' claims that by carefully watching the films it majority of these imperfectly. is possible to see where time—^always of vast importance "It would appear from this that the cinemato] in major operations—can be saved. would be of great value in the course on operal My reason for quoting solely from Dr. Doyen's lectures surgery that all students should attend before enter is that his operations during the past eight years furnish the operating theater. In this way, overcrowding the only successful demonstrations of the adoption of the ampitheater would be avoided, and they would cinematography in operative surgery. longer hinder the surgeon without improving themseh* ".'. In so doing, I venture to ask of the British and other as is at present the case, since the majority see nothir* schools of surgery an unbiassed consideration of the sub- and those that do see have not sufficient knowledge ject. .The cases I am prepared to submit will, I hold, understand. coriclusively prove the usefulness of this means of record- "The cinematograph, will also "allow of the presei ing the major operations of our own surgeons.^ : - •- tion in documentary form of'the operations -of the ol ".

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 357 surgeons. How valuable it would be to see again to-day is not intended as an advertisement. We desire merely upon the screen the operations of Langenbeck the elder, to point to them as one example of work served to the of Volkmann, of Billroth, of Maison-Neuve, or of Pean. public in one form, which may be served up in another, The documents that we shall have henceforth will, thanks and possibly more effectual manner. cinematograph, allow the surgeon of the future to to the Incidentally we find this particular series of pictures theprogress achieved. judge better of drawn ,as regards proportions and shape, exactly suited point out "Allow me to one of the unexpected peculiar- to the shape of the ordinary cinematograph picture. the cinematograph : to the surgeon entrusts ities of who Assuming that we make this series the subject matter his operations it becomes a valuable master. It it with for a series of new comics, we might make the following to this marvellous instrument that I have been is thanks suggestions. The example before us is that entitled improve technique and eliminate all useless jble to my "The Burnt Cake Episode," A. D. 878, in which King manipulations. Alfred is coming in for retribution for having allowed the "Operate simply: the operation will be short, and cakes to burn during his thought wanderings about the success. crowned with offensive Danes. It needs but little imagination to con- "Make haste, but do not hurry; and remember, to ceive a good rendering of this subject, the pictures them- •he patient, time is life. selves providing the material and particular arrangement "The cinematograph has enabled me also to justify of the composition. The arrangements, however, may be the criticism nyself against that I operate too quickly." varied to suit any extension—Opening scene, kitchen in you shall see for yourselves Upon the screen whether the cottage of one Gurth, a swineherd; wife of Gurth ny movements are in any. way precipitate. busy making cakes ; presently the disguised King makes "The explanation of my speed is to be found in the his appearance, seeking temporary cover ; the housewife, act that everything is perfecly arranged and ordered, who extends sympathy and accommodation to the un- precision, n simplicity and and in reliance on method known visitor, evidently thinks one good turn deserves nstead of leaving anything to chance. another, and so requests that her unknown visitor shall "Were tardiness the principal factor in success, I give attention to the cooking operations whilst she, the vould say, 'Take your time : go slowly.' But it is entirely housewife, leaves the house for a few minutes. The itherwise. A long operation exhausts the patient by cakes are now in good order on the hearth, and Mrs. tbored and futile manipulation which bruises the tissues Gurth leaves. Alfred is soon absent minded and is fully devitalizes their repairing nd powers. absorbed in his* plans of operations against the trouble- "The cinematograph is within everybody's reach. To some -Danes. The cakes (of course, abnormally large) e professional man its management presents no diffi- are seen smoking and gradually becoming burnt. Enter lties. The indispensable one factor in the attainment Mrs.- Gurth, who after directing poor Alfred's attention f good results is the choice of a well-lighted operating to his neglect, reprimands him in a manner uncouth, to eater. say the least of it. The comicalities of the scene are Cotttinued.) (To be exaggerated in a manner best done by the cinematograph, so that what tradition fails to hand down to the present generation the ingenuity of the film maker thus provides. Hints to Film Manufacturers. The album about to be issued by the Morning Leader People not in the business are apt to think that the contains no less than 160 pictures, which surely provides uestion of new subjects for living pictures must be a mine of good things. Variations may be introduced by ne offering considerable difficulty and tax upon the working the ordinary lantern in conjunction with the igenuity of the film makers. This view appears also films. The original designs as they appeared in the be into ordinary lantern slides ) be shared by a few people in the trade, whose bump Morning Leader'may made f imagination is obviously very small. and colofed. These with their respective titles should lantern. As a matter of fact it needs but little reflection to see be projected on the screen from the ordinary t the world is teeming with subject matter for the Another way would be to copy the originals by reduction nematograph, and that the difficulty, if any exists lies to the cinematograph film picture. In this ;ase a small ore especially in arriving at a selection that shall please negative, cinematograph size, could be made. This e public and at the same time prove of more than could be placed in the ordinary cinematograph printing feet of positive film printed. ssing interest. To be more precise, it may be said that machine and about ten my a plot worked out and illustrated in other ways, The introductory piece of film would show the scene ould lend itself equally well for cinematograph treat- stationary and inanimate upon the screen, and when the ment. Thus, some of the excellent compositions evinced animated section followed the fixed picture would, the pictoral art, contained in magazines and other suddenly become animated. The staging of details and blications of our times, should serve as hints to the general surroundings should correspond as nearly as iker of films. A single picture in a book, however possible to the arrangements shown in the original verly designed, and however strong as regards sug- sketches. stion of life, cannot be compared with the animation Firms who have at their disposal the means for adding once possible in a cinematograph production; Yet speech and sound to their creations would do well to se necessarily inanimate pictures often contain sug- further embellish humors of history accordingly, so that : hons worthy of further development and enlargement. the funny sayings and the tongue at that time could also me of the comic journals abound with ideas capable be reproduced. application to the cinematograph.- As an example of In the above we have hinted at but one source from tonal humor eminently suited to the purpose indi- which new creations may be reissued with the fascinating ted, .one may mention the now celebrated series of element of apparent life. We leave to the reader's rtoons issued by the Morning Leader, under the title imagination the working out in detail of new additions Humors of History." These screamingly funny of cinematograph science as may be applied to other, **ave Proved so popular- that the publishers have already published pictures of the inanimate class.—The i -a !f '"ided to reissue them in an album and in colors. This Kitxematograph and Lantern Weekly. 358 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD.

on the left-hand side to match the entrance on the right. It»» be artistically decorated in white and gold. The picture will fc thrown diagonally across the rear half and fine opera cham arranged so that those sitting in can them see all the pictura without any obstruction. A large number of electric fans are to be added, which will reduce the temperature of both the kt cream parlor and theater to about 65 degrees. Work on the* changes will be started and rushed to completion.' When finished, Keith's Korner will be the most unique and the most modes place entertainment, the only in of and place the South where you can sit and enjoy a high-class show while eating dais? Nicholas Power, of Cameragraph fame, has incorporated his refreshments. business, with a capitalization of $250,000. The offices and fac- *.* * tory will not be changed, the only alteration being the name, all the discoveries inventions which in future will be Nicholas Power Co. (Inc.). Of marvelous and of the la * * * quarter of a century none are more remarkable than the phonograph and the moving picture machine, the one reproducing The rumor that the Actograph Co. is about to disband is not b the eye the living scenes of activity and the correct They have just concluded a lease for the whole of the human other tot; ear all the varied sounds that the busy world presents first floor of No. 50 Union Square, New York, where they pur- to the sense of man. At first both were crude and unsatisfactory, pose taking pictures of special subjects, and the better to cope attract- ing attention only because of their apparent impossibility. with their growing business as film renters, exhibitors and cine- Ba time has seen "wonderful progress, especially matographers, for which -they are concluding some good con- with the "phono- ' graph. The latest machines put upon the market are tracts for the coming season. The personnel of the company capable of reproducing all the modulations of the human voice to consists of old stagers in the business and is composed of E. M. such 1 degree of perfection that it would be hard to discriminate Harrington, N. H. Mosher and A. C. Hayman, the latter taking betwea the original and the reproduction. moving pictures the place of Fred Beck, whom the company bought out. The hare made progress, but having been more perfect from the start a their simulation of nature, the less marked development Savannah, Ga., sends the following "straw": Owing to the leaves them still the equal of the phonograph. So far these two inven- impossibility of obtaining suitable talent, it has been found neces- tions have been operated, each by itself, but now serious sary to discontinue the vaudeville shows at the Casino for lie efforts are being made to combine the effect of the two. balance of the season. The management, however, realizing that As each approaches perfection the possibilities .involved in the public desires some form of amusement during this portion such a combination become greater. Before long we should have both the of the year, has arranged to furnish an entertainment consisting sight and the attendant sounds reproduced in such a realistic of the very best class of moving pictures obtainable, with which manner as to well-nigh deceive the mind into the belief that it is there will be interspersed illustrated songs. The show will last actttaDj in the midst of the scene being presented. Within a few yean about one hour and fifteen minutes and in offering it to the we shall be able to enter the opera house and, taking a seat among patrons of the Casino it is done with the confidence that it will crowd, watch or singer, meet with their entire approval. the Caruso some other great step a * * * the stage and listen to him as he pours forth his rich tones, the music being accompanied by the gestures and facial expression Canandaigua.—The moving picture theater established by of the singer, when all the while the musician is fit Schenectady men, but which has never been opened because a himself away in New York or Paris. The greatest operas will be see license was refused, has been bought by Canandaigua men, who and heard with all the accompaniment of stage effect given i: expect to get a license at the next meeting of the village board. the great playhouses, and at a cost that would place the worlcTi greatest music within the reach of the poorest laborer. And J. J. Bolton, of Elmira, N. Y., is to return to Wilkesbarre and towards these ends The Cameraphone Company of New York open a moving picture and amusement house in the storeroom on have been utilizing every available mechanical and electrical the Square formerly occupied by W. A. Reichard. The place is device that has been suggested to them in their experiments to to be remodeled to meet the requirements, and the new place will accomplish the exact synchronization of moving picture and phono- be similar to others that have been running here for some time. graph. • Many difficulties have beset their path, but by persistent It will be the fourth of its kind in the city. * * * efforts have been overcome, and their labors are now crowned with success. Their methods and devices are covered by patents E. B. Chadsey, a theatrical man of Lynn, Mass., opened a and a great future is before them. We have watched the evolu- 10-cent theater at Second and Grand avenue, Milwaukee, August tion of their experiments with interest, and when, a short while 1. Moving pictures illustrated and songs of the latest, cleanest ago, Mr. Hammerstein persuaded them against their better judg- and best type will be featured and the house will cater for women ment to give a public exhibition, we were sorry, well knowing and children exclusively. unique an exhibition is, that if it not act in perfect * * * however does harmony at its debut it will be a hard fight for the future. How- In Eau Claire, Wis., a new 5-cent picture is start about show to ever, Mr. Hammerstein was well pleased with the results, al- the 1st of August in the Gadsby building. though, owing to the unsuitable surroundings of the roof gar^S- * * * they were not a success. During the past week we were favored We occasionally get requests for ideas and suggestions to im- with a private view of the exhibition, and can assure our readers {irove 5-cent theaters during the hot weather. We clip the fol- that in the Fall the combination will be an unqualified suceea owing from the Chattanooga, Tenn., News: Mr. Dave Keith Some six films were put through the machine; the pictures and will make a great change in his beautiful ice cream parlor at songs worked in true and perfect accord with each other. Mai? Ninth and Market streets. Instead of using the entire place for amusement proprietors are trying to secure a "first night," let tables and chairs he will only use the front half for this purpose, Mr. Whitman, the manager of the company, says that until fe as he found most of his patrons preferred to use the tables nearer is fully satisfied with the pictures, and knows that every condi- the front The rear half will be beautifully arranged and used tion for successful exhibition has been complied with, he wa for a fine motion picture and high-class singing theater under the not give a public exhibition. If the next public show is oalj name of Keith's Crystal Theater. This feature will be owned half as good as the private one we saw, the public will be mot* and operated by Mr. F. P. Shultz, who is operating the Crescent than satisfied. Theater, next to Keith's, which he will continue to operate as * * * well as the new place, which will be especially arranged for ladies and children. The ice cream parlor and the theater are to A new form of moving pictures is being devised for the

: be divided by a fine partition, but there will be a large archway benefit and entertainment of Chicagoans and others. _- connecting them. The side of the partition fronting the ice will not be visible for a number of months, but it promises 13 cream parlor will be finished in mirrors and white and gold be unique. A. cinematograph company is making all prepafi; woodwork and metal to match the balance of the parlor. Mir- tions to begin taking photographs the moment the wrecking <* rors will be used to the height of seven feet and the balance, to the present city hall is begun. The removal of the first stoat the ceiling, will be a handsomely stamped metal, decorated in or bit of slate roof will be recorded in the camera. Thereanft white, and gold. Exactly in the center of this partition will be according to the plan, a dozen or more pictures a day wiH * located a fine ticket office for the theater, to be made of mirrors taken during the process of demolition. And then, when t» b and brass grille work,- which will be topped off by cluster's of work of construction begins, the photographer will continue electric lights. On the right-hand side will be situated the en- be busy. He will not desist until the great new building is <#£ trance in the form of mirror archway, and the entire arch will "plete—a dozen or more pictures a day during the two or toff pa* be a blaze of lights. An immense 52,000 orchestra will be placed years of construction activity. At the end it is expected the —

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the old ruin will be able to see destroyed and the new city city, and a show was given in these different places during the with lightning-like ' il come into being rapidity. week. * * * * * * For the first time in the Happy Half Hour will be the title of the new moving picture history of Boston churches" moving pictures were used in religious sort at the St Andrew's rink, St John, N. B., to be managed a service. The occasion was the Old Home Week welcome services r Mr. A. K. Mundee, who has arranged with one of the largest at Berkeley Temple. The in the United States and will Hon. J. Wilder Fairbank delivered an illustrated lecture to houses secure his pictures and on mes direct from New York. "Glimpses of the Past Boston and Ye Old Homestead," closing with motion pictures of the Stars and Stripes. * * * Here is a copy of a letter which was found open on the street, All is ridently intended for some one, although it was not enclosed in Boston to make its appearance in vaudeville. Arrange- is ments were made by Joseph Mack, the a envelope. The letter as follows : "Dear Mary—I reached representative of Miles Brothers, >wn to-day and found it very easy to do all of my shopping, so of Boston, New York and San Francisco, to take a I I time moving picture during Old Home Week. Stands built, mch so that found had some on my hands, and not . were and nowing anybody here I decided to go to some place of amuse- the photographer and Mr. Herbert Miles arrived in Boston on lent, and looking up the street my eye caught the sign of the Wednesday morning and photographed the civic and trades ickel Theater. At first I thought that a place having such a parade. Another picture was taken later in the week of the living nail price of admission must be rather a cheap place. Then it flag and another one of the gymnastics of the automobile. xurred to me that it was the same place where you and I had -These pictures were exhibited, one on the Thursday evening and ten in times past, where they used to have those variety shows the other the night following the taking of the negatives, so hich we so much enjoyed, and I concluded it might perhaps that all came in during the week's festivities. * * * run by the same folks. I went up to the box office and got a cket and was shown the most attention by a courteous usher. In. discussing the moving picture industry and its future, Billy e treated me just the same as if I had been a city girl. The Boston, manager of the Electric Air Dome on First avenue, lace was quite dark, but I soon got used to it, and pretty soon Boston, Mass., said : "This is the age of moving pictures, and it ie entertainment began. It consisted entirely of moving pic- has only begun. I have been asked repeatedly, what would hap- ires and some of the best singing I have heard since we had pen if the United States were to experience a financial panic and ar swell time in connection with the church. We have some what effect this would have upon the moving picture industry. retty good singers up home, you know, but these people beat I've heard this so often that it has a full .beard by this time. ion all out There was a little fellow who sang; he couldn't You've probably heard the same thing over and over again. Let's ave been over ten years old. I think someone said his name analyze it Suppose America did have a financial panic. Would as Master Hanlon. He has got a good voice and sings his it be so bad that men could not even spend a nickel to secure a mgs mighty well. I wish he lived up our way; we would have few minutes of freedom from worries and cares? I think not im over to the house real often. Then there was a little girl It's more likely that the moving picture business would gain ho sang, and her name was Rita Mitchell. I heard someone rather than lose, for thousands of people who don't patronize ly she is from the city of Portland. If this is so, then they 5-cent theaters but who take more costly enjoyment, would have some good young talent in that town. You should have to cut themselves down as far as expenses are concerned—but the motion pictures, for they are fine. Everything is per- they could still afford to see picture shows, and every day in the ' xt It isn't like a variety show, where some are good and week, at that." * • * : are not but here everything was first-class. They have »d piano music and the very best drummer boy I ever heard. Versailes, Ky.—The Wilson storeroom at the corner of Main ist think! It only cost me the small sum of five cents to see and Morgan streets has been rented by Messrs. E. T. Young is entertainment, and ft was worth a good deal more. I wish and Harry Reid, who will install machinery and convert it into >u had been with ine ; it would have pleased you, too. a first-class moving picture theatorium. "Yours sincerely, Lizzie." * * * * * * A new Chicago company, the New Era Film Exchange, to Chicago has 116 5-cent theaters, eighteen 10-cent vaudeville manufacture moving picture films; capital, $20,000. Incorpora- )uses and about a score of the penny arcades. In New York tors: Frank W. Perkins, B. Morse, Harry E. Randall. e 5-cent theaters are multiplying amazingly in all sections of * * * c city. But the Chief of Police declared them a menace to Smoke breaking out from the operating box of a moving pic- B young, and scores of them have been closed by the authorities. ture show at St. Clair avenue, N. E., Cleveland, O., and a * * * 5703 wild shriek from the operator as he broke from the room, W. R. Johnson has opened a >new 5-cent theater at 107 East started a panic among fifty people who were in the theater. The Kond street, Davenport, la. The place has been furnished for auditorium was filled mostly with women and children, with a eater purposes and will accommodate a large number of peo- sprinkling of men. They fought each other to get to the doors. Moving pictures and the latest songs will be shown. The police broke in and managed to quiet the crowd. No one * • * was seriously injured. The fire started from a cinder in th* Lynn, Mass., is going to have another moving picture theater operator's pipe lighting on a film. The fire was extinguished >erated by the Dreamland Amusement Company, the manage- before it got outside the operating room. The machine, valued ment of which has secured the property, 418, 420 and 422 Wash- at $500, is a total loss. gton street, at the junction of Central avenue, under a 20-year [To comment on the above is superfluous ; it ought to be made ase. The theater, according to the promoters, will be bigger criminal for an operator to smoke at work. Ed.] id better than anything of its kind in Lynn. Ground was * * * oken for the foundation and the work will be rushed so that Isaac Simon, an electrician living at 54 Hinsdale avenue, e new amusement house may be opened . as soon as possible. Brooklyn, N. Y, and John Turtelcaub, of 72 Glenmore avenue, .three-story building occupied by stores and the Friendly Inn were charged in the Court of Special Sessions, July 31, with con- -demolished "!^ and the theater will extend from Washington public consisting of moving pictures, accompanied W"l°w ducting shows ?. streets. The estimated cost is $25,000. The theater by vocal and instrumental music, on Sunday, at 25 Manhattan «i be 56 x 165 and will be one story. It will be of brick, with avenue and 1703 Pitkins avenue, respectively, m violation of the 1 ornamental metal front and a lobby, 35 x 30. Over the en- Sunday law. They were sentenced to pay a fine of $10 or go to laces will be the offices of the managers of the theater. The jail for five days. They paid the fine. VC will be 20 feet deep and the proscenium 26 feet in the clear. ne * * * seating capacity will be over 1,000. A balcony will extend HOW MOVING PICTURES ARE MADE AND SHOWN. 53 ree si

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melodrama, screaming, comedy, inspirational travel - scenes, or "How are the pictures of the Rocky Mountains taken panoramas ; the wonders of science and art, or the sacred themes, show all the gorges, mountains and canyons?" is fiat in including 'The Passion Play*—all is lucidly and correctly por- "The Biograph placed on a car front of the locoa trayed, the sunshine of love and the shadows of the 'under tive, and as the train rushes along the operator turns then chine everything visible is correctly world/*' and delineated on the ribS "Are the melodramas enjoyed as much as a play?" of film in the picture machine." "How are the illusions taken?" "Yes, they seem to be. When Thos. Shea produced 'The "By stopping and starting the machine in accordance Bells' at a theater here recently, he held the audience spellbound with requirements of each change built up in the scene." regardless of the fact that the audience realized that was he "What makes them illusions, then?" committing the murder at the limekilns amid very material "By showing them from a machine which is run continuous] stage scenery and effects; so when we presented 'The Bells' in while they were photographed by a machine which ran moving pictures at the same theater the the | next week, same mittently." audiences showed the same appreciation of the same production "How are the plays such as melodramas taken?" upon the screen as they had previously shown to Shea; it ap- "The best scenes are enacted by superior talent on 'dayliA pealed to their artistic nature because it was an artistic and life- stages,' or stages in the open air, as the exposure must, like production, and the same can be said of all high-class films course,' be instantaneous." shown at the best theaters." "Is there much trouble involved in making the plays who "How can you show such high-class matter for such a small are outside, and in which there is a 'chase' or a fight takes place* admission V "Yes ; lots of it. Many spectators on the streets think tig "The numbers, just the numbers. Why, we have people who the robbery or the fight is 'the real thing,' and interfere come in every day and bring their friends the next day." sometimes spoil the pictures—sometimes they improve it, "Which are the most popular scenes now?" tentionally, by the additional 'rough house.* "The panoramas, or travel scenes. Why, don't you see," said "Is the picture ready to show after it is taken in the mo™ Mr. Bullock, "you can take a vacation for ten cents and glide picture camera?" through Switzerland, or the island of Java, or see Croker win- "No ; we have then the usual 'negative.' It is taken in tii ning the English Derby just as truly as the Bioscope operator dark room and wound on a drum and placed in a trough who took the picture which unfolds its midsummer glories before which are the chemical solutions required for 'developing, 1 your eyes." then it is washed and dried and placed in a printing machine "It costs something to get the pictures, doesn't it?" the dark over a ribbon of sensitized film, and any number of oti» the negative, rented, or sold, "Yes. 'The Conquering of the Dolomites' cost a large sum, prints are made from and to tit and the Bioscope operators had to climb the foot of picture shows all over the world." where man * • * had never trod." "How do the children like them?" Edward J. Margolies, proprietor of the Pier Theater, An«r« "Show them 'Cinderella,' 'Blue Beard,' 'Aladdin and the Won- N. Y., declares he is being persecuted by the police, who hw derful Lamp' and 'The Night Before Christmas' and they bring been arresting -him almost nightly on charges of violating tit license pictcn their parents to see it." ordinance which requires a to conduct a moving _ "What is the fascination' that draws the crowds generally? show. The first arrest occurred on Sunday, July 14, and befca arrested thrs "Well, the exhibition is continuous; any time suits the patrons; the date .set for the hearing Margolies was again they see and visit with their friends; the entertainment is re- times on three successive days—July 21, 22 and 23. All the fined, and is a veritable Chautauqua for the masses. They can were set down for a hearing by Magistrate Healey. be amused, or educated, inspired or thrilled; give them a 'square deal' and they come again. orrespondence. "Has the business come to stay?" C "I believe it will be with us as long as the telephone." Cinematograph Film Projection THrougl "How is the moving picture of a parade or a scenic panorama •> Flared Aperture Plate* end Lens. taken?" August 3, 1907, "Just the same as if you tried to take it quickly with an ordinary camera by changing the film and resetting the shutter rap- Editor Moving Picture World: -.* idly, and exposing again, and you would have the various changes Page 346, issue August 3, of the Moving Pictuk oh the different films, but you would find that you were unable World describes a patent application of Ernest Alba! to work fast enough ; so the moving picture camera is contrived Ivatts: "Arrangement for the Centering of the Imaga so that the shutter revolves on a shaft which turns about fifteen times a second, thus opening and closing about 1,000 times a in Cinematograph Projection." minute The film is an inch wide and comes in reels of two or To make it short, Albert is eleven years behind three hundred feet in length, and a piece about the size of a times. The idea is an old one, in practical use since 18$ postage stamp is always exposed in front of the lens. Turning in No. 647,525 the handle of the machine winds the unexposed film of an upper described a patent publication and shown, reel past the lens onto a lower reel and also turns the shutter. and filed September 20, 1899. The shutter is so arranged that it is passing the lens while the A sprocket drum oscillating in a pair of up-and-doss film is passing the lens for a sixtieth of a second. Thus the mo- moving cheeks; cheeks with sprocket drum describings tion of the film takes place when the lens is darkened. The film, short circle with the intermittent driver shaft as its ca- therefore, runs by an intermittent movement; it stops and starts fata fifteen times a second. It is darkened while moving for a six- ter, arranged to move the film up and down in the tieth of a second; it is then exposed by the shutter opening the aperture. lens, for a twentieth of a second. Thus the pictures are made From a mechanical and theoretical point, .the short cir- at the rate of a thousand a minute. Each picture is a trifle cle of the sprocket drum is impracticable, because ts different from the one which preceded it; each picture portrays a different portion of the act which constitutes the scene, and as film, when clamped to the intermittent sprocket malri^ circle each portion was only one-fifteenth of a second in length, the its up-and-down movement, has to follow the de- persistence of vision prevents the noticing break 12 eye from the scribed, and therefore changes its vertical position to each fifteenth of a second, and the eye sees a continuous picture aperture basis, unless the aperture is far enough a«! when the film is run through a similar machine in the moving impractidk picture show." from the sprocket, which would also be . adjustowe "If the picture is only an inch square or less, how does it Only a large circle is practicable, where the show so large and clear on the screen?" of one image (% inch) will not deviate much fromtK "By using a light much stronger than the arc lights on the vertical line. street and focusing the powerful ray on the inch of film, we have A well-known moving picture company of America, c an intense illumination, which is taken up by the objective and • Nassau street, remove show bills, not belonging projected on the screen, and if the image be, say 13 by 16 feet, who Pa* then our picture is magnified about 30,000 times." them, from another house in Sulzer's Harlem River & "Why do some of the pictures make a noise?" with smartness also claim the idea in setting the film " "That is produced in the best shows, by means of mechanical stead of the .aperture plate-^inventors of others' lntf3

effects,^ and as natural or artificial scenes are -productive of • m - Respectfully, concomitant sounds, their svnonymons reproduction is an inter- tions." -.' 8- • j SCHXEIBE esting and realistic illusion." . . EBERHARD . "

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The L i f• of * Film.

