The Moving Picture World (1907)

686 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. ■j.:^SiiSV:i%3?. Clune Film Exchange 727 §. Main St., Lo@.&ng©i©g, Cai. Everything in the Moving Picture line Film The Very Latest Prom all Over tbe World Best of Serrlce Quick Deliver? Song Slides and all supplies for the lantern All Makes of Moving Picture Machines SSIEZ EBESHAM) SCHHEIDEB'S "MIROR VITAE" Tbe HacMno with 100 Features FUckerless, Stczij, Sale cod Handy 7INBST IN THE WOE5.ILIS. Manufacturer of specialties b Machinery, Films and Slides, Cameras, Perforators, Printers, Leases. Film Rental and all Sap- piles. >e» %■> «P ip «J» ■WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 109 East 12th Street, - - New YofH City FSSbtss a^co mi are tbe only reliable, they're guaranteed SOLE ACEHT FOR Ediso sc©p©s 335-338 Spruce St. p Philadelphia, Pa. ad Are You S&85o£3oc2 witfc Vows* Service We are one of the pioneers in the film rental bnsiness and our customers stay with as. Increased facilities place ns in a position to give equal satisfaction to a few more. Write, stating your wants. cago 129 East Sandolph St. Dept. F. CHICAGO, ILL. Local and Long Distance Telephone Exclusive Selling Agents for Contra! 4401 The ¥lasa®so HW^^saWMffiWWT^^ Mr. Frank Spreter, owner and manager of "The Bright Spot." a five-cent moving picture theater of Cohoes, N. Y., has had a. new front put in his theater, and is doing a big business, even his matinees increasing day by day. He ran the "Passion Play" for a week and by request put it on the next three days of the following week, playing to even better business than before. He is a K. of C. man, single, of course, and that accounts for the number of young ladies that frequent his establishment. * *. *. The Wondeerland Theater, Troy, N. Y ; , Mr, A. A. Hall, man- ager, is doing a good business here. It.is the elite moving pic- ture theater of Troy, catering to the best class of people. " He kindly donated