Rochester, N. Y., August 5, 1907.

dilors Moving Picture World, New York City:

ear Sirs— . in your issue entitled In your editorial of July 27, "Life refer to "the old-time quality of celluloid" a Film," you d also to "the present-day cheapened film." While refer by the expression u may intend to "cheapened in selling price, you that m" to a reduction may mean as the price of the film stock has been All that is newest, latest e quality as well SONG SLIDE SERVICE— wered; and as we are the largest manufacturers of and best in Illustrated Song Slides. (Send for lematograph negative and positive film, we would like circular letter of terms, lists, etc) that the film support, or celluloid, as you ju to know BOOKING AGENCY—Furnishing high-grade is now certainly equal to any that we have ever singers, pianists, qualified operators, ill it, competent ide and in our opinion is better than ever before. We and moving picture attaches at lowest salaries ow from the results of tests applied for years to the commensurate with satisfactory services. (Write m in our testing laboratory that the standard has not full particulars when makingapplication forhelp.) en lowered. We enclose for your inspection a piece MUSIC PUBLISHERS' EXCHANGE-Featuring film of recent manufacture cut from a length which and popularizing "All Songs of all Publishers," s been run through an Edison projecting machine which are available to our Lyceum patrons on 600 times. It seems to us that this film is in almost as day of issue. Music Publishers: Write for our >od condition as when it was run through the first time. popularizing plan. " Maximum results at mini- always been and will continue to be our endeavor has .. It - mum cost. maintain the standard but to improve the it only to POPULAR SHEET MUSIC-Our close connec- lality our film. are expending at the present of We tion with the leading music publishers of New about $2,000,000 in improvements and extensions ne York and the country at large, gives us unpa- manufacturing plants. Into the design of our film rarelled opportunities to handle for cash or on buildings and equipment incorporated new we have consignment the kind of music that moving

I of the improvements suggested to us by twenty years picture audiences will buy readily. Our propo- experience, with the conviction that when the build- sitions mailed upon application. 's are completed we will have a perfect plant capable fail to write turning out perfect product. AMUSEMENT tfANAGERS-Don't us fully of your needs. We make a specialty of truly, Your catering to your wants in all lines. When In Eastman Kodak Company. New York don't fall to pay us a personal call. F. W. Lovejoy, Cut this ad. out and write us to-day. General Manager Mfg. Depts.

[It was not our intention to imply that the- quality of And in the same building you will find celluloid base of sensitive film had in any way de- iorated. From our own experience we know that a iform high standard has always been maintained, IM eapened films" refers to the printing and developing »cesses, and it is well known that the length of time ich the gelatine film will adhere to the celluloid base ds to a large extent upon the chemicals that are AMUSEMENT- SSK co. d in the developing and fixing. Where films are WM. F. STEINER. Manager WM. DEVERY. Bttllatll Manager ed out in haste they must be hardened in alum baths treated with some other chemical to hasten the drying, 1 this tends to render the gelatine so brittle that it We are constantly adding to our large stock of 1 crack and peel away from the celluloid on the slight- Films. We carry all subjects, home and foreign, provocation. Another cause which makes for the in Moving Pictures. Always something new. life of a film is running them through projecting Everything clean. Entertainments furnished for ines of various makes, and this, of course, cannot Churchies, Fairs, CI ubs . Shows of 2 hours duration avoided in the rental business. The strip of film with Pictures and Illustrated Songs our Specialty. "red to in the above letter which had been run through Edison machine 1,600 times, is in every way as per- • Write for Terms of Rental, as when it was manufactured. The life of a film' Day, .Week or Month to depend entirely upon the skill and care of the tor and the perfection of the projecting machine. NOTE THE ADDRESS 44 W. 28th St- »"•—Iff you wish to get your >pies aregtularly, leave an order tth your Bfews i&gent, or. sesasS uo •OO ff©s» one year'® subscription. 3&2 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD.

Film in the Review. find. On opening the bag, how- ley makes his mistake; ever never send a . > J°nes is again confronted senger THT? XTTXTT, T „, , with his boy on a hurry-up THE NINE LIVES OF A CAT. mk-stained quadruped. errand. As**?* Now thoroughly picture- will show, the boy pays edison. disgusted, he throws the no animal into the dm to Charleys demand for The old familiar S^ass behind him, and speeds adage that a cat has r taking a bottle straightaway hies himself off nine lives has om hls basket, Ewi&Z been taken more or less l enjoys a social drink with vonte book, a dime novel, '- and while for granted 1 h, by the majority of people, but dihgently perusing its contents wu-f"??. _, , he mil the following pictures will While thus engaged, the still undaunted another undoubtedly messenger, and what thev convince smelling the fish, dn even the most skeptical, that the returns. She crawls the town is a caution; and old inS£ while 5J?,- saying is true. to the basket, unnoticed by the drinkers, having their fun, poor Charley waits -2 In the sitting room of d her movements inside cause the lid more his home Mr j" to misfortune for him, his girl eek'2 Jones rop She ,s thus (a well-to-do city gentleman), evi- 7 / left alone to enjoy the of waiting and goes to the fr show with » dently preparing to go out, is tneat other friend, engaged in ^£ \ ,_ . and as she passes bottJe ChJl conversation with his wife. ?? Otmg emptied, Jones gathers who is still Their little waiting at the theater, she daughter, pet cat up utfit and starts ™3 in arms, walks to the - if °, homeward, occa- him the icy go-by. wnting *lonaU looking desk and, unnoticed by her parents y back to see that the cat The messenger then turns secures es up and the ink bottle follow- Arriving at course which Mrsf Jones' 2° "i* home, he tells tells Charley that his girl has just S " is «- been using. day s sport> and on home, Seating herself on fu 1 • ' opening parley then takes his the Tbasket, is venge^ floor, she pours the contents over the greatly chagrined to once out on the poor kid. cat s back, rubs it in more D<*old the detestable and lets her go Pussy creature, which This is one of the best comedies released, ne thought "ad been of ± walks away, left behind. . year; and the little one! T it is dear, wholesome and legit™ seeing the stains on her hands In the cellar of their home a small run; the photography and pretty . dec- is exceptionally no dress, begins to p serves as the cry. She is taken up by u ^ next means to rid and will go to show that good her mother, themselves of the qualihj who, unconscious of the child's nuisance, and the cat, also obtainable on this side of condition, avM, been the a* is soon highly decorated by the g placed on a table which had as well as on the other. £ properly tiny hands, much to the amusement of her arranged, the current is husband. turned on- The The nursemaid is also nicely poor thing squirms and FROM daubed twIsts about, CAIRO TO KHARTOUM. before the child is taken from and Jones, in his excitement, the , room. The ever-vigilant ta hold °* an electrode ECLIPSE. butler now hav- , Being unable ing secured let h,s This enchanting the cat, the ink stains are ex- g £°> screams bring the butler to series affords nunsbe plained, assistance.-- In the less contrasts and Mrs. Jones, indignant, orders —. —« meantime.«v.i.iiim. JUMjPussy eses- of the past and the prtsea the capes the old pesky thing disposed of. from the table and disappears just as and the new, in juxtaposition: Us rs disciplined Leaving - J°,nes a ld the Arab soldiery the house with the cat, Mr Jones 5?. ^ maid reach the scene, and trained nadti enters his automobile receive a severe cavalry escorting the and soon reaches the t y * shock before Mrs. Khedive in Otis suburbs, where J°nes finally pulls the switch, state; the camel and he throws the animal into the motor car- p some bushes by the roadside. Returning Asain m the night Mr. and Mrs. Jones ltive methods of irrigation and the home, are Assouan g he is met at the door by his wife awakened by their audacious tormentor, barrage; modern Cairo with to Pu lI,n back the cient whom he explains how g curtain, they perceive an- Thebes; the paddle-wheel ste: he has carried _ out her her opportunity and the dahabeah ; the wishes; but on entering the house °l for putting an end to the Mohammedan is cred astonished to see perched on the newel ?- Jec? of v**1 * torment Mr. Jones secures Carpet and its smart uniformed P°st at the n s shotgun, and drilled police guard. foot of the stairs, the cat he l taking aim over the foot fte had left by the bed ' pulls thc trigger. One of the principal charms of wi roadway but a short time , As the smoke the beforei. clears lies in away several pieces of the animal's the insight afforded by the pict„ A butcher boy,, body float in the into the life of the while passing, is air- The fragments, how- Arab, at home or called ever m, and, upon receipt * come together again, camp—his devotions, sports and ami of a small fee, asrrees . and the body, to dispose of the troublesome ap re, tly U1tact faIIs t0 the ments. By these means a closer knowl canine. Puss &t } . ' ground. isIS placedGlared in hie K-id-ni. ~— j «_«__ .« TheI he followingfnl nivintr c/*»riA cVi^TT-f T^«~,. -* is gained of this m his basket and taken to the scene shows Jones at West wonderful people in i butcherw««.ii« snop,shop, where,wnere. nt A *-""'""cannon isIS stationed old-world environment than it is shesne is dropped into the • • , at a loop- pos the Z to sausage machine. ole the wal1 glean from any still-life i. A few turns of the crank "J ' and into this he loads an picture, and several e r heavy charge. books, or from any neatly tied sausages are ground *? t Then shoving in the other means short out. he rams actual residence These the boy (unnoticed by his em- her down and applies the fuse, in their midst. plpyer) S?he cznn Quaint hangs on the rack behind the coun- °n nangs fire a moment, and Jones dances by Nubian women ter. Soon a lady, eps up ,ust as the children at Berber; wild, fantastic pa who proves to be Mrs. . explosion takes place, Jones, ?S out and dances of enters the shop and, perceiving the TSf the rear end of the gun. Sev Bisharin Arabs; a L fresh-made sausages, ' fragments strike charge of Arabs at Haifa; the purchases the lot 2? him. and he falls t

pme' e d'f-.and then, with the air THE DEAF-MUTES' BALL covers a W ffSgtrtf S ^ of a Standard Oil -SIOGRAPH. other gentleman , Two « deaf-mutes masque steps up. mudf interested .-theater attend a ^SSS^RbS&KSffl^S bear, fell ; onerjnader-upras -a -Polar THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 363

Italian bear-trainer. After the stopping on the way to get just one more ment house. Here his Polar majesty gets tf as an " having unduly indulged in- the hop- drink. As they enter the saloon the bar- into the wrong flat, and, thoroughly ex- start for home. On keeper becomes panic-stricken and makes hausted from his labyrinthian journey, ped beverage, they ^av thev become separated, and the a hasty exit, followed by the imitation throws himself upon the bed, almost par- of his powers of com- trainer, who endeavors to explain. While alyzing with fright the who, wrapped ian bear, "bereft man find acation in sign language—being secure- they are gone a drunk enters, and although in the arms of Morpheus, awakens to fastened up in the costume, with his he may have in his time seen snakes, this himself in the fleecy embrace of a bear. the claws—terrorizes the is his first case of "bears," so he dashes gives alarm and a squad of police an- is encased in He 1 His plight is sad indeed, for his wildly out of the place, no doubt to take swer his summons and drag our masque- and he is given a the pledge for life. barkeeper, assured rading friend to the bear pit Central jjity is misjudged, The of berth bv all; even brave coppers de- of the harmlessness of the bruin, returns Park, where he is about to be incarcerated, of duty at his approach, and and kicks him out into the street. Further when his chum rushes up and in sign lan- 1 their post utterly helpless, due try the services the explains matters, thus he wanders about, on they to enlist of guage saving him fastenings of bit his inability to break the driver of a horse and wagon, but he skidoos from an awful fate. This may be a of eo5turae. At length his companion ap- in a hurry, leaving his team at their dis- nature faking, but it is funny enough to once more homeward, posal. this drive to their apart- risibility marble statue. rs and they start In they arouse the of a

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Films. F. J. Howard, 456 Washington at, Boston, Mass. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th at, New York Inter Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- N. Power. 117 Nassau st, New York MANUFACTURERS. cago, 111. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave. American Biograph Co., HE. 14th it. New York. Kinetograph Co., 41 E. 21st st. New York. burg, Pa. Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq., New York. Kleine Optical Co.. 52 State st, Chicago, 111. D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg., New Yon Kalem Company (Inc.), 131 W. 24th at.. New York. Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, 111. Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago. W S. Lubin. 21 S. 8th at.. Philadelphia. Pa. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg., New York. Southern FUm Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Ck,~ Geo. Melies, 204 E. 38th at.. New York. S. Marcusson, 104 Attorney st. New York. nati, Ohio. Milea Bros.. 10 E. 14th at. New York. K. Meyers, 123 W. 27th st, New York. L. M. Swaab & Co., 338 Spruce St., Philaddpii, Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. L. Manasea ft Co., 68 Madison st, Chicago, III. Pathe Freres, 42 E. 23d at. New York. Miles Bros.. 10 E. 14th st. New York. Wm. H. Swanson ft Co., 79 S. Clark st, ^^Chiem Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court. Chicago, 111. Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. IU. Viascope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph at, Chicago, New Era Film Exchange, 95 Washington st, Chi- 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st., Clian cago, 111. 111. Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau at, New York, National Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, ?0th Century Optiscope Co., 2 W. Uth st, Ni DEALERS. Chicago, ill. York. Novelty Moving Picture Williams, Browne ft Earle, 918 Chestnut Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave.. New York. Co., 876 Eddy st, San st, PMi Francisco, CaL adelphia, Pa. American Exchange, 630 Halsey St., B'klyn, N. Y. L. E. Ouimet 624 St Catherine, E.. Montreal, Can. American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Blag., Pitts- Slides. burg, Pa. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st., New York. Song Peerless Exchange, E. 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Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust 106 Franklin Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, 111. Chicago, IU. sts., St Louis, Mo. C. B. Kleine. 664 Sixth ave.. New York ft Chicago, Harry Davis, Davis Bldg., 247 Fifth ave., Pitts- Wm. H. Swanson Co., 79 S. Clark st, Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, 111. burg, Pa. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg., New York. Temple Film Co., Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111. Dominion Film Exchange, 32 Queen st, E., To- S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. ronto, Canada. John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Miles Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York 20th Century Optiscope, Edison Display Co., 1116 Third ave., Seattle, 91 Dearborn at, Chicago, Miles Bros.. 790 Turk st, San Francisco, CsL Wash. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st, Cb U. S. Film Exchange, 59 Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, IU. Dearborn at., Chicago, cago, 111. Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, 111. Moore, Bond ft Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, II Alfred Weiss, 1525 Erker Bros., 608 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. First ave., New York. Scott ft Van Altena, 59 Pearl 6t, New York Fort Pitt Film and Supply Co., 808 House Bldg., Selig Polyscope Co., 43 Peck court, Chicago, ID. Pittsburg, Pa. Stereopticons. Alfred Simpson, 257 W. 111th st. New York. Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. at. New York. Stereopticon FUm Exchange, 106 Franklin it, Qa 12th Calcium and Stereopticon st. New York. Co., 720 Hennepin ave., cago. 111. Minneapolis, Minn. Greater New York Film Rental Co., 24 Union sq.. / De Witt C Wheeler, 120- W. 31st st, New Yod New York. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph at, Chi- Harbach cago, HI. Calcium and Electric Light & Co.. 809 Filbert at. Philadelphia, Pa. Erker F. I. Howard, Bros, Optical Co., 608 Olive st, St Louis, 456 Washington St.. Boston. Mass. Mo. OX-HYDROGEN GAS MANUFACTURERS. C. L. Hull ft Co., 209 E. 57th it, Chicago, 111. Albany Calcium Light Co., 26 WUliam st, Albitf Kinetograoh Co 41 E. Greater New York Film Rental Co., 24 Union sq., 21st st. New York. New York. N. Y. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st, Chicago, 111. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co., 112 Front st, Brook Walter L. Isaacs. 81 Nassau st. New York. Kleine Optical Co.. 662 Sivth ave.. New York. lyn, N. Y. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, IU. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin vt H. A. Lande. 410 Market St., Pittsburg, Pa. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg., New York, Minneapolis, Minn. Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, 111. . S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Carrick Electric Mfg. Co., 218 N. Ashland su Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg., New York. G. Melies, 204 E 38 th st, New York- Chicago, HI. _ S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Miles Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth st, Cu Miles L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg., Chicago, 111. Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. cinnati, Ohio. . McAllister, 49 Nassau st, New York. _ New Era Film Exchange, 95 Washington st, Chi- Newton, 237 E. 41st st, New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph st, Chi- Coleman ft cago, 111. Erker Bros. Optical Co., 608 OUve st, St Low C. E. CRiimet 624 St Catherine, E, Montreal, Can. cago, IU. Joseph Menchen Electrical Mo. People's Vaudeville Co., 2172 Third ave., Co., 354 W. 50th St., New York. New New York. Globe Electric Co., 419 W. 42d st. York. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State st, Chicago, III. Moore, Bond ft Co., 104 Franklin D. W. Robertson. 407 Park Row Bldg., New York. St., Chicago. 111. Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 116 S. Capital s Miles Bros., 10 E. 14th st, New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th at, Cincin- Ind. MUes Bros., 790 Indianapolis. nati, Ohio. Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. England Calcium Light Co., 9 Way Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E. New C. M. Stebbins, 1028 Main at, Kansas City, Mo. 41st st, New Boston, Mass. York. _. , L. M. Swaab 4 Co., 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia. York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker Riley Optical Lantern Co., 23 E. Uth st. New New Pa. • York. New York. _ „_ Wm. H. Swanson ft Co., 112 Grand ave., Kansas York Calcium Light Co.. 309 S. Slat Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- New City, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. _ _ John II. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. nati, Ohio. Commtrt Stereopticon Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Alfred Weiss, 1525 First ave.. New York- Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- cago, IU. st, Philadelphia, Pa. . _ _.„. Williams. Brown ft Earle, 918 Chestnut St., Phil- Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First ave., Pin Lewis M. Swaab, 336 Spruce st., Philadelphia, adelphia. Pa. Pa. U a RENTERS. Moving Picture Machines. St LouU Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm ft, St Louis, Mo. American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg., Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave.. New York. „ ,, , Nelson Weeks, 217 William st. New York Pittsburg, Pa. Albany Calcium Light Co., 26 William st, Albany, •» Windhorst ft Co.. 104 N. 12th st, St Lou* Amusement Supply Co., 8$ Dearborn St., Chicago, H. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. Lenses. . ContSensors and Atlas Motion Picture Co., 223 Havemeyer st, Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., Brooklyn. N. Y. Minneapolis, Minn. Kahn ft Co., 194 Broadwav, New York York. P. Bacigatapi, Central Supply 114 N. C. B. Kleine, 622-624 Sixth ave.. New 107 FUIimore st, San Francisco, Co., Edwards st, Kalama- Ul Cal. zoo, Mich. Kleine Optical Co.. 52 State st. Chicago. Boston Film Exchange, 564 Washington st, Bos- Chicano FUm Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, IU«f ton, Mass. Chicago, 111. School for Moving Picture Operators and Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin are., Ch. Dressier ft Co., 143 E. 23d st. New York book of valuable Information (or Minneapolis, Minn- Eug. Cline ft Co., 59 Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111. Central Supply Co., 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- Edison Mfg. Co., 31 Union sq.. New York. operators ccd for beginners. zoo, Mich. Edison Mfg. Co.. 304 Wabash ave.. Chicago, 111. sense m» Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, 111. By means of this book any man of ordinary cago, 111. result Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. quickly learn to run a machine with best possible Consolidated Film Exchange. German-American Cine, and Film Co., 109 E. 12th 143 E. 23d st. New the best material offered" York st. New York. This book is a collection of and Euro? Detroit Film Ex change. Telegraph Bldg., Detroit. Greater New York Film Rental Co., 24 Union sq.. the cinematograph journals of the U. S. Mich. New York. augmented by the experimental knowledge and expo Dominion Film Exchange, 32 E., To- Harbach ft Co., 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia, Pa. Queen st, ience of the author and several other veteran "V"**"* ronto, Canada. 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Our editorial of August 3 on cutting prices has brought many commendatory remarks which tend to show the intense feeling throughout the ranks of film renters. It proves conclusively that we gave a warning word in season to a large and growing industry which seems to be getting a grain, of madness in its composition, and determined to commit suicide, or kill the goose with the

golden eggs, in its endeavor to satiate its avariciousness and gain business at any cost. If the present downward drop continues, we shall soon be hearing that nickelodeons can have film free for the privilege of advertising Published Every Saturday. - So-and-so's system. To quote a correspondent "Your editorial was alright, but, like Dickens's 'Oliver The World Photographic Publishing Company, New YarhV Twist,' I want more of it. Alftvd B. Saanim. Editor. You sounded the right note struck that key, I will J. P. Chalmm, AnecUt* Editor and Bu.in.i. M«i»»i«r. when you and hope you keep your finger on it till" all the trade, from coast to coast, have

heard it, and pull up accordingly. . . . to give m. 1. AUGUST 17th. No. 24. Just

you a little personal experience. . . . And twelve months ago I reduced these figures to $55.00 for two SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : Two dollars a year in advance.

'ostage free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, Mexico reels and three changes per week; $30.00 for three lawaii. Porto Rico and the Phillipine Islands. changes of one reel per week, and gave every satisfac-

FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Three dollars per year, in tion with clean, up-to-date film direct from the importers dvance, postpaid. and dealers, which no one could censure. My customers

TO PREVENT loss or delay of mail, all communications should were well pleased and all was going well, when along

' ! addressed to P. O. Box 450, New York City. comes and their canvasser, who at once offer my customers to supply them with the same amount of film ADVERTISING RATES: for $40.00 and $20.00, respectively. What could I do?

*50.00 ? sir ! I called Whole Page ... t . . • Reduce my prices to meet the others No, Half Page ...... 25.00 together the proprietors of the nickelodeons whom I had 12.50 Quarter Page ...... been treating straightforwardly, and compromised the Single Column (next reading matter) . . 20.00 matter for $47.50 and $25.00. Two of my old customers One-Eighth Page ..... 6.25 dropped out and went to , who supplied them One-Sixteenth Page ... . 3.25

One-Thirty-second Page . • . . . 2.00 with inferior and old films, some of which I had given three and four months before. Both of them have I MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS will be accepted them

; the following rates: SALE OR EXCHANGE, Private, per line gone out of business, because the people would not pat r :; minimum. 50c. per issue. Dealers or Manufacturers, 15c. per ronize old stuff. . . . Keep on with what you have ne; minimum. $1.00 per issue. HELP WANTED: 10c. a line; begun, and don't stop till it is not a question of price, but toimum, 25c. EMPLOYMENT WANTED : (Operators only) No merit that will tell, and if you keep on ventilating this

subject it's bound to have weight, because everybody in [ TO ADVERTISERS : The MOVING PICTURE WORLD goes the World. I travel a > press Thursday morning of each week. No advertisements can be the trade reads Moving Picture and no changes can be made in standing ads unless the circuit of 150 miles and I see it wherever I go." ' reaches us by 10 A.M., Thursday. / Another film renter says "Your paper has no axe to grind; it is thoroughly Please remit by express money order, check, P. O. order or reg- independent and unbiassed ; you are under the control :red letter. All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. of no one. Why don't you call together the film renters in New York, to a meeting in your office, so that we EUROPEAN AGENTS: may discuss prices, terms, length of films and other mat- INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY ters of benefit to the trade in general. You could act as Breams Building, Chancery'; Lane. London. E. C. chairman,' state what ybu'have learned as' to the opinions 372 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. of various firms, then let us fight it ourselves to instrumentation or other interference. out a In this way a cer- finish." tain amount of confidence would be gained by the you™ practitioner, and much loss of life prevented. We will' leave these letters in our readers' hands for \ It is m,. necessary here to enumerate the operations in which comment or otherwise. first needs further this The no words of instruction could method be employed, and space will from us ; it speaks for itself. The latter is a very flatter- not permit. ing encomium of our efforts to elevate and cement the The great increase in the granting of licenses and cer. good feeling in the trade. We feel honored by the selec- tificates for vivisection under the Act of 1876 is now engaging attention, but whether this increase is tion, but our bump of self-esteem is not so highly devel- justified by the advances made in medical science it is not oped to allow us to take upon ourselves so much,, with- the purpose of this pamphlet to discuss. ' The fact may, how- out the consent of a more unanimous opinion. We fully ever, unhesitatingly be stated that very few medical scien-

believe the time is ripe for a gathering of renters, so that tists will for a moment countenance the infliction of un- arrangements may be made for the Fall and Winter rush, necessary pain on animals.

which it will behoove every one to be fully prepared for, The controversy as to what is necessary and whit unnecessary has always raged round the subject or they will be like the girls in the story we read in our of demonstrations upon the living animal in the teaching of youth, who did not get oil for their lamps and they were physiology. The professors maintain that such are nec- left in the dark. essary in order that the student .may thoroughly grasp their significance, and that they may make the desired The Cinematograph in Science impression upon his mind. The medical profession have always expressed their willingness to adopt any method and Education. that will adequately take the place of experiments invok-

ing suffering to animals ; and this, to my mind, has been Its Value In Surgical Demonstration*. their great justification in the course they have adopted

The demonstrations in operative surgery, mentioned in By Charles Urban, F.Z.S., London, Eng. the earlier pages of this article, having conclusively proved the value of cinematography in cases of opera- Continued from page 356. tions upon the human subject, the natural inference to "Commence with a typical case. You will at the worst be drawn is that its success in demonstrations upon living risk the loss of 50 or 60 meters of film. As far as the animals would not only prove of equal service, but would patient is concerned there is no diminution in safety, for decrease vivisection experiments by at least 90 per cento! when about to operate under the eye of the cinemato- their present number. This is an argument which shout graph your preparations will be made with exceptional strongly appeal to allanti-vivisectionists,who acknowledgi care. that "great evils are not destroyed by total abolition bilk "Operative surgery, when taught by the cinemato- but are overthrown by successive ameliorative measures.' graph, should follow this course: My contention, therefore, is that, by the institution oi "The lecturer first describes the different stages of cinematography in the vivisection laboratory, an "ame-

the operation, throwing on the screen slides showing the liorative measure" of the first importance would be in- instruments necessary, diagrams, and photographs after troduced. grasped, the nature. When this has been thoroughly What is to hinder the student in physiology classe lecturer throws gn the screen the cinematograph film, at from attaining his familiarity with certain experiment the same time giving the supplementary explanations." by means of the Cinematograph? His grasp of the ex teaching obstetric surgery the In the of midwifery and periment and its significance would be strengthened bj cinematograph cannot fail to be of great assistance. The such means, for the picture can be repeated any numbe difficulty of making a student comprehend the various of times until the veriest dullard be forced to mark, lean stages in the proper conduction of an ordinary labor is and inwardly digest. This method would be advantage- will known to all lecturers on the subject. Diagrams op ous to all concerned : to" the student, because of the partially obviate the difficulty, but the cinematograph portunity of frequent repetition ; to the professor, becans would go far to make the lecture as instructive as if the there would be no fear of the experiment failing; am it. Particu- labor were taking place simultaneously with to the animal world, because one animal would serr larly pictures be service in would the moving of showing instead of many. the management of the child at the outlet—manipulation The student would gain in another way: Whereas of a breach, or twisted and prolapsed funis. now, the experiments performed for his benefit upon ft For instruction in difficult labor it would be of still living subject are comparatively few and far betwea greater service, for very few men who .have not done a by aid of the Cinematograph he would have the opp« special course of obstetrics at a lying-in hospital get an tunity of seeing many of the historic and classical a opportunity of seeing more than one or two cases dealt periments that at present he can only read of. I s with. One is met at the outset by the paucity of material sure, could the question be put. to the vote, the anirra for demonstration. Even in a lying-in hospital such as world would unanimously declare in favor of the sacntt the Rotunda, certain cases only occur once in a number of one of ^heir number under the perpetuating eye« of years. What, therefore, could be of greater value than the Cinematograph, rather than to the destruction ot» a collection of these living pictoral records, perhaps tak- lasting result. ing years in the acquisition, but capable of reproduction many with no fej|> at the will of the obstetrician instead of at the caprice of Equal in importance in the study of microscopic A chance? of life is the Micro-Cinematograph, perfected by Cinerr^ By -means of the Cinematograph the important stages company. Utilized in conjunction with the could be reproduced, and the student would have an graph projector, germs and microbes, magnified to gijj* mag*1 opportunity of seeing the difficulty and its obviation by tic dimensions, are shown in full activity. The —

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' cation varies from 2,000,000 to 76,000,000 times, accord- ments of insects and plants in relation to special adapta- iog to the extent of magnification on the film, which tion and environment. varies from 2$ to 850 diameters. The farmer, with the knowledge gained by a cinemat- of his is This discovery was only achieved after much patient ographic study subject, better able to cope with the depredations of the numerous insect foes which all labor and no small expense. The chief trouble to be overcome was that of light. It was necessary to turn a too readily devour his small profits. Microscopic forms of life enter into so many branches ray of 2,coo candle power on to the speck that was being magnified and photographed, and yet not destroy it by of industry and commerce, that familiarity with their appearance is necessary to tea, coffee, and tobacco plant- heat. In solving this problem a great scientific triumph ers, fish breeders, silk merchants, and many others, and of the highest value in many directions was accomplished, animated pictures of organisms affecting the various pro- and there is no doubt as to the. future of the Micro-Cine- sought. matograph in bacteriological science. ducts will be eagerly In the domain of physics, Micro-Cinematograph rec- As a result of this discovery, the scope of investigation ords of the birth of crystals and the wonders of recrystal- into various diseases produced by bacilli is, by animated lization have been made. The marvelous changing shapes photography, immensely enlarged. Ordinary methods of of the high frequency discharge in electricity are also re- preparing bacteria for microscopic examination give any- corded ; and demonstrations are given of the formation thing but an accurate idea of the natural appearance of of smoke vortices and the throwing off of minute spheres the organisms. The greatest difficulty in the way of or molecules from the wick of a spirit lamp upon which investigating living bacteria is the close affinity of their the rays of the electric arc are concentrated. refractive index to the media in which they are cultivated. The march of civilization is so rapidly defacing native After months of experiment with various optical for- customs that it is of the greatest importance that- cine- mula?, our scientific staff succeeded in finding a combina- matographic means be adopted to place them on record. tion of lenses which permit accurate examination of liv- For this purpose the Cinematograph is an ideal agent, ing, unstained bacteria. for by its aid we obtain a truthful and permanent record By the usual methods, particular movements have to of native customs, ceremonies, etc. for, often without success, as in the- "clumping" be waited The following instance of the Cinematograph's value of typhoid bacilli ; but, by the Micro-Cinematograph, pic- in this connection is quoted from the Inverness Courier tures of these germs, magnified 850 diameters, may now of April 2, 1907: be projected on to the screen in all stages of growth, and "An Expiring Race.—Dr. Moskowski and Professor in restless, unceasing movement, while films presenting and Mrs. Delenka, who are engaged in researches for the the necessary clumping can easily be prepared. Berlin Academy of Science, have secured excellent phono- In former years, only rapid snap-shot series for use graphic cinematographic records illustrating the life I and with the Zoetrope were available, and only one person and customs of the aboriginal Veddahs of Eastern Cey- at a time could view the subject exhibited. But since the lon. The Veddahs are the descendants of the primitive introduction of the Micro-Cinematograph the student of race which inhabited Ceylon prior to the Hindoo con- natural science may record the development of micro- quest. Their number is steadily decreasing, and to-day scopic forms of life, follow it through the various stages, there are probably not more than two thousand through- Iv and demonstrate it to an audience of any size, with better out the island. They are of dwarfish stature, their habits scientific results. In the days of the Zoetrope, twenty are extremely degraded, and they are devoid of any sort feet of film could not be produced; now, film to any of organization. The Veddahs dwell in caves, or in the length may be procured. depths of the forest, subsisting on vermin, reptiles, or By Micro-Cinematographic investigation, series have whatever animal they contrive to capture with their rude been produced which illustrate circulation and rotation weapons. They are not able to count, neither have they of protoplasm and the movement of chlorophyll bodies any idea of time. They cannot distinguish colors, and within the cells of the leaf of Elodea, the circulation of differ from all other known races in that they never blood in the web of the frog's foot, and in the tail of the laugh, and do not possess even the rudest form of musical goldfish. instrument." An accurate knowledge of these minute microscopic (To be Continued.) organisms is necessary, not only to the medical man, but to the Board of Agriculture, to every officer of public Correspondence. health, every sanitary inspector, sewage disposal committee, farmer, dairyman, brewer, etc. But for certain A Disclaimer. forms of bacteria the farmer could not successfully carry and Sixth avenue, between 38th and 39th streets, on his labors, while the dairy farmer depends upon other 662 664 iorms of bacilli for the delicate flavor of his cheeses, etc., New York, August 7, 1907. and the bacterial treatment of sewage is daily being more Editor Moving Picture Worijj: jenerallv adopted as the best. Animated photographs of Dear Sir—Your item in issue of August 3, headed foe different forms of bacilli and other microscopic or- "A Business Opportunity," has led a number of people ganisms are now being produced by the Micro-Cinemato- in the trade to infer that it was I who was looking for jraph. I a partner. Will you kindly state that I am not the one In its application to the study of the life history of who is in need of a partner ? !nsects the first importance to l Cinematograph is of the Yours respectfully, foe Board of Agriculture, to horticulturists, and to agri- C. B. Kleine. adturists. By its means are recorded, not only the trans- of formations from the egg to the perfect stages of the [If our readers are desirous of learning the identity "sect's existence, but also can be witnessed the manner the proprietor, and their queries mean bona fide business, tt full particulars on appli- Which, at different stages, it attacks crops. Great fa- we shall be pleased to give them

.' ' ulty • is given, too, by its means,, to the study of the move- cation. Ed.] : —

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The Franklin Amusement Company opened a moving nictiif. show in Birmingham, Ala., on Avenue and E Nineteenth street

A moving picture theater will be established in Omaha bv Lincoln syndicate, at 1316 Douglas street, if a permit to use At budding for theatrical purposes can be received. The building has been leased for a term of years by the Lincoln syndicate Another electric theater will be established by the same oersnl at Twenty-fifth and N streets, South Omaha. * * * Chess players and the public in general who remember Eurow' WOMEN AND PRIZE FIGHTS. famous "automatic chess player, around which scientific coth Probably no moving pictures troversy raged so fiercely which shown at Dreamland have at- and many experts dubbed fake tracted so much attention or genuine before it was finally as those of the Gans-Nelson prize fight proven that the automaton was Perhaps as much interest no automaton at all, but a clever piece of deception, was taken by some of the audience will find an in the questions of some interesting parallel in the women as in the pictures themselves. automatic checker player which came "What's the prize the fight's for? it into notice in Portland, Me., this week. As in the Is something like a pro- case of its gressive euchre prize?" asked one woman. European prototype, much discussion has arisen from it. automaton Tbe "It doesn't seem as nice as roller-skating, does it?" was her was invented by a contractor named Mansfield, who next remark. think found money making in his line "I do roller-skating is just lovely, don't of business too slow. So he constructed you?" and then, as a sort of after thought, "When you don't fall the checker player, which much resembled an auto- often." matic weighing down too machine with a checker board in front of it and "Do you think it hurts to play a game like that? Oh, what's a rubber hand projecting from a copper sleeve over the board. the matter According to the inventor, it with that fellow that's dancing around so [speaking, was operated by electricity, and al' evidently, of that anyone wishing to the referee], looks as if some one was pulling the play against it had to do was to drop j string on him—like those jumping jacks iised dime in the slot, when, accompanied by a great whirring we to have—do of within, you think he's excited or is he—maybe he's coaching, like in wheels the hand would move the pieces against those baseball. it's of its Come to think, more like my husband when he's , human opponent, and, as it happened, invariably wi Mansfield figured putting on a clean shirt and tramps on a tack—jumps just the that at least one person out of ten played same way and looks about as mad." checkers and that of these half figured that they were master!

"Oh, no, dear, I think it's a kind of dance he's going through," and could beat anyone or anything. The results justified bis the other one said. "Don't you know, sort of a three-people conclusions, for once the machine was set up at a pleasure resort vaudeville sketch? Is that a two-step he's doing now? How people fell over each other in their anxiety to contribute a dime for quick he changes! That's a Highland fling, or a clog-break the privilege of being beaten by it. A silver flood poured in which is it, do you think?" until a sceptic noticed that the rubber hand had a curious war She subsided for a while and her companion broke in of twitching even when the machine was not in operation. With M'achiavelian "What do you think that man there with the straw hat and cunning this rude person dropped in his dime, sat divine moustache, is doing? He's holding up a lot of things that dpwn before the automaton and in the middle of the game sud- look like dollar bills—enough to buy a couple of new hats and denly exclaimed, "Take back your men and we will begin over*

a stunning gown. It must . be a big sum. Is he a part of the The automaton obligingly took back its men, and, skeptical of fight? And just look at that woman over there! She's got a the ability of any machine, even if it could play checkers, to ad sailor hat on—a mighty plain one, too. Who ever heard of a on verbal orders, the investigator smashed it open and dragged woman going to the opera house in a sailor hat?" Then in a from its insides a human operator. Now the people who part ruminating manner, as if to herself: "She's got a nice head of their dimes to be beaten by an automaton are suing to get their hair, though, if only she knew how to dress it." money back. It was time for the other on* to talk. * * * "What's that black man pushing the white one away for, just Ford's, of Baltimore, Md., will be given over to world travel when the white cne's trying to embrace him in a 'Me lo-o-ng and its pleasures. Lyman H. Howe will present four entireh lo-o-st bro-o-o-ther' way? And what're they running away for new "programs during his four-weeks' stay. His representative and what are those men fanning them for? I'm sure it's not and himself have jqst returned from a most extended tour warm here this evening." the management promises a wealth of interest for the peop Just then Nelson fouled Gans, the latter's seconds and at- who like to realize what the globe-trotter sees. For the first tendants picked him up, lifted him over the ropes and carried week the exhibitor has chosen as his special features a nai him away. The crowd began to leave the ringside. The other display of the English fleet and the first animated rccnes era woman had the last word. obtained of darkest Africa. His photographers in both instant "What's that mean? The fight's over? How can you tell were given special facilities and the pictures promise to be fill when it's over? Who got the prize? Did you see it? Is it a with startling facts of subjects little known to the average indi- pretty one? And is this really all? Oh, my, wasn't it just too vidual The spectacle of the most powerful ships in the navy and exciting and too lovely! Did anybody get hurt? I hope that thousands of marines on land in mock warfare that in the scene nice-looking man with the gorgeous moustache and the dollar lacks nothirg of the real, is presented. The amusements of tin bills wasn't hurt, was he? Oh, yes, I wanted to ask—do these sailors are first produced. There is a physical drill and dancing men get paid for fighting that way or was it just in fun?" the hornpipe. Shifting the jibs, a perilous occupation, is dem- Darkness mercifully fell upon the screen. onstrated. Lifeboats race around the ships as they prepare f<* *' * * the attack. Perfect views of submarines in cruising trim, witl The city officials of Sterling, 111., have notified W. P. Boston, only their backs and towers visible, and their sudden disappear- the operator of the moving picture show on First avenue, that ance and appearance is. a vivid part of the series. The tonx* he would have to pay into the city treasury the sum of $1.50 a attack is said by the traveler to be the most realistic film he h* day, or suspend operations. Since the show was started the ever obtained. The photography is perfect and the enthusiast proprietor has neglected to pay the license required for such of a real engagement is easily realized by the spectators, nj show and his neglect was the cause of the issuing of the order. destroyers throw up cascades from their bows, fire the torpedo* The law requires a license fee of $3.00 a day for shows of this as they pass the- cameras, and the audience can plainly see tb class, but on being petitioned the council cut the rate in two, paths of these modern weapons. The moving pictures tri making it $1.50 a day for the operation of the Boston show. "talk," as before, by the introduction of mechanical, musical as vocal effects, a .feature that made the Howe exhibitions ver~ Building Inspector Dugger, of Chattanooga, Tenn., granted a interesting before. permit to J. T. Lupton for the erection of a picture show booth on Market street, between Seventh and Eighth streets. Plans are being made in St. Louis, Mo., by the Bijou Arnns ment Company, recently incorporated by Frank R. Tate, secrt Application for articles tbn of incorporation has been filed by the tary of the Columbia Theater Company, to fit up at least Lubin's tl Auditorium Company, which is to conduct an amuse- small amusement places in the city. Mr. Tate has leased ment hall, with "motion pictures" as the main attraction. The building at No. 716 Olive street, and intends to invest or™ officers of the new concern are Sigmund Lnbin, the optician; $25,000 in the fittings of this place alone. It is intended to Ferdinand W. Singhi and H. Horace Dawson. Just where the the handsomest of the three places. Negotiations are penal hall is to be situated is not made known, but something unique for two other locations in the downtown sections. One of tb in the way of "moving pictures" is promised when the desired will be on Olive street, within a short distance of that at No. P charter is granted. Olive street. The third probably will be on Washington aven« THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 375

The Bijou Amusement Company has a capital stock of $10,000. scenes, founded on Biblical stories, seemed real .to them, the The capital will be. increased soon in order to fit up the theaters. music lent impressiveness, the songs breathed of home, a home They will be equipped with moving pictures, nickel and penny-in- that once was theirs, not that where walls of stone and bars wihe-slot machines and other amusement features. and. gloom are omnipresent. Outside was the day beautiful, * * * nature in her brightest mood, happy, seemingly, in the enjoy- In Springfield, Mass., an attachment was placed on the Nicolet, ment of her children. They were not of it. It was gone from Main street, last week, by Carroll & McClintock, representing some of them forever. * * * the Consolidated Film Company, New York, and Sheriff Walter Miller placed a keeper in the place. The filing of the attach- Leases, at. 604 Olive street and 215 North Sixth street, St. ment was the preliminary move to a suit which is being brought Louis, Mo., were closed by the Holbrook-Blackwelder Real by the film company against Tracy B. Fairchild to recover for Estate Trust Company for the Lyceum Amusement Company, films which Fairchild purchased for use in the amusement halL which filed incorporation papers with the Recorder of Deeds. G. Dunning, representing the defendant, ordered the keeper The Lyceum Amusement Company has a capital stock of $5,000. J. away Saturday night and business was continued until the usual The incorporators are David B. Aloe, who has ninety-seven of

closing hour. Monday it did not open as usual, and it is said the 100 shares ; John B. Owen, A. Blattner and William Bruns- that a change in ownership of the place is to take place before wick, one share each. It is proposed to increase the capital at the amusement resort will be opened again. an early date to fit up the places of amusement the company will operate. It is the intention to fit up the rooms with moving From Brookyln we learn the greater part of one day in the pictures, phonographs and other amusement features. The fur- Court of Special Sessions was given over to the hearing of the niture and decorating alone will cost the company $30,000. The case of Elijah D. White, proprietor of a moving picture and leases are for a term of five years, at an annual rental for both 5-cent vaudeville show at Carroll and Court streets, who was of $16,000. The Olive street room has a frontage of 20 feet and charged with having violated Section 265 of the Penal Code, the Sixth street room 19 feet. The fitting up of the places will inasmuch as he gave an exhibition on Sunday, May 13, that was begin at once. Negotiations for the Holbrook-Blackwelder Real rot in accordance with the law. The case had already attracted Estate Trust Company were conducted 'by F. C. Breitt, manager considerable public attention, as it was one of the first in which of the rent department. * * * the moving picture establishments were involved. The fight made hy Mr. White was watched with interest, for it was THRIVING BUSINESS CAN BE DONE IN FILMS AT thought that the decision one way or the other would determine BARCELONA. for once and all whether this new kind of amusement place Barcelona is becoming a center for cinematographic shows and would have the right to give exhibitions or would be kept closed a thriving business is being done in films, which are principally on the Sabbath day. If the decision rendered by the Justices imported from France and England, some also coming from c?n be taken as a criterion, then there will' be no more moving Germany, with occasional purchases from American firms. picture shows on Sunday, for they found Mr. White guilty of United States Consul-General Ridgcley says it is impossible the charge and fined him $10.00. The defendant was represented to state the number of films sold there, but Barcelona is the best by his brother, Lawyer Elmer S". White, who. after the exam- market for them in Spain, Madrid being the next best. Alt the ination of the witnesses was completed, made a long plea before leading French and English makers have local agents. the court. He laid great stress upon one statement he made in The length of the films sold varies from 44 to no yards. They which he insisted that the law which governs the closing of are delivered at 2 pesetas (38 cents) per meter (39.37 inches). theaters never was meant to close moving picture establishments. The subjects preferred depend somewhat on the class of enter- The court failed to see it that way, and without much delibera- tainment for which they are required. The cinematograph which tion imposed the fine, which the defendant very gracefully paid. claims to have the most select patronage prefers scenes front * * * nature. The Lumina Electric Theater, at Nikon, N. C, was opened to There arc 30 or 40 cinematographic shows in and around the public last week and filled a void in the amusement world Barcelona. All sorts of moving pictures representing life in here. America would be popular in Spain. Any American firm fur- ; * * * J nishing films of this sort would probably find it profitable to The Pittsburg Calcium Light Company brought suit against send an agent to Barcelona. * * * A. F. Freeman, connected with a moving picture theater on North Hiijh street, Columbus, O., to recover, on two different Excitement was caused in front of the "Home of Pathc' The- rounts. The plaintiff alleges that a film valued at $78.00 belong- ater at Riverview Park, Chicago, when Mrs. Jessie Lyons, 1557 ng to them was destroyed by Freeman and that he has refused Kenmore avenue, fell in a faint as she recognized the picture of exhibition. visiting the park :o make the loss good. The Pittsburg concern also prays for her husband in the Mrs. Lyons was judgment against Freeman to recover on $79.05 worth of mer- with several friends from out of the city. She was standing rhandise furnished. before the theater when the door suddenly opend, while the ' * * * performance was going on. The scene portrayed was that of a McCill's "Happy Half Hour" electric theater has located 011 downtown Chicago street. She gave one look and dropped life-size portrait of her North Tonica street, near Chestnut, Havana, 111.; moving pic- senseless. She had seen a husband ures and illustrated songs. walking in State street. The young woman was revived with * * * difficulty and was taken home. Her husband deserted her two Nicholasville, Ky. The Crystal, a 5-cent show^ has made its years ago. Since then she had been searching for him in vain. — * * • ippearance here, on Main street. The show consists of moving •ictures of one-half hour duration. MOVING PICTURES ARE NOT ALONE. 1* * * Regulation of the 5-cent theater is rapidly becoming a moral A unique entertainment, one almost startlingly strange to many necessity. Suppression would work an injustice, both to those »ho saw it, was given the prisoners of the Western Penitentiary, who have their money invested in the nickelodeons and to that 'msbnrg, Pa., Sunday, August 4. "The Life of Christ," the large portion of the public that seeks cheap entertainment. Reg- itle given an exhibition of moving pictures, interspersed with ulation, however,, would serve the ends of public morality and at 'oral selections, was presented to the several hundred inmates the same time protect the rights of the proprietors and their 9 John Wendall, of Alleghany. Geo. Sommers was the soloist. patrons. But there are other influences as well as the nickel The entertainment was arranged by Guard Geo. Ortman, who has theaters that demand regulation. For instance, there -is the •n several other occasions successfully carried out novel entertaip- comic Sunday supplement. Some of the picture stories pre- nents for the men. He also has done much to build up the prison sented in these gaudy creations are just as demoralizing to the •rchestra and band. Sunday's entertainment was in the nature young as moving pictures of the more reprehensible type. They w a sacred concert While the religious feature predominates, doubtless do more damage than the latter because they find their he solemnity, was relieved by the rendering of some sentimental way. into the home through the medium of papers which seek °ij?s. Combined they deeply affected many of the audience, and to prove their moral tone by pointing the finger of shocked ad-faced men left the chapel for the corridors and cells, who an righteousness at the 5-cent theater's offerings. our before had been smiling with eagerness at the expected Some of these funny supplement picture stories teach disre- ?* Their eagerness was early manifested. When the nature spect of elders by telling of the pranks of lads whose mischiev- e exhibition was announced they crowded round the bearer ousness contains a touch of viciousness, in which they get the |J|J*" e ' tidings, some almost threatening to embrace him. As the better of those they should honor and venerate. Others make M* 1 for the exhibition approached, they could scarcely restrain light- of theft, lying, grafting, brawling and good order. Surely wr impatience. The moving pictures, so common a sight to these comic supplements need regulation as much as do the "ose.at liberty, had never been seen or possibly heard of by moving pictures. ^ny who have been behind the bars a score of years. The So also do the Sunday supplement's stories of grafters and — «

3/6 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. thieves in which the cleverness of wrongdoers is exaggerated to make alterations in the building, and these have to be paid fM and their dishonesty and criminality are made to appear by the owner of the theater. Seats have to be bought, smart and no Insidious suggestions- and the calm overlooking of moral stand- small amount of lumber is required for the stage. institutions largest of expenseis that of the front ards by that are supposed to be protectors of society The item If the theater arc fully as debasing as the worst of the moving pictures. is to catch the crowds, especially when there is so much * * * coa. petition, there must be an attractive front In some of the mon FAVORS PICTURE MACHINES. pretentious downtown establishments of this nature the front i< of the finest mosaic, with pictures painted by a {Clipped from the Springfield, Ohio, Sun.) recognized artist the In one of the Madison street theaters the front entrance Editor The Sun—What's matter with Springfield? Is she i decorated with two huge paintings, each of which cost dead? _ This is a question asked by every traveler coming to $501 Always there must be extensive arrangements for light, your city. I am a traveling man and visit your city every week. and % scintillant After a hard day's work I like to find some place of amusement sign, fairly with electric bulbs, must extend out ova for an hour before turning into bed. Your theaters are closed, the sidewalk, where it can be seen for blocks. Lighting futures, including sign, cannot be for less and I have only two places to go—either Spring Grove or some a had much than $200. saloon. ', Every 5-cent theater has a lantern with which to show its mm- ing pictures. lantern costs at the least We get tired sitting around the hotel and swapping lies, and The $100 estimate, and often we run out of lies and have to fall back on the truth. In the films, which are rented, come at $50 a week for each hundred films Jirms specialty company with several others, I roamed the streets looking for The are prepared by which make a of thai some place of amusement. Is it possible that Springfield has no business, and, as their pictures are syndicated, they never an people sufficiently interested in innocent amusements to open up sold. Most of the pictures come from London and Paris, ami some place at popular prices to draw the young men away from - it is only lately that the pictures have been taken in this countij. the streets and saloons? For the illustrated songs there must be one or more singers, Come down and look at Dayton once! We have fourteen and these are not easily found -for less than $10 a week each moving picture theaters. Some cost many thousands of dollars. Also there must be a piano and a man to play it. Two ticka Only 5 cents admission. Every one is crowded. The people turn sellers and one "barker" are necessary to look after the business out of one and go to see what the other theater is putting on. of the front end, and one man is required to operate the lantern Columbus is full of 5-cent moving picture theaters. Muncie has Even in the cheapest of these theaters it is hard to get along eight. Youngstown, Ohio, is only the size of Springfield and without a salary roll of five or six men and women. has fifteen moving picture theaters. Little Urbana, with 6,000 To offset this expense there must be a large patronage, an people, has four moving picture theaters. I have been in more that this patronage is available has been proved by the theati than 400 of them in different towns and cities and I find them on State street, near Monroe. Sig Faller, jts manager, says ti very entertaining. average attendance there is 4,000, with perhaps 6,000 on Satin Every one has a band, orchestra, buglers or singers who ap- day. In this establishment there are three floors, with a shootiq pear in front to announce the beginning of each entertainment. gallery in the basement, a penny arcade on the first floor, ao You only have one in your city of 50,000. I visited it three times the theater proper on the second floor. As a moans of gettin to-night and I saw the best pictures that I have seen in all my the people to visit the second floor Mr. Faller built a flight travels. I understand that your city council has passed ah ordi- steps with water running underneath them. The steps are nance prohibiting moving picture theaters from soliciting trade glass, and the water dashing below makes it appear to the visitor in any way and have done all in their power to drive this class 'of the place that they are walking up over a waterfall. Thoi of amusements from your city. sands who would not waste the time to go up in an elevator c If your city officials will visit any town or city in Ohio and climb an ordinary flight of stairs willingly go up this novel water attend one of these entertainments, and take a good thirty- fall stairway. "There's tricks in all trades," said Mr. Faller, i minutes laugh over one of the humorous productions, they will he dumped 50,000 pennies into a sack. Chicago Tribune. call a special meeting and repeal some of their blue laws relating fc * * to this class of amusements. From San Antonio, Tex., we hear a protest has been receive 'Motion pictures is the highest type of photography, and I by the city electrician from the operators of moving picture mi would rather let my wife and children laugh and grow fat over chines in nickel theaters. The owners of the small theaters hii a moving picture show than to take them to some vaudeville been forced to comply with the electrical code of the Texas Fit performance where smutty jokes and actions are the main Prevention Association, and the operators claim that the net features. y regulations work a hardship upon them. According to the regi Mr. Editor, I beg pardon for taking up so much of your time, lations, the booth containing the picture machines must be Ii« but I recognize your paper as a leader in your community, and with sheet iron or metal and only the opening to permit ti while you are digging at the Big Four to improve your city, let projection of the pictures on the screen is permitted. Thus tk some of your enterprising men establish some theater of this ^operators are enclosed in a metal-lined booth, without ventSi kind—not only for the traveling men but for the ladies and tion, and during the hot weather the atmosphere is unbearabl children of yo.ur city. Get them enthused once and you will see "If they force us to keep the dobr of our booth closed I for a your streets full of people every evening going from one theater will quit my job," said one of the operators. "The heat fro to another, as they do in every city and town of 4,000 up. the arc lamp raises the temperature to an unbearable degree at / It is the cleanest, most amusing attraction, and is a fad in the metal-lined walls reflect the heat. It is like being in a r» every town in the United States except Springfield. These little hot iron coffin without a breath of fresh air. During the bus theaters have made all of the old towns lively and traveling men days we have no opportunity to leave our booths for many honn take pleasure in visiting towns where several are located. Why The shows are only ten or fifteen minutes apart and the intern can't Springfield have a dozen instead of one? It draws the are spent in winding our films and preparing for the next sho* people downtown and benefits all classes of business. * * * Very respectfully, Montreal will have- a new place of entertainment, a deal bea J. H. Wilton. concluded which Mr. T. Keith, of moving picture inta 1423 West Third street, Dayton, Ohio. by W. * * * ests, secured a long lease of the property at the southeaster 5-CENT SHOW EASILY STARTED. corner of St. Catherine and Bleury streets. The place win opened and will dlaily furnish amusement by means of movu A . 5-cent theater can be started for $500. There is one on illustrated songs. Keith picture concern ope State street, near Thirty-first, that was put in operation for that pictures and The ates seven places of amusement in the Maritime Provinces a sum ; but there is another one on State street, near Monroe, England States. In becoming a place of amuserna that required an outlay of $35,000. The man near Thirty-first the New covered a wide range, having been W street, after paying out his last dollar for a lantern, was com- the property will have particular location of the thew pelled to sign a mortgage on his fixtures before his landlord merly a convent school; the the chapel of convent. This portion of the building 1 would give him a lease. The owners of the establishment near was the It possessei Monroe street have a dozen others, equally pretentious, in some constructed along the usual ecclesiastical lines. roof the interior will be changed by the ert of cities high vaulted and the largest of the country. At Coney Island, the birth- accomnw place of the 5-cent theater, they have a palace that was built tion of a gallery. When completed there will be "Nickel" will be readji especially for their business, at a cost of $60,000. tiOn for 1,100 spectators. The house October. . Between these extremes are 5-cent theaters of varying costs. * * * The- first thing to be considered by those who plan an amuse- paid, ment place of this nature is rent Usually it is necessary to sign Lyceum Amusement Company; capital stock, fully ?5£j a lease for at least one year, and, as the business is considered Incorporators. David B. Aloe, 97 shares.; John B. OweV 1 operate mo™ . objectionable by landlords, the rent is higher than for other en- Blattner, William Brunswick, each share. To terprises. After the rent is paid it is necessary in many cases picture machines, phonographs, etc — ! : : :

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MOTION PICTURE SHOWS. upon their letter paper and circulars, and this will ob- to be a concerted effort in There seems some cities to give the viously prove of commercial value as indicating the prac- nickel theaters an evil reputation. Where there are any known immoral, suggestive pictures pictures that tical knowledge and ability of the members of the firm. to be bad— — place a premium upon immodesty and invest criminals with a halo of A small fee is to be charged for the examination* and glory, they should be suppressed, but it is silly to condemn the the expenses will be borne by the Association. picture shows simply because they motion are cheap. The nickel For the same fee candidates who require instruction has a legitimate place in the life of the people, and there theater will be admitted to classes at the scarcely a city of 10,000 population in this country that does Northampton Polytech- nic Institute. *> not have one or more. /They wouldn't be in existence if the public didn't want them, and the public wants them because, at The Joint Committee of the Kinematograph Manu- price of admission, they provide an entertainment that a nominal facturers' Association and the Northampton Polytechnic runs or can be made to run, the entire gamut of amusement and Institute is as follows instruction. The nickel theater is the theater of the poorly paid—the little playhouse of the masses. It gives in a great Appointed by the Association: the knowledge acquired by foreign travel to thousands measure Messrs. A. C, Bromhead, Robt. YV. Paul, J. D. Walker. who will r.ever be able to go beyond their own narrow environ- Appointed by the Institute It brings the sea to the dweller in the inland city. It ment. Messrs. D. Buckney, A. B. Kent, H. Polak. familiarizes the resident of the coast States with the wonders J. of mountain and prairie. It makes men—and women—think/ Examiners for 1907-8: And there is comedy, too—plenty of it—rich, roaring, fret- Messrs. Nevil Maskelyne and S. D. Chalmers. comedy—comedy that is worth times the price destroying many The following is the syllabus of examination admission to the wearied, the worried, the heart-sick of For a Preliminary Certificate. Just the kind of a tonic that thousands of tired women and dissatisfied men need, and which could not be paid for anywhere. Films.—The inspection, repair, joining-up and regis-

lse than in a nickel theater. Republican, Lansing, Mich. tration of films ; care of films, and the effect of heat, dry- * * * OPPOSED TO SUNDAY SHOWS. ness, moisture or grease. Illumination by Gas. Precautions for safety in Mayor W. B. Kilpatrick, of Youngston, Ohio, is opposed to — the operation of moving picture shows on Sunday and has stated dealing with compressed gases, and regulations for tran- that he will not favorably consider the applications filed with sit by railway. liim by managers of local theaters for that privilege; Detection of leakage of gas. ' * * * of adjusting the jet in the lantern; possible Pathe Freres find the premises at 42 East Twenty-third street Method 00 small for their business purposes, and on September 1 they emergencies and precautions to be taken. will remove to larger and more commodious offices at 41 West Or Twenty-fifth street. * * * • Illumination by Electricity.—Method of trimming and setting the lamp for direct or alternating current. We learn that Kleinc Optical Company have accepted the ex- lusive American agency for a new line Of Italian films made by Method of connecting up the circuit, and direction of Carlo Rossi, of Turin, Italy. The samples they have received current through lamfi. from this company show exceptional merit in originality, in the Use of fuses, and regulations respecting position of onception of the stories, the use of artistic settings, and in the resistances. xpert handling of light and backgrounds. The geographical ocation of the factory and its mountainous environment open Optical Principles.—The choice of objective lens ip an entirely new series of backgrounds for story films which and screen distance for animated and lantern slide 'pic- ivill be a relief to the public that has become over-familiar with tures of given sizes. French, English and American scenery such as has become com- Cleaning and care of lenses and their correct replace- non because of constant use by the older conspicuous factories. IVe understand that first subjects will be ready for distribution ment in the mounts. ibout September i£, 1907. Full descriptions will appear in our The effect of heat on the condenser and film, olumns prior to this date. j Improvement, by correction and adjustment of the optical parts, of the illumination on the screen. Examination for Operators. Safety Precautions and Regulations.—Regulations of the London County Council. On October 15, 1907, and following days, a practical Effect of heat from the illuminant, and the use of the xamination will be held in- London, England, at the safety shutter. Northampton Polytechnic Institute. . This will be under Effect of accidentally stopping machine or breakage he management of a committee comprising three leading of working parts. ilm manufacturers and three representatives of the Insti- Exhibiting.—Choice of position for the Kinemato- tute, who have appointed independent practical exam- graph. Jters, under whose instruction the candidates will fix up Methods of setting up and fixing the screen and ma- md operate a projector under working conditions. chine. Verbal questions will follow, and the candidates who Lighting up and placing the film in position. »ave satisfied the examiners that they are competent will Centering of animated and still pictures on the screen. >e eranted certificates to that effect. Judgment of the speed of projection. There will be two grades of certificates, and exhibitors Use of title slides and prevention of condensation on nd employers of operators are especially recommended same. enter for the most advanced. The advantages which Particular attention zvill be paid to the skill and smart' successful candidates will, obtain are, the entry of their^ 11 ess of the operator. lames on a register which will be circulated annually For a Higher Certificate. imone all interested in engaging exhibitors or operators, The following, in addition to the subjects for the Pre- ue ability to produce a certificate when soliciting engage- liminary Certificate. ments, and incidentally, the general advancement of their The properties of celluloid, with special reference to )\vn position, and that of the business. The subjects of its inflammability. ;Xamination will include the regulations of the London The properties of oxygen and hydrogen, and methods -ounty Council, who, it is expected, will eventually recog- of generating oxygen, obtaining correct proportion of itte the certificate and examination officially. Exhibitors mixture, and the nature of dangerous mixtures, the prin- vh o obtain certificates will be entitled to notify the fact ciples and use of pressure gauges and regulators. Com- —

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puting the quantity of gas in a cylinder by the indication Special rules of the fire insurance companies for leu* of the gauge. matograph installations.

Effect of modifying the nipple of jet and the pressure The selection of title slides and the writing of teto on consumption and candle power. porary slides. The choice and properties of lime cylinders. Candidates who are accustomed to motor-driven kit

Resistances required for various circuits for arc lamps. matographs may request to be examined specially wjjj Relation between the sizes of carbons and current. reference to same, on notifying same on their applicatia Use of choking coils for alternating current. form. Precautions to be taken in connecting up and possible Candidates, who desire, may be examined on the mrti emergencies. ods of comparing the candle-power of illuminants. General forms of condensers and objective lenses. Candidates may be expected* to satisfy the examiner, Function of the condenser and choice of condenser for of their capabilities to deal effectively with an emergens various conditions. —Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly. Arrangement and adjustment of the optical parts. We commend the above to the attention of nianufac The concentration of heat at the focus and means of tiirers in America, who, if they would do so, could absorbing heat. hands and approach the powers that be, in all the lan« The position of lantern and kinematograph objectives cities, with a view of cooperation on such lines as ho in relation to the focus of the condenser. shadowed forth. If fully carried out to completion, sw Judgment of brilliancy and evenness of the illumina- a scheme would eliminate the undesirable element an tion on screen. tend to the progress of the trade/ The nature of screen materials. —

Film Review. by one of the players, and pointing her appears and sees her husband asleep. Chj finger at one, accuses him. The modern ing her hands in prayer and intercessf THE MODERN YOUTH. youth asks for fair play, which is denied, she looks upward, and feeling in her n and a fight ensues, during which the youth that her prayers will be answered, she got SOCrETA ITALIANA CINES. shoots his opponent and flees from the for her son, whom she leads into the pre The scene opens with a family conclave scene, followed shortly afterwards by the ence of her sleeping husband. At the sigi in the drawing-room of a well-proportioned girl, who staggers of? in another direction. of the premature gray hairs and the ba mansion, at which family lawyers, the pa- The players, who before were all "excite- form of his father, the youth falls upon ti rents of a prospective bride and bride- ment, now gather up the body of their late lenees, and taking the hand which had en groom and mutual friends are discussing comrade and carry it out to the sidewalk, been kind to him, he presses it to his I deeds and settlement connected with the where they leave it in s.tch a. position that and kisses it. This action awakes the a nuptials of a young couple. These having the Parisian police would imagine another man, and a breathless silence seems to pa tragedy had been committed by footpads. vade the scene until he finally recognia been settled satisfactorily, they are . con- gratulating each other on the results of The modern youth flees from the horror, his son. The father reaches for a stxj their labor, when the youth of the house nor pausing to look behind him, far into and raising it on high, crashes it down appears on tfie scene. As the mother runs the country, until he comes 'to a lane, to the mother, who receives the blow it he to him and tells him of the final arrange- where he sees a shepherd leading home his tended 'for the son. Seeing what b is immediate] ments, he is seemingly disgusted and re- sheep ; this seems to give the youth an done, the old man's rage pudiates the alliance which his parents wish inspiration, for, following the sheep to the turned into agony, and he falls into a dai him to form. He asks for his allowance. farm yard, he offers his services to the The mother, still tenderly cherishing h Taking no notice of his fiancee, he follows farmer, begging for work. The farmer son, leads him to the father, and both n his father, leaving his fiancee to be consoled notices his hands are not accustomed to on their knees and beg forgiveness. Hei and pride, hi by her mother. Reaching the office of. the this kind of work, puts a spade in his taring between parental love so father, he receives the portion of his- for- hand and tells him to dig,' which shows his wife and son, kneeling in agonizing old ma tune which he has demanded, is about to inexperience, and he is driven off. The pense, watch the emotion on the family go out, and he is called back to sign a daughter of the farmer' intercedes for him, face. Love finally conquers p« son's neck deed of renunciation; then taking the roll but is repulsed for her pains, which brings and the old. man falls on the more of bills, putting aside his father and mother, a blessing from the lips of the youth, who he is forgiven and received once he goes from his home. turns to thank her for her kindness ere the home of his childhood". Hastening to the apartments of a woman quitting the farm. Following the fortunes who has captivated his fancy, he explains of the youth to gain a livelihood, ' we find rag-gatherer the NICKELODEON FOR SALE—Moving p.ciure to him in the role of a on ;" at owe, her that he is free from all the tram- the Nickelodeon price $500 : moil -ell pri- n* mels of his home ties, showing her the streets of Paris, but, being weak from have «'tber business which requires all of ray money which he has obtained and giving vation and hunger, he staggers and falls HENRY W. WARNER, Muncie, Ind. her a portion, which she receives by show- on to the curb. Kindly people hasten to his assistance, and with helping hands as- ering her kisses upon him in acknowledg- Operator with e»ptn sist him on to his feet A carriage and StTTA HON WANTED— ment. Inviting her to go out with him, will go anywhere, ROBERT MAR 11 N . 63 W. they are seen driving through the streets pair, in which are seated two ladies, drives Street, .\c» York City. of Paris in a four-in-hand, taking in their up, and seeing the crowd they both get out turn the banks of the Seine, through the to offer their assistance. The mother love youth as Arc-De-Triomphe, then proceeding through of the older lady recognizes the PiC Oxygen and Hydrogen beautiful scenery, they arrive at a country her son, and at the same time her com- hotel, where they are surrounded by friends panion recognizes her fiance. The recog- w\»3 In Cylinders. - - - nition is. also mutual with the youth, who whom he dines and wines, finishing up with Lime Pencils, Condensors, Etc. get but the mother insists the drinking of toasts, after which a mock tries to away, Prompt >ervice, Reasonable R*to and ultimately leads him to their carriage, marriage is performed, uniting him to his ALBANY CALCIUM LIGHT CO. amorata. We next see him, with his and they drive off to his old home. * William Albany, N. T. pseudo-wife, at the card table, where he We see the old father, helpless and 26 St., seems to lose heavily, in the game. With broken down with sorrow, not with years, feverish haste he doubles and redoubles the being escorted, about the grounds, by a TO DEALERS ONLY stakes, still losing, until at last he stakes trained nurse, and finally he is helped to his last thousand on the game and loses. his chair, and up the steps of his house, Condensing Lens< Hardly knowing what he does, he borrows and taken to his room. No. sooner has he of the ever-ready money lender and fever- got there than the carriage containing the &< t Objectives. &c, ishly plays again, and again loses. The youth comes up, and, attended by his girl, who had been watching the game, and mother and his fiancee, he is assisted up KAHN 5 CO. had seen how 'the cards' had been 'manipu- the steps and taken into the father's room. - New Tc lated, tells, him that. he. had been, cheated Previous to.; his being led in,, the mother 194 Bro«4way —

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Films. Duquesne Amusement Supply Co, 616 Fifth ave., Keller & Co, 465 Greenwich st, New York Pittsburg, Pa. Kleine Optical Co, 52 State st, Chicago. MANUFACTURERS. Edison Display Co, 1116 Third ave., Seattle, C it. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, 111. American Biograph Co- 11 E. 14th it, New York. Wash. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bids., New York, Edison Mfg. Co.. 31 Union so,. New York, Eug. Lime & Co, 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, lit S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, fa. tssanay Film Mfg. Co., Inc., SOI Wells St., Wm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, Cat Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., 37 Randolph Chicago. ^ Globe Film Service, 79 Dearborn st, Chicago, IU. st, Qi cago. 111. Kalem Company (Inc.), 131 W. 24th St., New York. Greater New York Film Rental Co, 24 Union sq. st. S. Lubin, i\ i. 8th «t, Philadelphia, fa. New York. Miles Bros, 10 E. 14th New York. L. Gaumont & Co., Paris. American Agents, Kleine W. t. Greene, 228 Tremont st, Boston, Mass. Miles Bros., 790 Turk St. San Francisco. Cal Paley, 4TJ 28th st. New Optical Co., Chicago and New York. F. J. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston, Mass. Wm. W. Yort N. Power. 117 Nassau st. New York. Geo. Melies, 204 E. 38th St., New York. Inter Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- Pittsburg Calcium Light Co, 515 First Miles Bros., lu E. 14th st.. New York. cago, lit ave. ra burg. Pa. Miles Bros., 790 Turk St., San Francisco, Cat Kinetograph Co, 41 E. 21st st, New York. 407 Bldg., Pathe Freres, 42 E. 23d st. New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State st. Chicago, 11L D. W. Robertson, Park Row New Yoc Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court. Chicago, lit Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago,' lit Selig Polyscope Co~ 41 Peck court Chicago, II Exchange, 146 5th Socii-a Italiana " Cines," 145 Bast 53rd Street, New Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg, New York. Southern Film W. st. Gas* York City. ±>. Marcusson, 104 Attorney st., New York. nati, Ohio. Spruce st, T. P., Paris. American Agents, Kleine Optical r*. Meyers, 123 W. 27th st. New York. L. M Swaab & Co, 338 Philadchb Co., Chicago and New York. L. Manasee & Co, 88 Madison st, Chicago, III. Pa.. Urban Eclipse, London. American Agents, Kleine Miles Bros., 10 E. 14th st. New York. Wm. H. Swanson & Co, 79 S. Clark st, ^^rv~. Optical Co., Chicago and New York. Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cat IU. Viascope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago, New Era Film Exch a nge, 95 Washington st, Chi- 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Ctiesi ~ ^ cago, III. lit Optiscope 2 14th Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau st. New York. National Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, 20th Century Co, W. tt, Re York. DEALERS. Chicago, 111. Williams, Browne & Earle, 918 Chestnut tt, Acme Exchange, 133 Novelty Moving Picture Co., 876 Eddy st, Sao Pbi Third ave. New York. adelphia, Pa. American Exchange, 630 Halsey st, B'klyn, N. Y. Francisco, * jsj L. E. Ouimet 624 St Catherine, E, Montreal, Can. American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg, Pitts- Song Slides. burg, Pa. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st, New York. Peerless Exchange, 112 122 Randolph st, Chicago, Amusement Supply Co, 85 Dearborn tit., Chicago, E. Randolph st, Chicago, BosweU Mfg. Co, H Chicago Film Exchange, 120 L. Randolph tt, Q Boswell Mfg. Co, 122 Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 515 First are, Pitts- cago, 111. H. H. Buckwalter, 713 Lincoln ave, Denver. Colo. burg, Pa. Chicago Song Slide Exchange, 225 Dearborn lit Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg, New York. Chicago, Chicago, 111. Geo. K. Spoor & Co, 62 N. Clark st. Chicago. Ill- Chicago Transparency Co, 69 Dearborn st, Q Chicago Projecting Co, 225 Dearborn- st, Chi- Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, Cincin- cago. 111. cago, 111. nati, Ohio. Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th st. New Ya Wm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, Cal. C. M. Stebbins, 1028 Main st, Kansas City, Mo. Eugene Cline & Co, 59 Dearborn st. Chicago, O. T. Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Kleine Optical Co, 52 State St. Chicago, lit Chicago, York. sts, St. Louis, Mo. HI. C B. Kleine. 664 Sixth ave. New Chicago, 111. Harry Davis, Davis Bldg, 247 Fifth ave, Pitts- Wm. H. Swanson & Co, 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, Laemmele, 196 Lake st, burg, Pa. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg, New York. Temple Film 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, fa. Dominion Film Exchange, 32 Queen st, E, To- Co, Masonic Temple, Chicago, IU. S. Lubin, ronto, Canada. John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Miles Bros, 10 E 14th st. New York. st, Francisco. Cal Edison Display Co, 1116 Third ave., Seattle, 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, Miles Bros, 790 Turk San Wash. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co, 37 Randolph st, C S. Film cago. 111. Edison Mfg. Co, 304 Wabash ave, Chicago. 111. U. Exchange, 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, Moore, Bond Co, 104 Franklin st, Chicago, Enterprise Optical Co, 154 Lake st, Chicago, 111. & Erker Bros, 608 Olive st, St. Louis, Mo. Alfred Weiss, 1S25 First ave., New York. Scott 4 Van Altena, 59 Pearl st. New Yort Fort Pitt Film and Supply Co, 808 House Bldg, Selig Polyscope Co., 43 Peck court, Chicago, I Pittsburg, Pa. Slereopticom. Alfred Siyip

New Film*. MELIES. Toilet of an Ocean Greyhound 214 ft A New Death Penalty .400 ft. The Near-sighted Cyclist 334 ft BIOGRAPH. How Bridget s Lover Escaped 500 ft. Moving Under Difficulties 400 ft The Skipping Cheese 280 ft. Rogie Falls and Salmon Fishing. ...320 ft Revenge ft. Hypnotist's 1030 Robert Macaire & Bertrand io6v tt. Beating the Landlord 157 ft ft. if Mutes' Ball.. 790 Tunneling the English Channel 1000 ft Winter Sports 906 ft of Their Honeymoon.292 ft. xriting Night Under the Seas 930 ft Trip Through the Holy Land 500 ft. Fooled ft. tossy Father 153 The Mischievous Sketch 243 ft. First Dinner at His Father-in-Law's.320 ft. Model's Ma 233 ft. he Rogues' Tricks ^, : 265 it. Catastrophe in the Alps 434 ft Dreamland 753 ft. oils in Mysterious Retort 200 ft. Master's Coffee Service 294 ft Caribou Hunt 7*5 ft The Witch.... 820 ft Servant's Revenge 507 ft Wife Like This ft. You Had a 698 Seaside Flirtation...... 338 ft. A Pig in Society 167 ft be Tenderloin Tragedy 481 tt The Merry Frolics of Satan 1050 ft Great Boxing Contest for Heavy- ,yono 428 ft The Roadside Inn 230 ft weight Championship of England ft be Truants -..638 Soap Bubble*. 230 ft (Genuine) 547 ft stown Exposition 400 ft MILES BROS. Artist's Model 464 ft EDISON. Polar Bear Hunting 620 ft Miss Kellerman 320 ft True Unto Death 495 ft of a Cat ft. WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE. tine Lires 955 Catch the Kid 270 ft Fire Sale.. 900 ft Dick Turpin ft bhen's The Fatal Hand 43a ft 525 nestown Exposition 500 ft. The Poet's Babies 525 ft Land of Bobby Burns 330 ft st in the Alps 830 ft The Comic Duel 270 ft. The White Slave « 530 ft Canal Scenes and Incidents. 1355 ft Bertie's Love-Letter ua That Awful Tooth 390 ft Boone; or Pioneer Days in The Tramp's Dream 450 ft _iel The Disturbed Dinner 205 ft America IOOO ft Won by Strategy 408 ft J I Never Forget the Wife 390 ft. teddy Bears...... The New Policeman ft 935 ft A Woman's Duel 300 ft 50s Yellowstone ft Fatal Leap ft rip Through 735 S^SXLiW SS ft 250 1 nV*M The Race for Bed 220 ft w^ni? fem ::::::::::::::::::::S i. sr%££'*ettmg Evidence. "S.93093° "•£ Shave on Instalment Plan 267 ft HisHi.n,«Cheapn Watchw^l, .250«n ft e Vanderbilt Cup 400 ft Mischievous Sammy ft His First Topper 200 ft 340 The Busy Man ft ESSANAY. Revenge 380 ft 525 The Fishing Industry 400 ft. Because My Father's Dead ft Awful Skate .... 614 ft 455 Father's PiewV 256 ft GAUMONT. PATHE. The Smoking Chimney 311 ft. School for Moving Picture Operators and Hand- aying a Donkey. The Servant Hypnotist 459 ft. ooking for the Medal... 407 ft book of valuable information lor Cockfight in Seville 393 ft. raker's Horse Winning the Derby. ft operators and for beginners. .354 Red Spectre 623 ft. nfs Generosity ft 847 A Glorious Start 541 ft. Dy means of this book any man of ordinary sense may n't Pay ft Rent—Move 287 Angling in Norway. 328 ft. quickly learn to run a machine with best possible results. he Dog Acrobats 184 ft Discipline and Humanity 410 ft. This book is a collection of the best material offered in llucky Interference. ft 224 Prom Barrel to Barrel i>6 ft. the cinematograph journals of the U.S. and Europe, oners Escape 500 ft First Success 1 So ft. augmented by the experimental knowledge and exper- in a Spanish ft Inn 404 A Lucky Heiress 377 ft. ience of the author and; several other veteran operators, ng His »...3zo ft Change The Dancing Swine 295 ft. who will present some valuable hrr ts never before btelity 424 ft A Kind Grandfather 787 ft published. Here is one that will save you many dollars. atch Back. My 3*7 £• The Express Sculptor [382 ft. 1 tell you of a simple device which will positively keep be Soldier's Helmet ft 577 Poor Little Mites 295 ft. Condensers from Cracking, be Union Spoils the Food 527 ft Ostrich Farm. 328 ft be Orange Peel 260 ft C. E. LINDALL, T. P.—PARIS eing the Mail Carrier 550 ft Bar Harbor, - Maine Governess Wanted ft- lother-in-Law at the White City 567 ft 517 Cream-Eating ft Reference : Bar Harbor Savins* Bank lie Amateur Rider 234 ft Contest m be Legless Runner 350 ft Non-Commissioned Officers' Honor. 800 ft Interesting ft be Won't Pay Her Rent 184 ft Reading 184 Detective .700 ft "hose Hat Is Itr 384 ft Clever ved from the Wreck 620 ft. SELIG POLYSCOPE CO. KALEM COMPANY (INC.). Grand Canyon of Arizona 600 ft Craze ft NEW ENGLISH Roller Skate 500 I Hobo Hero 760 ft. The Onion Fiend 425 ft. ". Iff for the Day 670 ft Western Justice 700 ft lie Pony Express Rider 880 ft The Masher 440 ft lie Gentleman Farmer 720 ft One of the Finest 535 ft- FILMS be New Hired Man. 575 «. The Bandit King 1000 ft. pwser's House-Cleaning 675 ft. His First Ride. .7. 500 ft We are sole American agents for Dog Snatcher.. 595 ft Gir! {rom Montana 90b ft LUBIN. Foxy Hoboes 290 ft HEPWORTH MFC, CO. „,„- ^ * When We Were Boys 415 ft- CRICKS & SHARP R. ft W. PAUL ^S:::::::::::;:::::£|:ake ft «5te==B Hunting 600 ft Who Is Who? 500 ft *er Industry 500 ft, Female Highwayman. 910 ft en Women Vote...... 700 ft New subjects every .... Dolly's Papa 385 ft '•• V&VtUSSZZZZZB week. For descrip- [inter!M?5=ft*u:-Day in the Country ..750t- ft I Sights in a Great City 475 ft- H Much Mother-in-Law. 700 ft tion see Film Review as Letter 275 ft CHAS. URBAN TRADING CO. in next issue >*» **»! * nefs Washing Day 295 ft URBAN-ECLIPSE. nestown Naval Review ...500 ft The Gypsies; or, The Abduction 447 ft for LISTS jfi TRADE SUPPLIED [anted, 10,000 Eggs 300 ft The Poacher's Daughter 507 ft WRITE Pirates 500 ft Too Stout 474 ft win India 465 ft Cairo to Khartoum ft- WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE Anarchists 341 ft Too Stout , 474 Stolen Bicycle...... 255 ft Diavolo 147 ft Department P an Greyhound 227 ft Cleaning ...300 ft_ Toilet of Ocean 918 Cltsfnot St., PHiUOELPHIA. U.S.A. ..400 ft Humors of Amateur Golf .....434 ft drilling Detective Story 325 ft Comedy Cartoons.... •••374 ft- :

382 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. I FIRST CASH BUYER can secure an established WHY OUR SERVICE GETS MOVING PICTURE THE in Pennsylvania city of 10 ooo. No opposition; excellent patronage. Reason for selling; other business. Place THE MONEY equipped with Powers' machine (new), theatre chairs, piano, curtain, signs, etc., everything complete for carry- ing on the business Everything paid for. Good lease and low running expenses. Will sacrifice for $1400 to We do not buy one of each of ANY manufacturer's quick purchaser. output, but select with care each film with the idea to interest the audience, therefore all of our customers A GOOD INVESTMENT are doing good business, Don't write unless- you mean business. H. HAAC, care Moving Picture World, Box 460, New York Our service is not CHEAPER but BETTER than others

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New York Office "THE SEA WOLF" 145 East 23rd Street A DRAMATIC PRODUCTION New York City. Based on Jack London's Great Character Length 656 Feet Ready This Week Sea stories always have a peculiar fascination, but London's great novel is the most intensely interesting of the lot. In our film we have endeavored to show some The AMERICAN phases of a wonderful character without following i he book with any exactness An element of romance is introduced in a young couple the girl supposedly the Sea PROJECTQGRAPH Wolf's daughter, and a manly young sailor who is ber lover. The opening scsne is on the deck of the schooner out at sea, and the drama ic incident the flogging of a sailor with the terrible cat-o'-nine-tails for the offence of complaining about the food. The second scene shows an attacic upon the lighthouse. The young hero refuses to take part in the crime, and in the following scene is shown alarming the coast guards. There is a fierce fight even after years of use. at the lighthouse and the old Sea Wolf is fatally wounded. The final scene shows the Sea Wolf's death on the deck C.E.0RESSLER&C0. of his schooner and the re-union of the young lovers. GREAT SCENES 4? 6 WITH CARTOON TITLES Q 1. Law ofthe Sailor. 2. Plot to Deotsrosr tho Z*igHt. 3. The Plot Succeeds. 4- Coast Guards to the Rescue. 5. In the NicK. of Time. 6. The Sea 'Wolf's Finish. RECENT &&&.1E3 SUCCESSES THE BOOK AGENT — 720 Feet The Parson's Picnic, 670 Ft. The Pony Express . 880 Ft. Ike Tenderfoot - 830" New Hired Man - • 375" NOISELESS, FLICKERLE5S * Hobo Hero - 760 Ft. Bowser's House cleaning 675 " CHAS. E. DRESSLER $ CO. KALEftS @©§^PAWY, Inc. 143 East Twenty-Third Street' ra»*.24tb STHEET (Telephone 4M9 Madison) K£\y YORK CITY NEW YORE CITY «*"8 tent., Kleins Optical Co; 62 State St., Chicago 384 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD.

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Nothing in the history of the M. P, business will equal the great boom that will strike the country, starting with the first cool weather* By this time next week our New York Plant will be in our own New Six Story Building, at 259-261-263 Sixth Avenue, between J 6th and \ 7th Streets, which will be the largest plant in the world devoted exclusively to the moving picture industry* We will guarantee to deliver the same day ordered anything in the M. P* line, from a lug to a complete Moving Picture Theatre. Write us and we'll send you an invitation to our formal opening* You can eat, drink and dance with us, and we will make a Moving Picture of you while you wait, and show it to you before you leave. Tell us in your letter just what service you want and we'll tell you what you can get it for, from the first and biggest firm in the film rental business. Remember we were absolutely the first to recognize and cater to the Nickelodeons and have kept their requirements steadily in mind ever since* Flash us a wire at our expense and we will see to it that you are given immediate preferment. Get on our Mailing List.

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THE OUTLOOK—WHAT OF IT?

What in your opinion is the prospect for the coming

season? was a question put to us by one who is interested in the promotion of high-class houses. This is too large a subject to be hid under a bushel, and for the benefit of our readers we give our views that they may profit thereby.

The prospect for 1907-8 is the brightest that imagination can picture. Without exaggeration and from information which is reliable we can safely state that during the next five or six months some 1,000 nikelodeons Published Every Saturday. will open up in this country. The number of letters we receive asking us to pick out localities for |Tk» World Photographic Publishing Company, Now York. would-be proprietors, and some of them offering fees for the selec- ALFHED H. SMJHDEBS. Editor. J. P. Chalmen, Acsoclato Editor and Bailntu Momatfor. tion of good localities, indicate a growing desire to invest capital in a successful and rapidly increasing business. will this /ol 1., AUGUST 24th. No. 25. But not be overdoing a good thing? It r will not; so vast is the territory to be covered that 1,000 will scarcely make an appreciable difference. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : Two dollars a year in advance. But what ge free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, Mexico about the licenses and the fire insurance companies? Do awaii, Porto Rico and the Phillipine Islands. you not think these are difficulities to be overcome? FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Three dollars per year, in These questions open up a very debatable field. In some dvance, postpaid. localities there has been trouble with the licensing and

TO PREVENT loss or delay of mail, all communications should also with the fire department. But our contention is e addressed to P. O. Box 450. New York City. that the proprietors have brought all this upon themselves by the employment of inexperienced operators, ADVERTISING RATES: who have by their carelessness caused fires innumerable, thus through crass stupidity . : . . . and —to use a mild term^— Whole Page . 950.00

Half Page . 25.00 have compelled local authorities to safeguard the lives and Quarter Page 12.50 property of their citizens and the fire insurance companies Single Column (next reading matter) . . 20.00 for their own protection to raise the risk. The trouble

One-Eighth Page ...... 6.25 with us all is "that familiarity breeds contempt" and we One-Sixteenth Page ... . 3.25 One-Thirty-second Page .... 2.00 blind ourselves to the fact that celluloid is a most in- MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS will be accepted flammable material, and if we will not realize the im- the following rates: SALE OR EXCHANGE, Private, per line portance of the question the State must do so and pro- foe.; minimum. 50c. per issue. Dealers or Manufacturers, 15c. per tect us in spite of ourselves. ne; minimum. $1.00 per issue. HELP WANTED: 10c. a line; We have contended all along, and still hold the opin- linimum. 25c. EMPLOYMENT WANTED : (Operators only) No Charge. ion, that if careful, sober, non-smoking and experienced operators only are employed the difficulties of licenses TO ADVERTISERS : The MOVING PICTURE WORLD goes and fire insurances would speedily vanish, and provided ) press Thursday morning of each week. No advertisements can be ed and no changes can be made in standing ads unless the also that no firm be allowed by the payment of graft to »Py reaches us by 10 A.M., Thursday. the inspectors to ignore the requirements of the department, but be compelled to toe the line, large with small Please remit by express money order, check, P. O. order or reg- capitalists, the whole problem would right itself in a 1 letter. All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. very short time. Another point that impresses us here is the fact that no substitute—that is, a non-inflammable EUROPEAN AGENTS: substitute—has yet been invented to act as a base for the INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY gelatine. We remember writing about this in 1896 and base. Eleven years have Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London. E. C. were then promised a safe \

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elapsed and we seem no nearer to the solution of the try such a scheme here ? With good management itl obstacle. Rumors galore have been heard, but materiali- would pay well. The present number of film renters « zation does not appear. In our early wet collodion days not be able to supply the demand. What then? \yj we made a number of paper negatives and they are still know of several combinations who are contemplatin

in existence, not quite transparent, but nearly so. Could opening film rental offices in various cities, so that not paper be treated with a hardening chemical such as difficulty may be feared on that score. formalin and made strong and transparent? We hear Now—perhaps the most important point of all— nothing nowadays about the experiments along these do you think of an official censor for. the selection

lines. And yet nothing is so important as a non-inflam- films and what would you bar from public exhibition!) mable film. We wish we could say the outlook along this We think it would be a mistake for a censor to line of research was rosy. With this digression we will appointed. This matter should be left to the manufacj

hark back to the point we left off, viz., our 1,000 nickelo- turers ; they know the, trend of public opinion, and deons. But, said «ur interrogator, if all these places they choose to offend that is their lookout and they mo

open up how will they be supplied with film if there is suffer the consequences. - lot enough to satisfy now ? We know of three more film It is not our province to bar the exhibition of any for business shortly and manufactories that will open but we certainly think the time has come for every 1 they will take care of the demand as far as home pro- facturer to eliminate from his repertoire such subje

duction is concerned. In addition to these there are sev- as drunken men and women, train and safe robberies, 1 eral more Italian, French and English firms about to robbing of post offices and tying the victims to the come into the field and these will be able to fill all orders. road track, murder and crime in any form. Manufacj

Will not this tend to cheapen the product? We don't turers should ever have in mind that the audiences at I think so. It is a mistake to lower prices more than they nickelodeons are largely composed of children, who are at present. Besides, as we have pointed outpre- apt to take the evil tendencies shown sooner than the go viously, to lower the price is to lower the quality. Cheap points, and should not put stumbling blocks in

goods are always dear ; they will not stand the wear and way. •-..... tear by one-half that the fair price goods do. Instead of reducing prices there should be an upward tendency, a The Cinematograph in Science] thorough agreement between manufacturers to maintain and Education. a reasonable figure for their products. Good measure and better quality should be the aim, not quantity, to the Its Value In Surgical Demonstration* detriment of everything else. There is a mistaken idea abroad that if prices are not By Charles Urban, F.Z.S., London, Eng. reduced there will be no sales. Exhibitors must have (Contiued from page 373.) supplies and are willing to pay the price for them ; it is In the study of the movements and habits of human nature to go to the cheapest market, but if dealers and insect life, ordinary, photography left much to I would point out to purchasers that by paying two cents desired. Although a long series of photographs will | per foot more for film of noted makers they can give sent an animal in various positions, the one most 150 to 200 more shows, the price would be forthcoming acteristic is not obtained, and the point sought is mis particularly applies to the methods of carnivorai with better grace, especially if they can be assured that This seeking and capturing prey. The ordinary snapsh the picture will not strip from. the support after a few camera fails entirely in its relation to wild animals i exhibitions that the and the sprocket holes will stand their natural environment when seeking and seizing f<» wear and tear for a much longer period. nor does it give a graphic idea of the facial expressif We were then asked what we thought a fair price and characteristic movements of the animal under otr for admission. We replied that depended entirely on vation. These difficulties have now been overcome, and it the neighborhood. In a good locality 10 cents adults J possible to place before Natural History classes "lw cents for children can easily obtained. and 5 be The pictures" of animal and insect life which, by faitf" tendency is to improve the exhibitions and charge ac- reproducing every action of the subject under discu cordingly up the Harlem and Bronx districts, but this more vividly impress the minds of the students than I drawings. would be unwise in the Bowery and East Side. At lecture illustrated by still pictures or Upon all students of natural history the importance Curzon Hall, Birmingham, England, an old friend of ours j using nothing but photographs as illustrations ca Deffs) has for the past eight seasons ™n (Waller crowded too strongly impressed. However carefully the artist r out the building (holding 4,000 to 5,000) night after night draw, and however skilfully the engraver may « at prices ranging from 3d. (6c.) to 2S. 6d. (6bc.). Mov- there can never be the same accuracy of detail wWc&j ing pictures form the bulk of the entertainment of two is possible to obtain in a photograph. The Cinematograph secures to natural history hours' duration and two matinees Wednesday and Satur- the opportunity of studying subject films in which' day afternoons. Vaudeville acts/ conjuring, etc., occupy specimens—some of which are rapidly becoming &® a break with illustrated songs of perhaps twenty minutes —are depicted moving amid their natural surround* to a half hour, and the audience do not tire. Why not The swimming fish, the flying- bird, the leaping : : —

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 389

crawling reptile and insect—these, as well as the The Brick-making Rotifer Ostrapod the larger animals, are reproduced faithfully. By means of Red Snow Germs (650 di- Cetochylus it is possible to teach this sub- ameters) the Cinematograph now Young Oysters but as a relaxation from study, and American Blight and Green ject, not as a study, Tophyropoda cannot be gained yet impart a knowledge which by mere Fly Copypod reading. Cheese Mites (50 diam- Young of Prawn Of the Cinematograph in its relation to Zoological eters) Baby (Zoea) Crab Science, Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Spider Crab "Little Drops of Water" secretary of the Zoological Society of London, says Freshwater Hydra Life in a Water Butt "I have the pleasure to thank you, in the name of this Polyzoa Giants and Pygmies of the

iociety, for the exhibition of films of zoological studies White Cypris Deep shown at our last scientific meeting. Nevis "Through the Microscope" "I am glad to take the opportunity you give me of Gnat Larva Pond Life itating that, in my opinion, such studies are a great aid Corythea Larva Etc., etc. the educational side of zoological science. They are The Life of a Bee

lot only fascinating as spectacles, but they enable the Empire of the Ants Birth of a Crystal :vents in the life-history of many animals, and in particu- Metamorphosis of a But- Smoke and its molecules ar of the lower animals, such as insects, to be displayed terfly, etc., etc. Electrical Discharges a large audience in a fashion far beyond the possibil- May-fly Larva

ties of ordinary photographs even accompanied by the "Beri-Beri"—Its effects on Borneo Natives descriptions. The combination of patience nost vivid It may be mentioned—to give some idea of the mag- skill and the technical excellence of your apparatus ind nification—that the size of each film picture is, roughly, about a most striking result." as brought %xl inch., and in this space a magnification of 850 done, and results recorded, show the Work already diameters is possible. during the period of photo- lecessity of close watching In conclusion the Cinematograph has become, not graphing phenomena. as some people imagine it to be—a showman's plaything, ' Cinematograph has led to the observation and The but a vital necessity for every barracks, ship, college, of be termed subsidiary phenomena hronicling what may school, institute, hospital, laboratory, academy and mu- vhich were heretofore unnoticed, and it is most useful seum; for every traveler, explorer and missionary. In physiological botany, as showing the movement of n every department of State, science and education, in fact, ilants between periods of activity and rest. Cinemato- animated photography is of the greatest importance, and study by means ;raphy also teaches that the more we one of the chief and coming means of imparting knowl- is struck by >f modern methods the more the student edge. under ob- 1 he almost human-like instincts of the plants Finis. iervation. Photographs of a germinating seed may now be taken Our London Letter. >y the Cinematograph at regular intervals during man}' lays, until the seed sends up its seed leaves. The pro- ected pictures show the earth raised up by the swelling (From Our Own Correspondent.) eed, and the seed-coat thrown off;\the seed-leaves We -have a Kinematograph Operators' Association merge, straighten themselves out and then the first leaves here, but it is only three months old and so far has done ireak forth. nothing. It is affiliated to the National Association of Phenomena of plant life which take several days or Theatrical Employees, including the general employees reeks to record—such as the stages of growth in a plant of the Music Hall, the idea of the union being that in ad the opening of a flower bud—can be projected upon .case of strike the electricians would refuse to work the he screen, condensed to a single film, as if the succes- bioscope in the place of the operators. The operators are ive stages followed each other in the course of a few holding back from the Association in many cases because ninutes. of the antagonism of the leading exhibitors, and un- Among the Micro-Cinematographic and Cinemato- less the latter are won over, it will probably continue ;raphic subjects already prepared by the Charles Urban powerless. rading Company may be mentioned A scheme has just been issued, not from the operators Tie Amceba Red Sludge Worm but from the manufacturers and exhibitors, which you he Circulation of Proto- Water Flea and Rotifers will find outlined in the booklet enclosed. This is the plasm (700 diameters on Anatomy of Water Flea first practical step to test the proficiency of operators, but the film) Diatoms it remains to be seen how it will be received by "the Tirculation of Blood in a Head of a House Fly operators themselves and by their association. Probably Frog's Foot (500 diam- Fig Mites and Maggot the best of them will present themselves for examination ..eters) . Red Mites in October, particularly if the whole of the exhibitors irculation of Blood in the Bryozoa (moss animals) back up the movement by only engaging men who have Tail of a Goldfish Vorticellae secured a certificate. The big hope of the movement lies iliary Movement in the Paramecium in securing recognition from the L. C. C, which is an Gills of a Mussel Water Bear uncertain body. It is, however, expected- that this will resh Water Infusorian Midge Larva ultimately be secured and that the council will only allow (5°o diameters) Harvest Mites operators with a certificate from this body to take charge % yphoid Bacteria (850 di- Polychaete of a machine in their district. After that most of the ameters) Tubularian other councils will probably follow suit. M "Bacteria Glutton" Black Currant Bud Mite You will notice that the Kinematograph Manufactur- ( 500 diameters) Living Bacteria ers' Association is concerned in this scheme. This body °Ivox Globator . Polycistina has been in existence some little thne, but has only lately — — «'

390 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. become really representative and Pathe and Vitagraph are still outside. The booklet gives rise to the hope that the association now means business with regard to piracy and other evils.

[We published a resume of this scheme in our last week's issue and may take up the matter again in a week or two. Ed.]

Trade over here just now is booming. The Gaumont has just vacated small offices in to Company Cecil Court The Improved Film Supply Company, of New York, have occupy a building of six floors near Piccadilly Circus and secured the services of Mr. Jacob Weinberg as their booking practically assures their patrons the best the Urban Company is also building special headquarters agent. This products of the film manufacturers' output. We wish them success. Thej in Wardour street, in which not only the offices but the are noted for the high-class selection of films they send to their dark rooms and studio will be included. Other firms patrons. who are moving into bigger premises are the Warwick Trading Company and the Walturdaw Company. Two Messrs. Burton and Byrnes, of the American Film and Amuse- ment Company, 307 State street, Rochester, N. Y., were in firms who previously manufactured films, but had no - the city last week, paying visits to the various manufacturers office of their own, selling through the Gaumont Com- and importers of film, and we in our little way were able to be of pany, have now opened up on their own account. These use to them. No doubt the nickelodeons of Rochester are now are Williamson & Co., of Brighton, and the Cinemato- reaping the benefit of their visit Why did one firm go out of graph Sydicate, who make the Norwood films. Both of their way to make malicious and untruthful statements? * * * these are located in Cecil Court. visitor G. Tuch, president of The There are very few cinematograph theaters in Eng- Another was M. Electric Theater Film Company, Inc., of Bowling Green, Ky. (We wen land of the sort which are so common in France and very careful where we sent him.) He said: "I am a great

America, but' things are mending in this particular. admirer of the Moving Picture World. I cannot speak too Hale's Tours opened a place in Oxford street in October highly in its praise. It is one of those papers a man feels better it is full information last as an experiment and instantly scored such an enor- for having read. Not only that; of of sud a nature we do not get anywhere else. We cannot afford to be mous success that they have since opened close upon a without it. Why, only this trip it saved me $50.00 by the infor- dozen other shows in London and the provinces. The mation it gave me in buying films. We have a string of theaters show which they gave at first for 6d. (12c.) was. a very throughout Kentucky, and our business is to only handle film quality, shown to aa poor one, but it has since been improved and they are of the cleanest and highest such as can be audience of women and children. Our requirements are of the taking films of their own which should further add to highest caliber and need careful selection. The standard to-daj their success. Another company has been formed with is much higher than i it was six months ago, and I think yon, the title The British Cinema Company, Ltd., with the Mr. Editor, can take a little credit for having brought about object of financing and running street shows. They have such a condition by the stand you have taken towards the eleva- tion of the nickelodeons and 'the efforts you have made to elim- given one successful show at the Balham Empire, but inate the undesirable and blase subjects from the dealers' list?.' have not seriously developed their programme so far. Thanks, Mr. Tuch; we very much appreciate your kindly words. Foreign firms who have English offices, are rather dis- * * * appointed at the sales which they get in this country. From Washington, D. C, we hear that the building now occu- One of them is credited with the remark that the, maxi- pied by the United States Express Company on Pennsylvania leased for ta mum sale in this country is little more than thirty copies avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets has been years to Washington parties, who announce the purpose of con- at the best, but that it is easier to supply foreign orders verting it into an up-to-date moving picture theater. It is ar- from London than even from the head office. English ranged that the first floor shall be elaborately fitted up as a five- makers depend for quite two-thirds of their trade upon cent theater, with entrances .on both Pennsylvania avenue aid orders from the Continent and America. The latter D street. The second floor will be devoted to travel talks, illustrated by moving pictures, and also by an entirely new and most seems to have a great liking for English-made subjects' interesting method of producing stereoscopic effects on the and all the makers have now agents pushing their sub- screen. The effect of this new method is said to be most reah jects. istic and startling, and it is a secret. On the two floors tbt theater will seat 1,200 people. It has been named the "Cosmos, It is now generally realized that the adoption of the net as in it world happenings will be put before the audience by cinematograph on a large scale for educational purposes stereoscopic projections. is now merely a matter of time. You have probably received a booklet issued by the Urban Company on this Considerable excitement, which fortunately did not result in South Mas matter. Mr. Urban is really doing a missionary work in panic, was caused at the moving picture show at 227 street, Dayton, Ohio, Saturday last, when a film, which wb this field, from which others will benefit as much as him- being shown, caught fire from a spark from the apparatus. T» self, but there will probably be room for all. Mr. Urban film consumed within a few seconds and a large blaze alarms has already a fine list of subjects which could be used for the house-full of spectators. Manager Curtis, however, remains educational purposes, including a series showing the cool and cleared the house without any trouble or injury to anj- pulled and all famous Dr. Doyen, of Paris, performing various rare one. The box at Fifth and Main streets was the downtown apparatus was called to the scene. The damap surgical operations, the medical student would which amounted to about $50.00, which was the value of the film. otherwise not have a chance of seeing more than once * * * during his course, or perhaps not at all. The Liberty Moving Picture Camera and Manufacturing Cob- pany. New York; manufacturing cameras for the taking of a* [The booklet referred to we have been republishing in E. lx* mated pictures, etc ; capital $15,000. Incorporators : C. aw the past four issues j we believed the information was of West iooth street; H. Meredith Jones, 5« Manhattan 323 W» such world-wide importance that we wrote and obtained nue; Vivian T. O'Neill, 56 Pine street, New York. Miles have purchased from H. Meredith Jones of thisCompany all "P° Mr. Urban's consent for it to appear in our columns for net* and title to any and all Moving Picture Cameras which the benefit of our numerous readers. Ed.] devised or may devise. * * * When writing to advertisers, please mention Washington, August 13.—Thomas A. Edison, the invent* the Moving Picture World. to-day filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the District* — —

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in the Columbia for an injunction against Thomas Moore, of this city, benefit of the. doubt and granting that he is disinterested in his letter, it has enjoining him from manufacturing a certain improvement in views set forth must be admitted that he connection with kinetograph cameras. Mr. Edison claims that some show of truth on his side. The moving picture fad has Moore is infringing upon an invention, patent for which was certainly struck the American municipality, and as is the case fads, it • the granted him on August 31, 1897, which was reissued December with all American has struck us hard. Whether * n addition to asking an injunction, pending the deter- "blue laws" referred to in the communication indicate a lack 17, I9°3- mination of the suit, Mr. Edison claims, damages to the extent of progress on the part of City Council, or whether they indicate ".\ progress of the highest type, depends solely on the character of of ?io,ooo. | .. # # the pictures exhibited. That the modern moving picture repre- Vassar, Mich.—An explosion in a five-cent moving picture sents the highest development of the photographer s art may be theater here hurled D. La Bar, proprietor, through a window, conceded, but that does not enter further into the argument than badly injuring him. Ola Frawley, ticket taker, followed suit to acknowledge the mechanical ingenuity of the people who are latest in the picture line. and was slightly injured. The explosion followed a fire from a devising the improvements moving defective electric wire. Being merely a mechanical device, the moving picture may be made to represent scenes that in themselves are good or evil. At a meeting of the Police Board of Dunkirk, N. Y., a reso- It is more than possible that the pictures which called forth lution was adopted instructing each and every patrolman to stop Springfield's "blue' ordinance against these exhibitions were unfit is this kind ill entertainments, moving picture shows, illustrated songs, etc, to be seen. But the fact that there one exhibition of city is conclusive that "blue" 11 saloons on their respective beats on every night, including now showing in the proof our law Saturday, and to close up saloons if necessary to stop the same. is not sufficiently blue to keep out entertainments of this kind rhis order will become^ effective at once. Repeated complaints which will pass the muster of respectability. SpringHeld {Ohio) members of the Police Board against such entertainment in Sun. aloons, made principally by women, caused this action to be [This editorial was unavoidably crowded out of our columns aken by the commissioners. last week. The letter here referred to is on page 376. Ed.] * * * * * * The number of fires resulting from moving picture machines Anaconda, Mont., August 15.—John Berberick, aged 20, was las caused the New England Insurance Exchange to notify all found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of

ts members that an increase of $1.00 a hundred in insurance rates John Johnson, a ranch-hand, on January 15 last. Berberick, in

rill be made on all policies covering buildings where the ma- company with Frank Carpenter, aged 17, wantonly shot down lines are in use. Theaters that occupy a building permanently Johnson, a decrepit old man, in an attempt to rob a safe at the

ire subject to no raise in premium, but any building where Parrot ranch. The boys said they had been inspired to -the deed noving picture entertainments are held will be affected by the by moving pictures. Carpenter was sent up for fifty years. * * * lew rule, since a permit from the insurance company will be lecessary before such entertainments are given; otherwise the There is no form of amusement where human nature can be iwners of the building run the risk of having the company refuse studied at closer range, or to better advantage, than at one of pay any fire losses that may be incurred. The new rule applies the many moving picture theaters which have become a part of contents of a building as well as to the structure itself, and our national entertainment system within the past decade. For he permit to have picture machines installed must be included when you desire to study human nature, you must find human

1 the policy in the form of an endorsement. In cases where beings at their leisure, and when they are relaxed in their seats arts of a building containing machines are rented the tenants and watching the flitting film they are ideal subjects for study. rill be subject to 1 per cent, increase in the rates on any furni- The moving picture theater is not confined to any class or clique.. ure or merchandise they may have in the building. At a meet- The millionaire and the clerk, the laborer and the capitalist, sit ig of the Executive Committee of the New England Insurance side by side and both find equal enjoyment in the pictures. ^change a few days ago, the following recommendation modi- * • ring the recent charge for moving picture machines was ordered An order, issued recently in Birmingham, Ala., by W. H.Aber- or final action at the next meeting: "That a reduction of not nathy, city electrician, would have resulted in the closing of ver 75 cents can be made from the I per cent, minimum charge every moving picture show in the city with the exception of one )r the installation of moving picture machines when installed until each complies with the requirements as set out in Ordinance strict 1 compliance with the rules of the National Board of Fire 85 of the City Code if the acting Mayor had not put a stop to it. Inderwriters and the National Electric Code:" If this amend- The ordinance is a new one and was adopted on July 17. It is lent is adopted by the exchange the rule will not be as stringent the same as the ordinance in effect in Atlanta. Mr. Abernathy s it seemed at first, since such a modification would only pro- said that he had two avenues of action to compel the proprie- ide for an increase of 25 cents a hundred in the rate on build- tors of the moving picture shows to conform to the law. One igs containing machines, although a greater increase could be was to arrest every owner and the other was to notify the com- lade at the discretion of the companies. pany furnishing electricity. He decided on the latter step and * * * delivered in person the following order to the Birmingham Rail- Among the companies incorporated with the Secretary of State way, Light and Power Company: ;as the Kingsbury Exhibition Company, of Sandy Hill, N. Y. "Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company, City: ne company was organized for the purpose of producing and "Gentlemen—As the operation of the at No. is in resenting to the public moving picture shows and dramatic violation of Ordinance No. 85, you are hereby notified to dis- wfonnances. The company will begin business with a capital continue your electric service immediately and not to reconnect ' $900. The directors are: Warner P. Douglass, Glens Falls; same as provided for in Section 3, Page 13s in the City Code." liarles Shapira and Ambrose P. Corcoran, Sandy Hill. "W. H. Abernathy, City Electrician." * * * There is a provision in the City Code which compels the Bir- The proprietor of the Star Theater, on Market street, Har- mingham Railway, Light and Power Company to act on the sburg, Pa., took out a permit for the alteration of the store order of the city electrician. For failure to do so they are liable »m at 228 Market street, where he will have another moving to a fine not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each day dure and vaudeville amusement place. The place will have a service is rendered places referred to in the letter of the city age and an attractive front and $1,200 will be expended. official. The only picture show not contained in the order to the ». * * Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company is that one Incorporation papers were filed at Springfield, 111., for the or- operated by Mims B. Stone on second avenue between Twentieth uuzation of the Chicago Electrical Theater Company. The and Nineteenth streets. This place is in the hands of the Gov- tpital stock is valued at $30,000. The object of the company ernment at the present time. The ordinance under which City .to build a number of five-cent theaters throughout the large Electrician Abernathy took the above action requires certain con- «es of the United States. Owing to the large popularity gained ditions for the operation of moving picture shows. The require- 'the nickel theaters this company -was organized. The object ments were made in order that the fire risk of such places might

1 the promoters is to build and sell these theaters. Already the be lessened It is also probable that men interested in the mov- wipany has obtained options on several prominent buildings. ing picture show business will make a fight on the ordinance. 1e incorporators are : Aaron Gollos, president and general man- According to a statement made by Mr. Abernathy, there have W; A. Gollos, vice-president and treasurer. The company been three fires in moving picture shows in the city. Acting W and operates the "Home of Pathe" at Riverview Park. Mayor Cooper ordered a suspension to the orders issued by the * * * city electrician in order to give the proprietors a chance to make Moving Picture Exhibitions.—In another column appears a required improvements. wmumcatipn which might indicate that the writer was inter- * * * red 'or himself, or indirectly, in installing a the either directly , Kearney, Neb.—F. G. Keens has let a contract for imme- lnctl of moving picture shows in Springfield. Giving him the diate construction of a fireproof building that will be used for a — — »

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picture theater. buildirg has already been leased and rirst-class pictures are shown. Great illustrated moving The songs ar to a syndicate that operates similar enterprises in other cities. also a feature. The whole entertainment is also free, no cbr» itself is in The building will be made of cement and steel and will be 50 by for seats being made. The park splendid condition 100 feet. and the public seems to enjoy it more this year than in mam * * * past. It is great resting place seasons a and as a place to reaj Moving Picture Rescue at Atlantic City.—While the storm was perate it holds a strong place with the public * . approaching the other day, shrieks for help startled the bathers * * at South Carolina avenue, and a woman in the surf .was seen The Electric Theater on Military street, Port Huron, Mich, sink. will open about September 1. Captain Slyfield. has to throw up her hands and Three men who stood in bath- remodeled th* ing suits at the edge of the water rushed in 2nd dragged the building and it will be an ornament to the street The theate bather from the surf, amid the cheers of a great crowd. Then will be supplied with the latest opera chairs, have a handsom it was discovered that a moving picture camera had been ad- stage and is elegantly decorated. * * justed where it commanded a good view of the scene and that * the rescued "woman" was a man and the affair was for strictly Moving Pictures.—The nickel theater has a legitimate pUa gallery purposes. in the life of the people. Although a comparatively old "dream" The rescued, the rescuers and the idea j photographers scurried from the beach to escape arrest by the Europe—especially in Paris—it is of recent growth in the Unite. guards. States. Its development has been one of the curious amusemen * * * wonders of the day. There is scarcely a city of 10,000 populatm in this country that has not seen the introduction The nickelodeon which is being built on Market street, Steu- of the "Van dette" idea. These nickel theaters wouldn't if benviJle, Ohio, is rapidly nearing completion and will soon be pay the publi ready for business. The Mingo boys are having the place fixed didn't want them. And the public wants them because, at a nominal price of admission, they provide an entertainment up in modern style and when it is completed will be the finest that rum or can be to run the 'entire of theater room in the city. It is estimated that the cost of fur- — made — gamut amusement am instruction.. It is theater poorly nishing, remodeling and decorating the room will cost over the of the paid—the little plav- house of the It gives $1,500. masses. in a great measure the knowledge * * * acquired by foreign travel to thousands who will never be ab!t to go beyond their own narrow environment It brings the sa Charles M. Shaffer, of Chicago, is in St. Joseph, Mo., for the to the dweller in the inland city. It familiarizes the resident of purpose of securing a location for a kinadrome. As is generally the coast States with the wonders of mountain and prairie, known, the kinadrome is a moving picture exhibition, introducing makes men—and women—think. "I never realized what a battle- songs and other music The company represented by Mr. Shaffer ship was until I saw the Maine in a moving picture," a laboring has kinadromes in all the theaters on the Orpheum circuit and man told me. "I have never been across the ocean, but I ban they are strong features of the Orpheum shows. Mr. Shaffer seen so many motion pictures of Paris that the French capia! has three locations in view and expects to enter into a lease for seems to be familiar to me," was the comment of another. Th one of them in a few days. It is intended to open the exhibition same thing might truthfully have been said of London, Bering September 1. Cairo, * * * Constantinople, Rome, the fjiords and mountains of Noi way, the windmills and low-lying landscapes of Holland. F( picture The Nickelodeon.—The fellow who started the moving /these—and many other instructive travel scenes—are portrayi show certainly is a friend of humanity. There is more to this with almost startling realism in the nickel theater. And there than the casual thinker fathoms, and this innocent, inexpensive comedy, too—plenty of it—rich, roaring, fret-destroying coma! and frequently instructive amusement should be encouraged —comedy that is worth many times the price of admission I rather than its progress and success retarded. Hundreds of the wearied, the worried, the heart-sick! The mishaps of th people are here pleasantly entertained, and since their coming professor who went to the moon. The adventures of the spaa to El Reno there is an entire change in the appearance of the defying auto. The exciting accidents that made baby's first oat city in the delightful evenings which has been an advertisement ing memorable. The feminine pursuit of the bachelor who ad to our city of far greater value than many imagine. Every night vertised for a wife. Laughter, jolly, clean, every one of them hundreds of joyous, happy men, women and children promenade Just the kind of a tonic that thousands of tired women and dis our streets, mingling pleasantly together, visiting, becoming bet- satisfied men need, and which could not be paid for anywh ter acquainted and enjoying themselves at an exceedingly lim- else^ than in a nickel theater. ited expense. People of small income can enjoy these enter- * * * tainments when they would be prohibited from visiting an ex- Moving picture machines are a great menace to property, pensive show, and the amusement of this class of our citizenship cording to the report filed by Inspector of Inside Wiring McQ

should be considered by our city authorities and all good citizens. with the Board of Safety at 'Toledo. Inspector McCall and I While circuses and like expensive entertainments take hundreds assistants have been working hard since -his office was creati and even thousands of dollars from the city, the money paid placing the proper safeguards about the nickel theaters in Tolei these picture shows is nearly all expended among our home peo- In his report McCall says that 75 disastrous fires in Ohio wit! ple, that going away being only the insignificant sum paid for the past year have been caused by moving picture machines. Mi the use of the films. In many large cities these entertainments McCall is at present engaged in supervising the wiring of are given substantial encouragement because they amuse and big Winter playhouses in the city. lighten the burdens of honest toilers who cannot afford to take * * * their families to an entertainment costing from 50 cents to $1.50 Two Hartford men started out on the road with a moving p< each, and the good people of El Reno will act the part of wisdom ture show in which they planned to make quite a bit of mow; if they, too, encourage these entertainments here. The best peo- but a lawsuit is the culmination. .The men are Nathan Herbs ple, the rich, the poor, and those in moderate circumstances, and Edward Schwartz, and the moving pictures of the fin all delight in them, and the stranger in our midst goes away with simmons-O'Brien fight comprised the principal film which d a better impression of our city if he sees a jolly crowd prom- firm showed. They traveled under the name of the "Great EaS enading on the streets during the evening; everything looks ern Cameragraph Company," and after giving a show here th lively, cheerful, prosperous, and we hope the nickelodeon has went to Rochester, and then to Utica. When they enten come to stay just as it has in other cities. El Reno (Okla.) into the partnership it had been agreed that Herbert should fc American. Schwartz out if the latter at any time wanted to sell on a thin? * * * day notice. When the two arrived in Utica on their ts to Nevasota, Tex.—Just at the opening something went wrong, Schwartz gave notice to Herbert that he wanted to quit the agreed! the reel caught fire, and in an instant the oil-soaked tent housing ness and- return tc . Hartford. Herbert, it is claimed, Kent & Mclnnerberg's moving picture show was destroyed. The pay Schwartz $450 for his share in the partnership within tW 8 loss, to The days. Schwartz came back to this city, but at the end of tent, reel and chairs were consumed; $400 $500. w -have secured a place in the Creagor block and will agreed-upon time the money had not appeared. Herbert showmen a reopen in a few days with a machine to meet the fire risk re- his machine to Newburgh and gave a show there, but kept quirements. receipts. Recently he came back himself and secured enfl*! street 8 [This is like locking the door after the horse was stolen. Why ment in one of the shops. Schwartz saw him on the had P did hot these folk use common sense and get the fireproof ma- asked him for the $450, but Herbert said that the outfit chine first? Ed.] • burned up and that he had lost everything. Schwartz Bg * * * that Herbert told another friend that the outfit had been s* and rr Moving pictures are a great fad with the public at the present He had made efforts to capture Herbert in New York Herbert time, and that is one reason why Eldredge Park, Elmira, N. Y., sylvania cities, but could not find trace of him. again-t his is so popular with the public at the present time. The free'enter- not pay the money and Schwartz brought a suit tainment of moving pictures each evening is an excellent one mer partner, claiming $1,000 damages for fraud. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 393

Film Review. wife in the room the man rises hastily, and the town which is finally captured by the in doing so the doll falls over, one leg enemy. The victorious commander after sticking inelegantly in the air. The tables his arduous toils, and suffering from many THE DOLL MAKER'S DAUGHTER. are turned upon the officer, as it is dis- slight wounds, enters the house of the offi- closed that the figure is a real doll and not cer's sweetheart, where he decides to stay WILLIAMS, BROWN & EART.F, a living being! His mistress shows her during the time he is in the place. The At a small shop where a specialty is made annoyance, and the Prince makes the best exquisite appearance of the lady more than dolls, of mechanical the daughter of the of a foolish situation. pleases him and he settles down in an arm proprietor is busy winding up a model chair and demands refreshment. about her own height The doll walks HAIR RESTORER. She at first refuses, but seeing resistance stiffly from her box and goes through many is useless attends to him and prepares a wonderful antics, which the girl copies very WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE. meal. Alone with the conqueror she plays As the machine runs down in with a dagger and is tempted to take his cleverly. A gentleman, taking advantage of being toy it travels to a corner of the shop life, but throws the weapon down in dis- the alone with his servant steals a kiss as and leans against one of the walls just gust The commander having refreshed she sits on the couch. The sudden entry behind a large box out of sight An idea himself and being attracted of his wife, however, makes the guilty pair by the girl en- suddenly striking the youngster, she dons deavors to make love to her. He is in- quickly draw apart. The good lady, who similar clothes to the figure and enters the terrupted by his guard, one of whom hands is of very muscular proportions, seizes a large case just as the proprietor, her father, him a dispatch. As he is reading this com stick and belabors both man and girl. The ushers in a likely purchaser. The small munication the young lover enters the room maid makes her escape at the earliest op- customer, a Princess, has her governess and going across to his fiancee clasps her portunity; the woman catches hold of her and an officer in attendance. The imperial in his arms. At the general's orders husband and after soundly trouncing him child is enraptured with the supposed doll weapons are immediately pointed at the throws him to the floor.' Kneeling on his which the shopkeeper shows her, and at rash man. The girl aware of her sweet- chest she pulls out his hair by handfuls, once commands the purchase to be made. heart's danger appeals to the officer for not being content until the poor wretch is The proprietor, delighted at his good for- her dear one's life, disclosing in her plea practically hairless. The man crawls to his tune, rubs his hands in self-congratulation her sincere love for him. Ordering the feet as his better half leaves the room, is the goods are taken out. Starting to re- weapons to be put up the commander im- and takiiig his handkerchief from his pocket irrange the cases, he is astonished at see- mediately writes out a pardon for the young covers his bald pate. ng a doll leaning against the wall. Search- man, and allows them to pass out through Rushing from the house the man seeks ng around he discovers his daughter's dis- the guard. Turning as she reaches the out the shop of a well-known hair re- arded garments, and the truth dawns upon door the girl speaks out her heartfelt storer. Purchasing a large quantity he iim that he has just sold his daughter! thanks and gratitude to her friend the carries it home and goes straight to the In a beautiful room her majesty the child enemy. bathroom. Holding his head down over talks in, and as soon as her outdoor gar- the bath he orders his servant to pour the nents are removed, orders her new dolly to LIFE BOAT MANOEUVERS. restorer on his head. A good shower of the le brought in. Her royal father enters the fluid soon brings a huge shock of hair, 'and URBAN-ECLIPSE. oom just as the figure is being wound up, the delighted man seizes a looking glass, The upper deck of an ocean steamer is ind watches with much surprise the various seen with starting off viewing himself admiringly. he is be- crowded immigrants novements. One of the officers in attend- As ing congratulated by the maid his good on a voyage to fresh scenes and pastures ee on his master closely watches the doll wife makes her appearance from her bed- new. By and by, for the practice of the ather suspiciously. Upon being left alone room; When she sees the fresh stock that crew, the boatswain pipes all hands to li the room with the figure, which is stand- her hubby has she puts out her hands with the life boats, and a very busy scene re- ng in an awkward attitude, the officer pulls joy, hoping once more to make a raid. sults from his call. They man the life boats ler hair, and drawing his sword, lightly She makes an attack on him, but he strug- and swing them out on their davitts and a ouches her with it on the leg. These ef- gles vainly to protect himself. The struggle number of immigrants enter. The boats orts to disclose the humanity of the figure goes on until the man, getting his wife near are seen descending the side of the vessel leing^ unsuccessful, he obtains a rat and the edge of the bath, tips the good lady to the water's edge, then pushing off, mak- Ms it near one of her feet He laughs in, and rushes from the room, closing the ing a very effective scene of rescue, and loud, as the poor girl, thoroughly fright- door behind him. Almost immediately the showing the dexterity which could be used ned, rushes away and mounts a chair. door is again fiung open, and the onlookers in a case of actual necessity. iomg to the scared girl, and lifting her are the that rom her position, he kisses and reassures startled to find awful change has taken" place. The hair restorer has IN AN ARMCHAIR. er. As he leaves the room the girl once indeed effective, and the wife now GAUMONT. gain assumes a doll-like attitude. His been appears covered in hair, resembling a bear. Shows the sad plight of an innocent ighness, on entering the room suddenly chases her into another room, young pays a visit and seats him- ees the movement of the girl, and going She husband man who of again darts, locking the self in a strong, narrow chair, whose arms traight up to her looks into her eyes and out which he him. are close together. he attempts to asses his hand over her face, which makes door behind When goes buys muzzle and arise finds it impossible, resembling in a dolly" break forth into a broad smile. The man out a he pole and returns to the house, bringing a way a mouse that has gone into a trap lie man takes her upon his knee and number of men with him. They attach easily, but cannot get out again. The film mdles her. At this moment the officer, rope to the animal and muzzle her. the wanderings of the young man ho has already learned the secret enters a new shows are flock- and gives rise to « room and watches with envy and an- In a large Fair Ground' crowds with the chair attached bear is situations. oyance his master's caresses. He rushes ing to a tent where a wonderful on many humorous inside rouses . performance rom the room in search of his mistress, show. The great enthusiasm, the animal answering so DERVISH'S REVENGE. '- he sees his chief offer to take the girl THE well to its master's bidding. As soon as >r a motor ride. Upon the girl's accept- GAUMONT. n« the the scene is over the man clasps in his Prince leaves the , room, to give The "Dancing Dervish" has been a fa- the young lady assistant his late rders for his machine to be got ready. arms — miliar character to readers of far Eastern he servant. girl once again strikes her. dollish at- tales, although the Western mind cannot tade as she hears the door open. This HER FRIEND, THE ENEMY. well grasp the significance of the endless me, however, it is her father who enters, revolutions on one toe which seems to be id he soon brings the girl to her senses. the favorite religious rite of the Dervish. I he WILLIAMS, BROWN & EARLE. catches her roughly by the arm she This film is uproariously funny. It con- "ks cm the floor and sobs. He orders her The news of an army advancing on the cerns a white man, presumably a French- 1 nse, and has the real doll brought in. town, calls all the garrison out for its de- man, who scoffs lightly at the dancing of s soon as they are alone he locks the fense. A young and eager officer takes a Dervish, and the latter in revenge places »r, takes out the doll and pushes the girl leave of his sweetheart who clings to him a curse upon the stranger, under which the the box. The man then leaves the affectionately, and at the last possible mo- Frenchman dances the Dervish dance, in 3nse and has the box containing his ment releases him fearlessly but with much and out of season, morning, noon and night wgbter carried out A short time after anxiety. The curse following him in his travels, a 'comes his highness, arrayed for the The defenders going out to meet the series of side-splitting situations arise. His ° 0r trip. As he goes down upon one enemy offer a stubborn resistance to the friends try to cure him, but to no avail, * his jealous subordinate walks in, ac- oncoming force. Driven back by numbers and he breaks out into this dance at the "npanted by his mistress. Seeing his they are gradually compelled to retire to most inopportune moments. 394 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD.

LITTLE FREGOLI. cbapeau of an admiral, and forming a min- him, she finds this great attempt is fa- iature ship out of another piece of paper, last, for the pedagogue coming in at thk SOCIETA ITALIANA. she looks the part to perfection. Cutting moment, when the spirit of Napoleon is the The scene opens with a little girl at a out a plume, she fixes it on the admiral's strongest, he takes her on his knee aaj; table, who, instead of attending to her les- chapeau and makes a very good imitation gives her a spanking. son, is trying what she can do with a paper of a field marshal. This not being quite and scissors. The pedagogue, coming in, complete, she takes up a box and empties MR. INQUISITIVE. observing her inattention, admonishes her on to the table a guard of toy soldiers, for the neglect of her studies, commands which immediately follow into line, and ESSANAY. her to put up the paper and take her then, taking up the baton, she directs ber By the time you have finished up laughing aj book, until little of soldiers in a very comical this subject will which she does his back is army you quickly realize that fell turned. fashion. Then with 'one sweep of her "if it doesn't concern you, let it alone and His exit is the cause of the evolution of baton she clears the table of the soldiers. attend to your own business*" is an awfullj the usual child satire of placing the thumb Scissors and paper again come into active good motto, but the young fellow who plan to the nose and outspreading the fingers. use, and she then forms a clown. She next Mr. Inquisitive in the comedy evidently part cap; think As soon as she is certain that the coast is essays the of a grandmother's does not so, but after he gets the clear she commences her paper antics, and then, with the spectacles on her nose and worst of everything we can safely sav ha from the paper in front of her cuts out a knitting in hand, she looks the part to per- journey into Noseyland taught him that mitre of an archbishop, which she places fection. From the grandmother, she rap- lesson. upon her head, and then, quickly forming idly changes into a nun, and from this into Our friend, Mr. Inquisitive, gets an idea a stole, she imitates the gesticulations of a barrister, and argues her case with great in his head that he has to find out about an archbishop while blessing his flock. force and point. everything in sight, so he merrily starts oo Disbanding this costume, she cuts out She now essays a difficult task, and the his way; he first encounters a chicken coop another to represent a clerk of the justices, better to perform this, slu turns her back and his curiosity leads him to thorough!; and looks very comical as she starts to on the audience, and on turning her face inspect it ; his first inspection ends up with write down the charges as the clerk would once more towards them, she looks the em- doors of chicken coops being left open, do. Tiring of this, she next produces a bodiment of the illustrious Napoleon. Like {Continued on Page 397 >

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Association. failing in that way then in the open, to the end that this

line of amusement should be taken from the hands oi 229 Broadway, New York, Aug. 20, 1907. the many and placed in the hands of the few. To the Members of the Moving Picture Exhibitors' As- "In this they also failed.

sociation: "The moving picture business is still controlled bj Dear Sir—At the request of many of the members a the small investor so far as its operation is concerned

meeting of the Association will be held at the Nicola The source of supply, however, is not controlled by tht Theater, Seventy-second street and Third avenue, New small operators and it is the growing greed of the middle York, on Monday, August 26, 1907, at 1 1 o'clock in the man that I shall advise our members and all similar!; morning. interested to fight and fight to the bitter end. Wbj The principal object of this meeting is to unite not should the middle men be allowed to make us stand an only the members of our Association, but also all other deliver? What do they supply? As the boys in tb exhibitors, to obtain better treatment and more reason- gallery would say: 'Where do they get off?' The) able prices from the wholesalers, and if this cannot be don't get off at all—once they get a hold of you, you an done to establish an exchange owned and controlled by theirs. Leave it to them and they will never let loos

1 the individual exhibitors. until they hand you over to the officer of the banknij It is necessary for us to take immediate and aggressive court, who will search you and finding nothing kfl action—we have been working for others long enough will declare you are all in and that you will have to h

—everybody seems to profit by the moving picture busi- born over again, financially speaking, to recover frofl

ness except those who put their money in it. the embrace of the moving picture middle man. Thes yd . Let nothing keep you away from the meeting. fellows ought to be called the 'end men'—when

Remember the date, Monday, August 26, 1907, at 11 finish with them, or, rather, when they finish you, it i o'clock in the morning, at the Nicola Theater, Seventy- time to ring down the curtain and pass out souvenirs fo second street and Third avenue, New York City. the last performance. Very respectfully yours, ."Our association has stood firm during the sera Nicola Seraphine, experience of the past and all members were rewarde President Moznng Picture Exhibitors' Association. with. success and all this at a very slight cost. We hai fulfilled every promise we made and have accomplish* President Seraphine, of the Moving Picture Exhib- all that we have undertaken. We will not be fool* itors' Association, when seen in reference to the above any longer. letter, was hot only willing but anxious to talk on the "Wholesalers disguised as middle men are compete condition of the moving picture business. with what we may call the retailer and we propose t "Through the efforts of our association single-handed find out why this rule won't work both ways.. and alone," he said, "the moving picture business was "At. the meeting to be held at my place, the Nico! a protected from great injury if not destruction by the Theater, Seventy-second street and Third avenue, effort to suspend, on a wholesale scale, the licenses paid August 26, 1907, at II o'clock A. M., we will take stej for and issued to the holders. On the principle that to get on a peace basis with a square deal all arena business is business, three persons who were operating otherwise take such other action as Our rights demani THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 39?

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(Cor.tit.tud jrom Page 394) The Pony Express Rider. .880 ft The Grafter 535 ft

The Gentleman Farmer 720 ft The Tramp Dog.... , 550 ft escaping, and the poor butcher chickens The New Hired Man 575 ft Who Is Who? 500 ft desperate efforts to catch his stray making Bowser's House-Cleaning 675 ft Female Highwayman. 910 ft The Dog Snatcher 595 ft Dolly's Papa 385 ft his hands on a live wire; he He gets Trapped by Pinkertons 750 ft a grain shoot and then wanders LUBIN. fools with Sights in a Great City ft water plug, and what that 475 up to an innocent Gypsy's Revenge 900 ft. him will long be remembered; a coal- <)oes to A Family Outing 600 ft. SOCIETA ITALIANA. next attracts his attention, and oil wagon Snake Hunting .600 ft. next attracts his attention, and coal wagon Oyster Industry 500 ft. Little Fregoli 245 ft. being something new, he starts the faucets When Women Vote 700 ft. File de Chiffonier 694 ft. brings the vengeance of them going and And the Dog Came Back 600 ft. upon him, who gives our curious the driver Winter Day in the Country 750 ft URBAN-ECLIPSE. ducking in gasoline. friend a good Too Much Mothcr-in-Law 700 ft then spot a city fire alarm, but The New Stag Hunt 607 ft. His eyes Papa's Letter 275 ft not fooled with this long before he Poor, But Proud 484 ft. he has Father's Washing Day. 295 ft. alarm; we then have an ex- Torpedo Attack on H. M. S. Dread- turns in the Jamestown Naval Review 500 ft nought 467 ft. cellent tire run, showing the department Life in a South African Gold Mine.. ft coming out of the house down the street, MELIES. 527 find our friend Life Boat Manoeuvers 207 ft up to the box, where they A New Death Penalty 400 ft. then turn the fire ex- The Gypsies ; or, The Abduction 447 ft 5till fooling; they How Bridget's Lover Escaped 500 ft. tinguishers upon him. Not content with The Skipping Cheese 280 ft. 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OUa Fodrida. The Warwick Trading Company, of London, England, inform us that Mr. Will Barker, their managing director, will, by the time this is on the press, be on his way to the States. He purposes to visit every city of note, and make the acquaintance of film dealers and importers. His first visit on reaching New York will be to our office to renew old acquaintanceship and learn what is doing. He will probably stay in New York a week or ten days, and letters addressed to him care of Moving Picture World will be handed to him on his arrival. Published Every Saturday. Recently there appeared in one of the papers twenty Tfco World Photographic Publishing Company, New York. maxims for business workers. Like many other maxims

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1.00 per issue. HELP WANTED : 10c. a line j mini- mind is made up, but count the cost first. 25c. EMPLOYMENT WANTED: (Operators ly) No Charge. Two remarks about employers are much to the point. IMPORTANT.^-We to press on Thursdays and go One is, that "Your employer often appreciates your work ; s are supplied to the wholesale trade on Friday but does not find time to tell you so." There is a certain '~gs. All matter, or advertisements for insertion subtlety in the wording of this remark, and a cynic at my current issue should reach our offices not later than FIRST POST THURSDAY MORNDSG, and if side suggests that "does" should be "will." Perhaps, but is are T$qwrsd; not later than NOON MONDAY. the employer who does find time for so pleasant an occu- nation is never the loser. The other remark is "That order, check, P. O. order or ?einit by express money every man thinks if he were the employer he would act ered letter. Cash enclosed with letter is at the differently." Quite natural, too. But the employee has of the sender. necessarily a confined outlook. He is like a soldier fighting under orders—he knows only in part. The big plan EUROPEAN AGENTS: is with those who command. There are "feints'* in war- INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY fare and "feints" in business. 'What's the good of it?" answer. Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. is a common kick. As a rule only one man can 4o4 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD.

British Manufacturers' or other of the examinations and have secured either the ' Association. preliminary or the higher certificate. An operator apply. ing to have his inserted the register, name on mav be required to produce evidence of general good character to The advantages to be gained by operators and their the satisfaction of the committee of the Kinematograph employers Manufacturers' Association. from a system of examination and registration Every operator appiving to be registered shall of competent operators are -universally recognized ; at the be deemed, in so applying, to agree to it be same time, was evident that for the success of any such bound by these and all other regulations issued by the scheme the management must be entrusted to persons association. who, while possessed of the necessary qualifications as Register.—The Kinematograph Manufacturers' Asso- experts, should be entirely independent, impartial and not ciation shall prepare annually and circulate among those influenced by trade or personal considerations. responsible for the safety of public exhibitions, including The Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers hav- lessees of halls, insurance companies, secretaries of in- ing been formed with the object of forwarding the institutions, public authorities, as well as agents, exhibitors, terests of the industry, and correcting trade abuses, one operators and the kinematograph trade, a list containing of the earliest matters claiming their attention was that the names of all those who are registered operators under of co-operation with operators and exhibitors generally" the above scheme. This list shall state whether the opin the matter of increasing the efficiency and safety of erator holds a preliminary certificate or a higher certifi- exhibitions. association itself kinematograph The com- cate. Any operator may have his full name and address prises practically all British manufacturers of kinema- inserted as part of his entry, and on satisfying the com- tograph films, and a committee was appointed to formu- mittee that he has exhibited publicly for a certain length late the scheme, particulars of which are given below. of time may have brief particulars of such experience In order to secure the necessary location for the exam- stated in addition. inations, as well as to provide educational facilities to Removal from Register.—-The committee may remove those operators desirous of extending their knowledge, from the register the name of any operator who shall in the association solicited, and has been fortunate in secur- or about the performance of his duty, have caused a fire ing, the co-operation of the Northampton Polytechnic by reason of negligence or the breach of the regulations Institute, London, which is an endowed institute well of a public authority, or who shall be guilty of dishonor- known as being foremost in promoting the educational able or disgraceful conduct, or who shall for any other and other interests of the optical and allied trades. The cause whatsoever (whether of a nature above specified or strictly practical nature of the classes and examinations not) in the opinion of the committee exercising an abso- will be insured by their being under the supervision of a lute and uncontrolled discretion, be unfit to be or remain joint committee which includes practical experts. on the register. One or more examinations will be held annually, and the name will be open at first to every operator and exhibitor by Before exercising the above powers to remove application to the secretary on. a form provided below, of an operator, the committee shall give to such an op- and ex- and on payment of the specified fee. erator an opportunity of appearing before them plaining his conduct ; but if the committee after hearing A prospectus of the classes which the' Northampton In- stitute have arranged to hold, for the instruction of any such explanation shall resolve on the exercise of the said operators who may be desirous of extending their knowl- powers they' shall not in any case be bound to give their edge of the principles of optical projection, may be ob- reason for such resolution, and no action shall lie against in to the exercise of tained on. application to the secretary, as above. the committee or association respect Every operator, whether exhibiting on his own account such power, provided that it is exercised in good faith. absolute, discretion and in cr otherwise, is strongly urged to take advantage of this The committee may, in their opportunity of advancing his own status and that of the such manner as they think fit, notify or cause to be has industry, by early application for examination, and those notified to the public that the name of any operator operators qualified for the higher examination are recom- been removed from the register. No action or other pro- mended to apply for the higher certificate, the value of ceedings shall, under any circumstances, be maintainable in notification against any which it is confidently anticipated will rapidly become by the person referred to such recognized by those responsible for the engagement of person publishing or circulating the same, and this regu- person to operators and the arrangement of exhibitions with due lation shall operate as leave and license to any pleadable regard for public safety. publish and circulate such notification and be A register of certified operators will be kept by the accordingly. committee of the Kinematograph Manufacturers' Asso- Every manufacturer in the trade in England is repre- ciation, and will contain the names of those who have sented in this association with the exception of the Pathe, received one or other of the certificates and have satisfied Freres and Vitagraph.. the committee as to their eligibility to be placed on, and to remain on, the register, under the conditions herein- after mentioned.. get youf NOTICE.—If you wistfc to |

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Frozen Meat Industry, New Zealand (part of • 5 series) .525 Itt. The Animated Picft«&s>e in fcfii© Industrial Buenos Ayres, Miscellaneous Industries 300 ft. Leibig's Cattle Ranches ("Oxo"), Brazil 300 ft. Launch of H. M. S. "Dreadnought" 150 ft. 48 Rupert Street, London, W., July 29, 1907. Launch of H. M. Cruiser "Natal" 75 ft. Burmah : Teak Industry 175 ft. Editor Moving Picture World: Romance of the Railway: London &. Northwestern Dear Sir—While we on this side are delighted to learn Preparing the Roadbed ft. from the Moving Picture World of the successful pro- 150 Rail Rolling at Crewe ft. duction of an industrial subject illustrating the shoemak- 375 Making Coach Wheels ft. ing manufacture at Brockton, Mass., and appreciate your 225 Building Passenger Coaches ft. remarks on the commercial and educational value of such 250 Building Passenger Coaches and Boiler Mak- series, we would like to point out that the particular ing 300 ft. subject you notice in the issue of July 13 by no means Foundries and Turning Shops ft. "opens the field for moving picture men for the photo- 300 Constructing Locomotives and graphing and exhibiting of the different industries of the Running Trains *. world." 300 ft. Operating the L. System. ft. The field was opened up by us some years ago, and & N. W. 300 it is every day opening wider on this side. Witness: Target Practice in the British Navy. 200 ft. Series on "The Building of a Railway" roadbed, track, — Canadian Industries (included in "Wonders of cars, boilers, engines, the whole works of the London Canada") 735 ft. Northwestern Railway at Slate in & Crewe; Quarrying .' Life of the Bee. . . , 550 ft. Wales; Granite Quarrying at Aberdeen; Printing and Making Foundation for Honeycomb 150 ft. Publishing the World's News The Tatler (Illustrated Launch of an Italian Battleship. "75 ft. Journal), The London Evening News; The Making of Ostrich Farming, South Africa 200 ft.. Whiskey (complete processes) ; Production of Cham- Tunny Fishing off Tunis 250 ft. pagne ; Whaling Industry ; Herring and Tunny Fishery Atlantic Whaling . .450 ft Sago, Rubber, Tea, Coffee, Cotton and Tobacco Produc- Tweed Industry, Isle of Harris 350 ft tion; Gold and Diamond Mining; Shipbuilding, Launch- Granite Quarrying, Rubislaw, Aberdeen 200 ft. ing, etc, etc. all produced by this company in series — Scotch Herring Fishery 500 ft. which illustrate every detail of manufacture and produc- Production of Champagne 325 ft tion. Publishing The Tatler (Illustrated Journal) 365 ft. The commercial and educational value of such series is Making Electro Plates for The Tatler 450 ft. untold, and the possibilities are enormous, affecting every Diamond Mining (De Beers) 360 ft. industry, every calling. Dim interiors, with us, offer no Industries of Natal 475 ft. obstacles, and photographic results are secured which are Preparing to Launch H. M. S. "Bellerophon" superior to those taken by full daylight exposure, inas- ' (July 27) 150 ft. much as they are produced without shadow. Launch of H. M. S. "Bellerophon" 250 ft. Lead and Zinc Mining, Rhodesia 140 ft. i Yours faithfully, Slate Quarrying at Port Dinorwic, North Wales. .810 ft. Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd., Fruit Packing in Cape Colony 85 ft. Thomas Clegg, Publicity Department. Life at a South African Gold "Mine 480 ft. Madeira Wicker Chair Industry 175 ft. [The following is a list of films and their lengths, and Preparing an Ocean Liner for a Voyage 200 ft. as they readers publish may be of interest to our we them Hop Picking in Kent. 175 ft. in full ; and as the Kleine Optical Co. are the American Cultivation and Harvest of Strawberries 150 ft. agents, they will willing subject no doubt be to order any Ceylon Tea Cultivation (included in series) 985 ft. sdected by intending purchasers. Ed.] Industrial Series of Animated Pictures Published ry the Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd. The Kinematograph Title - Length Comparison of Agricultural Methods, Europe and America ft. ; .550 and Lantern Weekly British North Borneo— The English Trade Journal

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flat From a car ahead of a locomotive, Operator t red Bal- shufer, of the Actograph Company of New York, journeyed from Fonda to Sacandaga Park, taking a moving picture of f he scenery along the F., J. & G. steam division. The trip wa- made m company with Conductor Scott Houghtaling, General Passen- ger Agent Robert M. Colt, Leighton A. Hall, private secretary to General Superintendent W. H. Collins", and Manager Mosher for the motion picture company.

Scenes were taken from the train as it approached he local steam station, including a view of the Broadalbin trai:;, which

in .- was standing the station. The film was exposed 1 all of In reply to our note in editorial columns August 3 we re- the picturesque points along the route. ceived several answers; all except one were employees, the ex- As the train neared Sacandaga Park a picture was taken which ception being Miss E. M. Martine, of East Orange, N. J., who shows the beautiful entrance. The pictures, as soon as finished,

for the past twelve years has been well known to the trade as will be placed on the market after being tried out in t ;e Halt an expert film colorist We availed ourselves of an opportunity touring car on the midwsasai£«lhe park for a week. to call upon her last week, and in the course of an interesting Pictures were taken of the procession of Mecca Tempi. Mystic interview learned that her fame was not confined to New York, Shriners to Coney's hot sands August 14, and a very satisfactory but from every large city in the States work was sent to her, film is the result. We notice in the procession most of the and it speaks well for the quality of the work sent out that principal officers of the Divan of A H. 1324-5, also many promi- every sample order brings repeats. Films were being colored nent-nobles of Kishmet and other temples. We are promised while we were there for Algeria, Porto Rica and South Africa. that when Mecca resumes her solemn commemorations r.n addi- From France films purchased from the' manufacturers there are tional incentive will be presented our own and visiting Nobles shipped to New York, colored at Orange and returned to Paris. to see as others saw us; how we appear when we are out for a English manufacturers also send their products over for coloring. good time. Visitors to Tony Pastor's this coming week will have an * * *

' opportunity to see for themselves the quality of this artist's Ames, Iowa, is to have a moving picture show, the first of work. "The Diamond" is the headliner with film songs, "Sacra- its' kind in that place. mento," "Good-bye, Caroline," "Good-bye, Glory" and a "Fire Janesville, Wis.—Fire which -destroyed the moving picture ma- Song." chine and booth at the Airdorae Theater caused a panic of Miss Martine aims to give satisfaction, believing that one well patrons at the Myers Theater adjoining, and a panic followed. pleased customer is worth keeping. We learned that old worn which was only stopped by prompt action of the police and actors, films were very much improved with coloring and that they who reassured the theater patrons. were given a new lease of life. * * * The studio at East Orange is fully equipped to cope with William Carroll, twenty-three years old, of 296 St. Nicholas large numbers of orders, the employees are carefully trained and avenue, Ridgewood, L. I., N. Y., was arrested by Detective know their work, but before leaving the studio every foot of Engel, of the Eighty-fifth Precinct, for conducting a moving pic- 'film is carefully examined and if necessary the work is gone ture show at the Atlantic League Park, Ridgewood, without a over again. permit He was arraigned before Magistrate Gilroy in the Flush- Just a whisper in conclusion: Customers find a journey to ing Police Court and fined $2. East Orange too much for their nerves. So Miss Martine is * * * looking for suitable premises in New York to open a studio The oft-pictured fisher couple whose only child was drowned we will tell you all about it in due time. at sea stood silent on the beach at the foot of Twenty-third * * # street Coney Island, recently.' The laughing waters of the gay Two friends of the writer returned last week from the James- resort for once took on the sadness of the sad sea waves, and town Exposition and were bubbling over with praise for the three hundred bathers stopped splashing to gaze in awe. moving pictures of the Shredded Wheat Co.'s exhibit They Clasping their hands the old fisherman and his wife prayed said they had seen hundreds of films and slides, but none to com- for a child, and as they prayed there came a raft from sea, bear- pare with those exhibited by this company. The consensus of ing the body of a mother, about the neck of which clung a little opinion among the visitors was that the entertainment would baby, sent from heaven, the simple-minded folk believed, to take be cheap at 25 or So cents each. They advise every one to the place of their own lost child. Other actors, roughly garbed .visit and take note of the way the expert handles the films and as life-savers, and fishermen—all working for a moving picture slides. concern—plunged into the waves, dragged the raft ashore, pulled A feather in the cap of our friend, Charley E. Earle, and one the body of the woman up the beach and carried the child to well deserved - - the fisherman's wife. * * * The acting was so realistic that an old man protested indig- The life motion pictures and stereopticon exhibition which nantly that the child, Virginia Fulton, aged two, should play the has drawn thousands of people to Celoron Park this season, has part of the stranded orphan. Virginia lives with her parents in been of such a character as to elicit favorable comment on the East Sixteenth street Sheepshead Bay. part of all who have had the opportunity of witnessing it One of the moving picture men assured the alarmed spectator The exhibition is given by William M. Conway, of Chicago, that the child on the raft was only a doll, but when the drama Who has had long experience with moving picture entertainment moved shoreward the old man, seeing the seemingly lifeless and, in addition, appeared in vaudeville as raconteur and the live the the waves, ran after has a / mother with baby at mercy of mimic Speaking to our representative, he said: useless protest, and called Policeman Whalen, of the Coney "The prejudice against motion picture shows was caused Island station. t largely by the unsteadiness and flickering of the pictures together When Whalen arrived the "mother," Miss Florence Turner with improper focusing, which had a tendency to injure the eye- very much alive, and the baby, safe but wet were being bundled sight of persons who were given much to that sort of enter- into an auto. tainment My endeavor has been to secure pictures with the * * * minimum amount of flicker and of such a character, ethically, C. G. Human, manager of the Hancock Opera House, will com- as to afford the kind of exhibition as will best conduce to the mence building two of the finest and largest high-class vaude- welfare of the patrons of my shows. I am positive," he con- ville and moving picture theaters in Texas. They are part ol tinued,- "that these exhibitions, representing as they do the evo- the circuit of fifteen he is putting up -in Texas. This new at- lution of the old magic lantern, are but in the infancy of their traction will be something interesting, for the characters show

development The educational value of motion pictures cannot will be actually heard speaking. . • be overestimated. Their power to take one without leaving * * - * home to the uttermost parts of the earth and see not only the Hundreds of lives were endangered when the moving ptctuK lands but the people and their costumes and customs will do machine in Alec Mann's nickelodeon, at 1861 Post street, San much to abolish that soul-destroying race prejudice which is Francisco., caught fire from an electric wire. But for the prornp the curse' of the modem world. I predict that the future has action -of the operator a panic would have ensued, Severs much in store for these shows, that no mean part of the col- hundred people, the audience of the last performance of the day, lege curriculum of the next generation will be given to life were leaving the building, but they had no inkling of the fire

motion pictures. I have been handicapped by scores of electric owing to the cool head of the operator. . lights in the open air, yet have by careful and proper adjust- The machine had just shut down for the night Be,ow rij ment of rheostats and carbons been able to make good in the operator the well-crowded theater was slowly being ernpnea open air." In the hum of conversation the moving audience did not hear THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 407

followed by the crackling of burning films. would order them removed temporarily and later pass an or- sharp e.Nulosion, • flames lighted the place, dinance covering the matter. . In an instant the but the crowd mis- signal for flaring light protest against the operation took the Janger the of the moving pic- The of these instruments was Quickly directed chiefly at moving ture machine. the operator threw a cover over the a picture exhibition in the Gearin fire blaze ami rung in for the department. When the engines Building at Thirteenth and Washington. This place has an arrived the flames had been extinguished and the theater was electric piano that is said to entertain or disturb residents for emptied. The damage amounted to about $100. blocks around, as the case may be. There are a number of first- class family hotels in the neighborhood and the boarders consti- Some lime ago the store 206 Genesee street, Utica, N. Y., tuted themselves a voluntary "Society for the Prevention ol was leased for three years to N. Poolos, of Auburn, a Greek, Unnecessary Noises" and were represented recently before the and he engaged C. C. Darrow, of the same city, to remodel license committee. They said that the incessant music had it if it the store and convert into a place of amusement for the ex- ceased to have a charm and that was not stilled the boarders hibition ut moving pictures. Mr. Poolos has a similar place at threatened to desert en masse and the proprietors would be Burlington, Vt, and he thought it would be a good stroke of ruined. business to establish another. He is a successful business man Members of the committee added their personal testimony as and stands well with the Greek merchants of Utica. Mr. Dar- to the unpleasantness of these noises and instructed the license row began to remodel the store, but learned that the police- had officials to notify the owners to remove the players at once. If stopped work on the structure' because it did not comply with the the order is not obeyed, the Council will revoke any license it 163d city ordinance. This requires that in any building, erected, sees fit and put these places out of business at its meeting any part of which shall be used as a public hall, the building Wednesday. In the meantime Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald shall be fire-proof; the plans and specifications shall be approved will draft an ordinance covering the order. Either the players by the Common Council before beginning the construction there- will be declared a nuisance or they will be licensed so heavily of, and this shall also apply to existing buildings altered; and as to be practically prohibited.

it is to be furnished with fire alarm and with automatic sprink- .'*** lers to be approved by the chief of the fire department No Al Reeves and Andy Lewis, two well-known theatrical men, plans have been submitted to the Common Council, consequently together with about thirty show girls, woke up Fort Hamilton, chief engineer not they have not been approved, and the has Brooklyn, N. Y., and had a string of church folk in their wake. approved the fixtures. Chief Sullivan regards the place as dan- They had gone to Fort Hamilton to take some moving pictures ;erous. to be used in connection with their show, which opens up some The work on the building is not yet complete and it is now place some time next week, or some week, so the press agent stopped Mr. Darrow says he was not aware that there was said. intention violating my such ordinance and he had no of any It takes too long to tell what they were trying to do, but after >rdinance. He has built a score of such amusement places, aad stopping at the brewery and washing down the dust accumulated builling permit is mew that where a new was to be erected a from their long ride, somebody shouted to "get ready." be obtained from the building department; but there is no Out popped a Hebrew from the front door of the brewery wilding department in Utica and in no place is a permit re- and following him an Irish woman. Then came—oh, yes—then in accordance hired for repairs. He has constructed the house came an Irish boy and then a policeman (the first one seen in relation ith the rules of the National Board of Underwriters in Fort Hamilton this Summer); and then—The Girls. They all the houses of this kind and they are very stringent and are started after the Hebrew, who, by this time, was behind a bush atest issued, bearing date June 16 last That part of the struc- about a block away from the brewery eating blackberries. He nre which is to be occupied the picture machine is lined by saw them all the time; sure, he saw 'em. The man with the rith done 24-pound galvanized iron and everything has been picture machine followed in the rear, of course. a make it fireproof. Mr. Poolos says he has no intention of "Beat it, Arthur I" (That was the Hebrew's name.) Out riolating any ordinance and will apply to the Common Council popped "Arthur," and the bunch, who by this time were getting the building has been in ordinance requires. Work on the closer and closer, started after him again. Arthur made straight irogress for several weeks, and the nature of it has been known for the old dock. Al Reeves and Andy Lewis were mopping ' all who pass that way. perspiration from their brows by this time, but were still in the * * * chase and giving instructions. They arrived. Arthur felt of The borough decided to tackle the of Homestead, Pa., has the water and shivered, and the woman—she shivered, too, in iroblem Rott of regulating the phonograph and Burgess Louis sympathy. ecently ordinance it unlaw- placed his signature to an making "Come on now, girls; get ready! Stand back, people; make ul for these instruments to nickelodeons or other places to use way for us, please. Be nice now; be nice." 1 extent that they become a nuisance. "All ready—go 1" yelled Lewis, and Arthur (that's the Hebrew, * * * you know) came running down from behind a big tree, followed The Standard Theater Company has been organized in Hamil- by the Irish woman, the red-headed boy, the policeman and The 0, 0., with L. J. Wittman and C. J. Killen as the principal Girls. romoters. They will exhibit moving pictures and will occupy Into the water went the Hebrew and the old woman and the e Scott Building on High street Irish cop. !" shouted Reeves, * * * "Stand back, everybody, and give us a chance but the kids wouldn't stand. Seeing moving pictures in the city jail is the unusual experi- "Come on, then," yelled Andy. of James Cox,, was placed in the inner sanctum of the who About this time fifteen or twenty boys in bathing suits jumped ity bastile, Birmingham, Ala., very much under the influence in the water and what they did to Arthur, his wife, the cop and f strong drink, according to the charge written against his the boy was a-plenty. ante on the jail register. "Stung again," said Reeves. Not selfish in his pleasure, the deluded man knocked several "Oh, Lord, I'm glad it's all over," came from the bunch of on the jail door and after securing the ear of Warden chorus girls. ifield invited him in to share the pleasures. "Any more pictures to be taken, Mr. Lewis?" asked a chorus "Come in and see the pictures," the prisoner said to Mr. lady. oenfield. whereupon the warden's hair stood straight up. "Naw, naw, no more pictures. Not at Fort Hamilton, any- What pictures?!' finally succeeded in asking. he way. Say, kid, where can we get a car for New York? Come To humor the deluded man the warden went on the inside and on, girls. Ladies and gentlemen, these pictures will be seen awhile with the looking at the bare wall, commenting man at one of the leading New York theaters next week, and" the beauty of the scenery in the pictures. * * * Disgusted, the warden turned his charge in the cell and re- tted to his in Broad street, York, are making wagers office. \ . Curb brokers New His only remark was: "Everybody is going mad on this moving as to who will show up best in a series of moving pictures that re business." Arthur Hewitt, a photographer, of 123 Fifth avenue, has taken * * * of them at their work. Three hundred yards of film were exposed Proprietors of picture exhibitions and other places of at the close of trading, when the stock slump was at its height m moving isement in Portland, Ore., must do away with phonographs, and the brokers were almost frantic in their buying and selling. ^c pianos and other alleged musical devices or forfeit their The camera was in the office of F. E. Warner & Co., at 30 ses. This is the decision of the license committee of the Broad street opposite the curb market, and stocks were for a ic brokers to jl Complaint was made that these mechanical players, few moments almost forgotten, so eager were . the ral of prin- good-natured rush for. the center J. B. which are operated outside of show places on , get in the picture. In a streets, are a nuisance, and the committee decided that it Sherman was thrown high in the air and odds of ten to one — "

4o8 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. are being laid that His will be the most prominent figure in the be given and finds that it is safe, the exit or exits of the said picture. The films are to be shown on the theatrical circuits hall or room sufficient and accessible, and also stating the nun. of to permitted to here and abroad as illustrating American energy. mum number persons be be present at am * * * one time. Charles Merrello 'and Joseph Mateucci plan to open their 3. That the light or picture machine shall be operated only k picture parlors at Smith street, in a competent and experienced person, who shall be a new moving 159 the Hess citizen of block, Perth Amboy, N. J. The picture machine will be under the United States and over twenty-one years of age. exhibition shall the management of Mr. Merrello. 4. That such operation and be had and given * # • so called, shall only on week days, and not continue later than Charleston, Ga.—Sheriff Martin is running a moving picture 12 odock p.m. school school show by order of the Circuit Court. One of the numerous 5. That no child of age, during hours, and no shows was obligated to a building contractor and it was said child under sixteen years of age, at any time, shall be permitted that the proprietor was preparing to leave" Charleston, so the con- to be present unless accompanied by adult person. tractor had an attachment issued against the establishment 6. For each place or plant conducted as a moving pictuu A subsequent order of the court was issued, allowing the exhibition there shall be paid to the Chief of Police of this vi show to continue business, but appointed a deputy sheriff to lage for the benefit of said village on or before Monday nooa collect the proceeds and for the first time in Charleston a busi- of each week a fee of $6 and his receipts therefor shall consti- ness of the kind is conducted under the auspices of the court. tute a permit to conduct business .until Monday noon of the * * * following week, such receipt however, being at all times given Another moving picture show is to be opened in the Mausert and accepted subject to the conditions of this resolution. block, on Park street, North Adams, Mass. It is conducted _by 7. Before any pictures are exhibited to the public the saint Hiller & Dagersch New York Enterprise Company. They will shall be exhibited to and approved by the Chief of Police, also open the show in the quarters vacated by "Wonderland," which all street advertisements of such shows shall be subject to the

was conducted by Baker & Clairmoiit, of North Adams. . approval of said Chief of Police. „ •, * * * *~ * * *.\ Robert Patton, of Dayton, O., will in the near future erect a CHRONICLES OF THE KHAN. new $6,000 moving picture theater at Fifth and Linden streets. The building will be 26x53 feet, and the theater will be care- Moving Pictures. fully and artistically designed. I knew Old Bill Teeple's ghost was outside waiting till Big * # * Bill got through picking thistles out of various parts of hit

The Oklahoma Film Exchange, of Oklahoma City, O. T., has body with Aunt Lucy's darning needle. Big Bill has to ride just opened with all new stock. They also handle machines and home on the loads of grain, and, as the barley was pretty mii supplies. Their address is 221 W. California street dling thistley this year, he has been leading the strenuous lift * * * He had a sort of operating table rigged out in the drive ban Frank W. Spreeter, of Cohoes Moving Picture Exhibit Co., and with the assistance of the 'Orae boy and a few large mirror Cohoes, N. Y., opened up to big business last week after run- borrowed from the house he made quite a job of it. When tk ning all Summer to fair business. He is going to close for two massacre was over and all was silence Old Bill Teeple's ghost or three weeks to put in a new front in his theater there. . stole into the Wigwam: * * * "I was over to Jericho Junction the other night," began Old

Mr. A. A. Hall, president of the Watertown Music Co., is in Bill's spook, "and I dropped in to see some movin' pictures i Troy managing their Wonderland Theater, on River street The the town hall. I must say that they were mighty crude and not business is increasing day by day, and if indications count, this, to be compared with some of the moving pictures that I hart theater will no doubt do the banner business in Troy. seen. * * * "Do you know that every scene and every sound on this earl LICENSE MOVING PICTURE SHOWS. ever since it has come forth out of the void have- been recorded The measureless depths of space beyond are a vast film whid The Berlin police has deemed it necessary to warn public records unerringly every movement and every sound. The soun school teachers in that city of the perils to which young girls waves made by St. Paul on Mars Hill are still traveling, an are exposed in attending moving picture shows. if you behave ydurself some day you may be privileged to sa If these are perilous there, they are more dangerous here. Our Paul and hear his great oration from his own lips. police is far fewer in number than in Berlin and far less able "Some place far in space you could hear and see the battk to watch them. Less supervision over crowds is maintained of Waterloo; there's a moving picture worth seeing! On here than in Berlin. Young girls are allowed to wander here guide to take you to the spot, in space where the battle of Trafel more freely than there. ^ gar is going on to-day, for the waves of sound made by tH These moving picture "shows are multiplying in this city. They thunder of its cannon and the shouting of its captains are stB take little capital. They admit crowds of people at 5 cents a rolling outward, and the light waves which display the SMS head. They are not under supervision as to entrances and exits keep them company. You have no idea what space means, If like theaters and halls. In Berlin, many of them are objection- like talking to an Old Country man about the size of the Domin- able. In this city and in this country, while now and then a ion of Canada. He can understand distances, say, from Londot miles bi bit common and ' vulgar, they are not, save in rare instances, to Glasgow, but when you talk about thousands of licentious or indecent But they bring a host of people togetber thinks you are joshing him. at a low price in the dark. "I went with some American shades the other day to ss These places of amusement should have a license and super- Custer's last battle, and it certainly was a lu-lu. Rain-jn-tbt vision. Their pictures should be passed upon before they appear. Face and Sitting Bull and Whistling Elk were along with o Their audiences ought to be under sufficient police watchfulness There was an object lesson for youl Such a pitiful sight ya to prevent serious abuses. Philadelphia Press. never saw. Human beings killing and tearing one another 1* * * * wolves. MOVING PICTURE SHOWS LICENSED. "You know that I'm a Fenian Raid veteran," said Bill Teeplt's ghost, sheepishly; "and the other night I hunted up the spcl Provisions Under Which Village Board of Trustees Allow the battle of goin' on. I had a 'Mer"" Their Operation. where Ridgeway was friend 'long with me—a very decent chap, too—and I Resolved, That during the pleasure of the Board of Trustees thought he would hurt himself laughin', but after it was of the village of Canandaigua, moving picture shows, except as I got the guide to turn on the battle of Bull Run; and it ft conducted in the duly licensed opera house, be permitted to my turn to laugh. Talk about Longboat 1 Why, lots of conduct business in this village in accordance with the follow- fellers had Longboat skinned a mile." ing conditions. and not otherwise; viz: Old Bill Teeple's ghost sat smiling reminiscently for a w 1. No public operation or exhibition shall be had until there and then continued: shall- be filed with the clerk of this board a certificate of the "I had my reasons for wantin' to see the picture of RidgeW i Underwriters Association of New York State that the electric I wanted to find out how I got hurted. I always thought wiring and fixtures, except service connection, has been exam- I was hit by a spent bullet or something; but I fell over ined and found in a satisfactory condition; and that any change fence—or, rather, the fence fell over me. I really never thoni therein shall be likewise examined and certified. that I could move as quick as I did that day. That's the 2. That no public operation or exhibition shall be had or the angels keep a ghost humble. When he gets gay, they given until there shall be filed with the clerk of this board a him out, and let him watch himself for one day—for one W certificate or statement from a Fire Warden that he has ex- day—an' that's generally enough. The sassiest of them ca scnest^3 amined the assemblage hall or room where the exhibition is to at night without a word to say. It's a great educative — —

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in your histories are to-day the : [he greatest men humblest of Moving Picture Exhibitors' Nothing breaks up Napoleon Bonaparte more than to rhosts. Association. see where he made a mess of things. [0 out and "This old earth is a great big book of illustrations, for use schools of the next world. n the lust "If you want to see what greed and and pride and bigotry Regular Meeting. ave done, the living scenes are there for you. I have sat for the Invincible sailing the Channel. I A meeting of this association was held at Nicola lays watching Armada up ave watched for weeks the Crusaders struggling toward Jeru- Seraphine's theater, Third avenue and Seventy-second alem—another fool procession—and I have seen the mob stone street, New York, Monday, August 26. Nicola Seraphine, Stephen to death. "I have seen the fight between Heenan and Sayers, and Heenan the president, called the meeting to order, with a fair rtainly got the double-cross; and I have listened to Demos- ;e sprinkling of renters and nickelodeon proprietors, but it henes for hours. "These pictures are for the purpose of teaching people that was found there was not a representative gathering of are not to spoil the next world as they spoiled this one. hey members, so that very little business could be done. Mr. Tiere is always a good spirit with you to show you the folly

f the thing. He points out to you what a beautiful, what a Mosher, of the Actograph Company, was called upon to world this was, and then shows us the Battle of Gettys- eavenly voice the sentiments of the renters and their attitude to urg or Lundy's Lane, or the size of Corinth or Paris or v the association. In the course of his remarks he said he "Are there no pleasant pictures recorded in space ?" I ventured was not interested in nickelodeons as a proprietor, nor inquire. Yes—yes, there are," replied Old Bill Teeple's ghost, hesitat- would he or the company he represented ever own one. igly. "Yes, there are, of course; but I followed one man from He did not think it just for manufacturers or renters to is cradle to his grave, and he was only what I would call real appy for a few hours during all that time. I have seen where own them as it gave them a very unfair advantage, and iccess—what men hoped and longed for, what they strove for he suggested that renters should refuse to support all rought them agony and despair, and I have seen other fellows 'ho were good and lucky that they didn't get what they wanted. such and get their film from a source that was uncon- people talk about the Recording "You Angel. That's right; taminated. ut you're only got a child's conception of what it means. There a Recording Angel all right, but on a grander scale than Messrs. Miller, Mercer, Barker and Seraphine having uman minds can grasp. Hark!" until !" addressed the meeting, it was agreed to adjourn 'Cock-a-doo-dle-doo-00 ' - "Why don't you wring that rooster's neck?" growled Old Bill Thursday, September 5, when it is hoped that a larger eeple's ghost, as he vanished through the wall. The Khan in number of members would be present, at 11 a. m., in oronto Star. (There are a few good ideas in the above for film subjects.—Ed.) Nicola Theater, Seventy-second street and Third avenue.

Film Review. hangers, where they await the return of another room, where a fat man is seen the human arsenal. All this is accomplished making up, the result of which is shown THE TIRED TAILOR'S DREAM. without the aid of helping hands. The va- to the audience. Hearing footsteps, our rious articles seem endowed with human fireman is instantly alert, and the leading BIOGRAPH. intelligence and go about their work in a lady passes by bearing a beautiful bouquet This production comes at a most season- business-like manner. When our bellicose of flowers. He attempts to intercept her, le time. Now, when the young man's bully re-enters, the suit, still possessed of hut she scornfully waves him away and en- flcy turns to a new Fall suit and verdant apparent life, proceeds to place itself un- ters her room and our peeping Tom imme- ihire takes on its cloak of gold, the knight aided upon his Apollo-like figure in lieu of diately glues his eye to the chink and what the needle and thread toils restlessly for the old one, which he discards. As he de- he sees we also see depicted on the screen. « clink of gold. Herman Stitch, an old parts, he, in payment, throws into the air In this instance the make-up is extremely dor, worn out by the arduous task of per- a roll of notes big enough to choke a chim- good and the devolution of a perfect woman iling that corporal work of mercy, ney. Herman now awakes with a start and is complete when we see the leading lady lothing the naked," sits dozing in his is relieved to know that all this happened taking off her wig, throwing off her beads, op. He falls into a sound sleep and during his sojourn in Nodland. This is un- taking off the India-rubber inflated bust, earns, oh such a dream 1 Here follows doubtedly the funniest film ever made, as until she stands before us a man. Turning s hallucination: The door opens and well as the most mystifying. around, he catches the eye of Peeping Tom owling Hector from the sun-seared at the door and he instantly orders him sppes of the Pampas Plains, enters and away. mands his suit of clothes. It isn't fin- THE FIREMAN AT THE THEATER. The next scene to which our fireman's Kd—nor even started. With gun in hand curiosity leads him has two occupants, one ITAJJANA CINES. e obstreperous ogre points to the clock being the star and the other being a colonel A warns our friend that he will return in No modern theater nowadays is fully admirer in the full glory of his regimentals, t hour, and, if his suit isn't finished by equipped without its attendant firemen, and busily engaged in making love to the in- en—well, he will indulge in a little target we are introduced to one who is placed on tense delight of the audience and of Peep- actice. Poor Herman is surely up duty behind the scenes. He evidently has ing Tom. A merry clown appears in the Mst it. He sits paralyzed with a fearful a large heart, for as a ballet girl comes to- corridor. His silent footfalls are not tapation of taking on weight by means ward her dressing room he tries hard to heard by the fireman, who is so intent with leaden bullets, for he realizes his utter attract her attention and to make love to the scenes that he is witnessing that he al- iplessness and must needs bow to the in- her, which she repulses, telling him to at- lows the clown to approach him, so noise- itable, when his faithful tools get busy. tend to his duty. lessly had he appeared upon the scene, and « chalk, arousing them from their hectic A group of girls now appear and our take from his belt the turnkey, and going "ua, starts off with the square and, as fireman ogles and grins at the bevy of girls, to the stand Merry Andrew proceeds to * bolt of cloth unrolls itself, they mark who treat him with a fair amount of amuse- turn on the water. Pattern, followed by the shears which ment and laugh at his ungainly gait and The hose, the nozzle of which is held in ' «t out. The clothes brush, anxious to his awkward love-making. Vanishing into the hand of Mr. Fireman in such a way re °* tne work, smoothes out the their rooms, they leave him alone to the that to his great astonishment he instantly *h T? B™- The disintegrated suit now goes to solitary curtain and the corridor. Tiring of gets a wetting and in his confusion trying machine, which sews it up with lighten- acting as sentinal, he peeps into the dress- to stop the water flowing from the nozzle, nke rapidity. Finished, it places itself ing-room, where what he sees is vividly he half drowns himself. The actors and m ironing table and the tailor's goose brought out on the screen through the. peep- actresses, hearing the noise and commotion sses it out As the coat, vest and pants hole showing a ballet girl trying her steps. outside, open the doors of their dressing- Pressed they make their way to the Having satisfied his curiosity, he comes to rooms to ascertain the cause, with which all P

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are treated to a cold shower bath, each arid CAB 23. way to the station the policeman runs jm all trying to get out of the way of the an inoffensive old Irishwoman, and stream on S3 of water. Gradually getting out SELIG. complaining, takes her into custody across the stage, in which a trap .door is loads her into the cab also. The adventures of open, "Mr. Fireman, afraid to let go of the Cab- 23 and its "skid- policeman is The a poor driver and as'-- hose, is led with them, doo" driver have been taken advantage of and , not- noticing the adventures of Cab 23 in a \ cry to produce an unrivalled uneif the trap door, falls through to the scene piece of film pected manner; with great care! '. ssness tl ' below, comedy. . < where he lays for a moment dazed manages to overturn the cab, ejecting and half stunned. The cab driver's home opens the pic- the occupants; the horse runs rway; rkj This scene represents the fairy coming ture, it being evident that the man is tired escape. driver and junk dealer Biddy" i^j from underground, and the water being —probably from his work of the night be- dragged out of the ruins more dead tk turned off forehand does not wish to go out; his by the same clown who turned alive and the cab itself is a total wreck. it on, the scene proceeds. The curtain is wife, however, wishes him to do so, and turned finally he brings his old horse out of the — up and underneath the stage the w- , . . . working mechanism of the fairy, with Mr. stable and, hitching him up to the cab, Fireman crouching behind, and having only drives off to see what the day will bring half recovered his senses, rises with the forth, which proves to be plenty. fairy. Finding himself the observed of all Arriving at the stand, cabbie's first fare observers, he keeps crouched down behind is decidedly not a "fair" one, but a negro and then the ballet appears on the stage and wench of darkest hue, who deposits her our fireman is observed and surrounded. basket of laundry on the seat of the cab The curtain is rung down and our fireman and ensconces herself inside. It seems, is igmominiously freed from his position in however, that the fare is not to cabbie's the theater. liking and he drives so roughly as to throw both washing and washerwoman out of the vehicle and leaves the wench storming in SLAVERY OF CHILDREN. One of the best paying Moving the middle of the road with her washing ITALIANA CINES. scattered around her. Picture . Shows in the State of The scene opens in the grape-growing His next fafe is a Rube and his wife Pennsylvania will be sold at a district, where a group of healthy children who are seeing the city, and from whom bargain. It is located in a are busy loading up the baskets. he obtains their, money before he lets them A well- booming little city of 10,000. dressed man appears and engages in con- into the cab, and after a short ride in- No opposition. Low running versation with the boys, whom he fires with duces them to get out to see some sight and enthusiasm at the thoughts of gold to be drives off, leaving them in despair. Get- expenses and fine location. Only obtained according to his promises and ting back quickly, the cab driver manages $9,400.00 will secure the good shows them bills of large denomination. to run over and scatter- the contents of will and following articles : The boys call their companions, who are two push carts and finally regains his told about the fortunes to be gained by go- stand. I No. 6 Powers Elachlnc. ing his away as apprentices to the gentleman. Now the cab driver gets —a tough I Behr Broo. Plana. They lead him to their parents, who are citizen appears and insists on getting into I Electric Sign, Pine Front. soon willing to sign away the liberty the cab; the driver objects and asks for Theatre of Elevated Floor, I3S j their children. The man makes the tour money, but gets a licking instead and the Chairs (need more). of the village gathering in recruits, his last tough taking his hat and coat, kicks the Everything to run business. conquest being a girl, who is the only sup- unfortunate driver out of his road and Rent payable monthly in advance. No fro;i port of an aged man, but on the great in- mounting the box drives off himself to look | to put back. Reasons for selling, other business ducements offered and promises made he for a fare on his own account He en- make me leave. Call and see this for yourself. reluctantly signs the apprenticeship bond. counters a gentleman who has been dining Every one U working in this city and they all money and spend it. If you want tbii Having obtained all available children, much too well and shows it This looks have he don't delay, but write quick. takes them to the depot, where an affecting good to the new driver, who dismounts and leave-taking of parents and children is wit- persuades the intoxicated individual to get FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED nessed. The scene now changes to the ex- into His cab, after relieving him of all his terior of a' large iron works and the chil- valuables, but the poor fellow cannot main- dren are led- like prisoners through the tain his equilibrium and at last rolls out Mo M. HELTON care fate the gates ; by and bye they are seen pushing of- the cab and is left to his by WORLD, P.O. Box 450, New York M. P. [ heavy trucks of coal along rails to the heartless cabby.

1 ' -»'„ 1. ii." „,n"w. »i'.L 11; , ii c=s blast furnaces, and as the children falter The next fare is a very portly gentleman, ft, and stagger under the heavy load, they are who appears to enjoy his ride, but unfor- LfodaU'o Handbook of Valuable Information whipped unmercifully by the men for whom tunately is so heavy that fie breaks through they work. The scene is changed to the the floor of the cab, and being unable to ' Moving Picture Operators and for smelting furnaces, where the molten metal attract the driver's attention, is compelled Beginners, etc., etc. spurts and hisses from the mouth, and the to run along as fast as the horse can trot, sense children are observed performing herculean with his legs projecting through the bot- By means of this" book any man of ordinary ' _ tasks with the molten steel ingots and fall tom until he finally succumbs and is also quickly learn to run a machine with best possible red This book is a collection of the best material oStni exhausted. Their taskmasters whip them to left sprawling in the road. the cinematograph journals of the U. S. and Eurcf their feet; the oldest, loses his fare he, loses two a boy and girl, When the driver augmented by the experimental knowledge and er about fifteen years of age, are seen to be no time in lamenting, but patches up the ience of the author and several other veteran openi most unmercifully punished and left to re- bottom and drives on till he picks up a who will present some valuable hrnts never w» many di cover. The boy cheers his companion with couple of ancient ladies, who desire to take published. Here is one that will save you I tell you of a simple device which will positively ideas • of escape. Darkness now settles drive. All goes well until, alas! a wheel a Condensers from Cracking. down and in the midnight watches round comes off, the ladies are thrown out the the furnace the two are seen to steal stealth- wheel replaced and the cab man drives off, PRICE. ONE DOLLAR ily away, down the winding iron stairs, leaving the ladies minus what they had through the foundry grounds, out, far out, paid and not knowing how to get home. C. E. LIN DALL, into the country, down precipitous rocks to The cab driver's next adventure is seri- Bar Harbor, - Mili the seashore. Some time elapses and the ous. Being pretty far gone in drink, he Reference: Bar Harbor Savings Bank scene changes to the woods near their collides with a policeman on his beat, who home and the two fugitives are seen foot- immediately pursues him. At first it seems sore and weary, the boy supporting the girl as if he would escape, but one more acci- Hydrogen and encouraging her on. At last they reach dent occurs ; a junk dealer drives his Osygen and the of the girl, is received into street the smashes home who wagon across the and cab In Cylinders. - • * the arms of her father, who goes in quest into it, delaying the game long enough to Lime Pencils, Condensers, Etc of refreshment, which, alas, comes too late, enable the pursuing policeman to arrive on Prompt Service, Reasonable RsW for as he reaches her, his daughter falls the scene and arrest both cab driver and dead at his feet The boy consoles him junk man, and putting them into the cab, ALBANY CALCIUM LIGHT CO. and they vow vengeance on the slave- drives them off to the station house. Ap- 26 Williasa St., Albany, «• I holders. parently .the. cab js.. hoodooed, for on the THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 411

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Films. Consolidated Film Exchange, 143 E. 23d st. New Edison Mfg. Co, 31 Union sq. New York York. Edison Mfg. Co, 304 Wabash ave., Chicazo 111 MANUFACTURERS. Detroit Film Exchange, Telegraph Bldg, Detroit, The Electric Theater Film Co, Bowling GretaTk American Biograpb Co., 11 E. 14th it, New York. Mich. Enterprise Optical Co, 154 Like st, Ca-cato ra Bros., st, Louis, Edison lit*. Co.. 31 Union bo.., New York. Dominion Film Exchange, 32 Queen st, E, To- Erker 608 Olive St Mo. ronto, Canada. German-American Cine, and Film i Esaanay Film Mfg. Co., Inc., SOI Well* st- Co, 109 £. * Chicago. Duquesne Amusement Supply Co, 616 Fifth ave., st. New York. Kalem Pittsburg, Pa. Greater New York Film Rental Co, 24 Company (Inc.), Union i 131 W. 24th at, New York. ' S. Lubin. 21 S. Sth st.. Philadelphia, Pa. Edison Display Co, 1116 Third ave, Seattle, New York. L. Gaumont & Co., Paris. American Agents, Kleine Wash. Harbach & Co, 809 Filbert st, Philadelphia. P, Optical Co., Chicago and New York. The Electric Theater Film Co, Bowling Green, Ky. Wm. H. Havill, 88 S. State st, Chicago,Hi. Geo. Melies, 204 E. 38th st., New York. Eug. Cline & Co, S9 Dearborn st, Chicago, 111. Keller ft Co, 465 Greenwich st. New Vork Miles Bros., 259-263 Sixth ave. New York. Wm. H. Clune, Los Angeles, Cal. Kleine Optical Co, 52 State st, Chicago. Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco. CaL Globe Film Service, 79 Dearborn st, Chicago, III. C. B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave. New York. Pathe Freres, 42 E. 23d St., New York! Greater New York Film Rental Co, 24 Union bo.. Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, IlL Selig Polyscope Co., 41 Peck court, Chicago, lit New York. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bids, New York, Societa Italiana Craes, Chas. E. Dressier Co. 14S W. E. Greene, 223 Trexnont st, Boston, Mass. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa, E. 23d st, New York. F. J. Howard, 456 Washington st. Boston, Mass. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co, 57 Randolph st, Q T. P., Paris. American Agents, Kleine Optical Imperial Amusement & Moving Picture Co, 44 cago. IlL Co., Chicago and New York. W. 28th st, New York. Miles Bros., 259-263 Sixth ave. New York Urban Eclipse, London. American Agents, Kleine Inter Ocean Film Exchange, 99 Madison st, Chi- Miles Bros., 790 Turk at, San Francisco, CaL Optical Co., Chicago and New York. cago, 111. Wm. Paley, 40 W. 28th st. New York. Viascope Mfg. Co., 112 E. Randolph St.. Chicago, Kinetograph Co, 41 E. 21st et. New York. N. Power. 117 Nassau st, New York. Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau st, New York. Kleine Optical Co., 52 State et, Chicago, IU. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co, 51S First ave, R: Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, 111. burg, Pa. DEALERS. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg, New York. D. W. Robertson, .407 Park Row Bide, New Yt -S. Marcusson, 104 Attorney ct. New York. Selig Polyscope Co, 41 Peck court, Chicago, in Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave., New York. F. Meyers, 123 W. 27th st. New York. Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. 5th st, American Exchange, 630 Halsey st, BTclyn, N. Y. Cks L. Manasee & Co, 88 Madison st, Chicago, IU. nati, Ohio. American Film and Amusement Co., 307 State ft, Rochester, N. Y. Miles Bros, 2S9-263 Sixth ave. New York. L. M. Swaab & Co, 338 Spruce st. Philsdtl-r Miles Bros, 790 Turk st, San Francisco, CaL Wm. H. Swanson ft Co, 79 S. Clark st, tils; Americas Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg., Pitts- burg, Pa. New Era Film Exchange, 95 Washington st, Chi- 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Ctiar cago, 111. ?0th Century Optiscope Co, 2 14th Amusement Supply Co., 85 Dearborn st, Chicago, W. st, K: National Film Renting Bureau, 62 N. Clark st, York. Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph st, Chicago, 111. Chicago, 111. Williams, Browne ft Earle, 918 Chestnut H. H. Buckwaiter, 713 Lincoln ave., Denver, Colo. st, PBas Chicago Film Exchange, Novelty Moving Picture Co, 876 Eddy at, San adelphia. Pa. 120 E. Randolph st, Francisco, Cal. Chicago, 111. Chicago Oklahoma Film Exchange, 221 W. California st, •Song SliciGO. Projecting Co., 225 Dearborn it, Chi- Oklahoma. cago, 111. L. £. Ouimet, 624 Catherine, E, Montreal, Can. BosweU Mfg. Co, 122 Randolph st, Chicago, E : Wm. H. Chine, Los Angeles, Cal. St Wm. Paley, 40 28th st. York. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E, Randolph it, CSS O. T. Crawford Film Exchange, 14th and Locust W. New Peerless Exchange, 112 E. Randolph st, Chicago, cago, IlL sts., St Louis, Mo. Chicago Harry Davis, Pittsburg Calcium Light Co, 515 First ave, Pitts- Song Slide Exchange, 225 Dearborn i& Davis Bldg., 247 Fifth ave., Pitta- Chicago, burg, Pa. burg, Pa. IB. Chicago Transparency Co., 69. Dearborn tt, C Dominion Film D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg, New York. Exchange, 32 Queen at,- E, To- cago. ronto, Canada. Geo. K. Spoor ft Co, 62 N. Clark st, Chicago, IB. IlL Elite Lantern Slide, 207 34th st, New Edison Display Co., 1116 Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth St, Cincin- W. tM Third are., Seattle, Eugene Cline et, Chio^,!. Wash. nati, Ohio. & Co, 59 Dearborn C M. Stebbins, 1028 Main st. Kansas City, Mo. Kleine Optical Co, 52 State st, Chicago, IU Edison Mfg. Co., 304 Wabash ave., Chicago, IB. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin, C. B. Kleine, 664 Sixth ave. New York. The Electric Theater Film Co., Bowling at, Green, Ky. Chicago, IU. Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, IlL Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake st, Chicago, IB. L. M. Swaab, 336-338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg, New York S Erker Bros., 608 Olive st, St Louis, Mo. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. F Fd "»<* Supply Wm. H. Swanson & Co, 79 S. Clark st, Chicago, °J* S" ™ Co, 808 House Bldg., Miles Bros, 259-263 Sixth ave., New York. Pittsburg, Fa. Temple Film Co, Masonic Temple, Chicago, IU. John H. Thurston, Bromfield Miles Bros, 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Olfj German-American Cine, and Film 50 st, Boston, Mass. Co., 109 E. I2th Mcintosh Stereopticon Co, 37 Randolph st, CL3 st. New York. 20th Century Optiscope, 91 Dearborn st, Chicago, U. S. Film Exchan ge. 59 Dearborn cago, IlL Greater New York Film Rental Co- 24 Union to. st. .Chicago, New York. Alfred Weiss, 1S2S First ave., New York. Moore, Bond 6: Co., 104 Franklin st, Chicago, I? Scott ft Van Altena, 59 Pearl st, New York Harbach ft Co., 809 Filbert st, PhUadelphia. Pa. Steffoopfticoi&o. Selig Polyscope Co, 43 Peck court, Chicago, F. J. Howard, 456 Washington st, Boston, Mass. Alfred Simpson. 257 W. 111th st, New York C. L. Hull & Co.. 209 E. 57th Chas. Beseler Co, 251 Centre st, New York. J.' st, Chicago. 111. Len Spencer's Lyceum, 44 W. 28th st, New WM Kwetograoh Co., 41 E. 21st st, Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave., New York. Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin tt, C Kleine Optical Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 52 State st, Chicago, IlL cago, IlL ': Kleine Optical Co., 662 Sixth Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, Chi- ave.. New York. L. M. Swaab, 336-338 Spruce st, Philadelptia, I I Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, cago, 111. HL De Witt Wheeler, 120 W. 31st ft. New Ys Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg,New Erker Bros. Optical Co, 603 OUve st, St Louis, C York. 7 S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Mo. Calcium azadl Electric Lifjh G. Melies, 204 E 38th st, New York. Greater New York Film Rental Co, 24 Union sq., New York. Miles Bros., 259-263 Sixth ave., New York. Albany Calcium Light Co, 26 WiUiam st, "AEr Miles Bros.. 790 Turk st, San Francisco, Cal. Walter L. Isaacs, 81 Nassau st. New York. N. Y. New Era Film Exchange, 95 Washington st, Chi- C B. Kleine, 662 Sixth ave., New York. Brooklyn Calcium Light Co, 112 Front st, Bi cago, 111. H. A. Lande. 410 Market st, Pittsburg, Pa. lyn. N. Y. Oklahoma Film Exchange, 221 W. California st, Laemmele, 196 Lake st, Chicago, IB. Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin Oklahoma. Laemmele, 407 Flatiron Bldg, New York. Minneapolis, Minn. L. E. Ouimet, 624 St Catherine, E. Montreal, Can. S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th st, Philadelphia, Pa. Carrick Electric Mfg. Co, 218 N. Ashland People's Vaudeville Co., 2172 Third ave., New L. Manassee, Tribune Bldg, Chicago, 111. Chicago, 111. York, McAllister, 49 Nassan st. New York. Cincinnati Calcium Light Co., 108 Fourth st, D. W. Robertson, 407 Park Row Bldg.. New York. Mcintosh Stereopticon Co, 37 Randolph et, Chi- cinnati, Ohio. Societa cago, IU. Italiana Cines, Chas. E. Dressier Co. 145 Coleman fi: Newton, 237 E 41st st. New Yj E. 23d st. New York. Joseph Menchen Electrical Co, 3S4 W. 50th st. Erker Bros. Optical Co^ 608 Olive st, St Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth st, Cincin- New York. Mo. nati, Ohio. Moore. Bond & Co, 104 Franklin st, Chicago. IB. Globe Electric Co, 419 W. 42d st, New Yctt C M. Stebbins, 1028 Main st, Kansas City, Mo. Miles Bros;, 259-263 Sixth ave. New York. Wm. H. HaviU, 88 S. State ft. Chicago, BL L. M. Swaab & Co, 338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Miles Bros., 790 Turk st, San Francisco, CaL Indianapolis Calcium Light Co, 116 S. Capital Wm. H. Swanson & Co, 112 Grand ave., Kansas Pioneer Stereopticon Co., 237 E. 41ft ft, New Indianapolis, Ind. City, Mo. York. New England Calcium Light Co., 9 W*7 John H. Thurston, 50 Bromfield st, Boston, Mass. Riley Optical Lantern Co, 23' E. 14th st. New Boston, Mass. Alfred Weiss, 1525 First ave. New York. York. New York Calcium -Light Co, 410 Bleeeker Williams Brown ft Earle, 918 Chestnut st, Phil- Southern Film Exchange, 146 W. Sth st, Cincin- New York. adelphia. Pa. nati, Ohio. New York Calcium Light Co, 309 S. Sltt Stereopticon Film Exchange, 106 Franklin st, Chi- Philadelphia. Pa. RENTERS. cago, 111. Philadelphia Calcium Light Co, 621 Cosas^ American Film and Amusement Co., 307 State st, L. M. Swaab, 336-338 Spruce st, Philadelphia, Pa. st, Philadelphia, Pa. Rochester, N. Y. Pittsburg Calcium Light Co.. SIS First are, American Film Exchange, 605 Wabash Bldg, Moving Picture ^SaehinQO. burg, Fa. Pittsburg, Pa. St Loui3 Calcium Light Co, S16 Elm st Amusement Supply Co, 85 Dearborn st. Chicago, Acme Exchange, 133 Third ave.. New York. Louis, Mo. . ... Atlas Motion Picture Co, 223 Havemeyer st, Albany Calcium Light Co, 26 William st, Albany, Nelson Weeks. 217 William st, New York Brooklyn. N. Y. Windhorst ft Co, 104 N. 12tb ft, St Lon* P. Baeigalupi. 107 Fillimore st. San Francisco, H. H. Buckwaiter, 713 Lincoln ave, Denver, Colo. X,enses« Boston Film Exchange, 564 Washington at, Bos- Calcium and Stereopticon Co, 720 Hennepin ave, Condensors aaca ton, Mass. . Minneapolis, Minn. Kahn ft Co, 194 Broadway. New York Calcium and Stereopticon Co., 720 Hennepin ave, Central. Supply Co, 114 N. Edwards st, Katama- B. Kleine, 622-624 Sixth ave. New Yc* Minneapolis, Minn. zoo, Mich C. Kleine Optical Co, 52 State 6t. Chicago, w- Central Supply Co, 114 N. Edwards st, Kalama- Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph st, zoo, Mich. Chicago, 111. Film Golos'ioft. Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph ft, Chi- Ch. Dressier & Co, 143 E. 23d ft, New York. cago, IU. Eug. Cline ft Co, 59 Dearborn st, Chicago, IlL E. M. Martine, 29 Patterson -St,. Orange, H. J THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 4 J 3

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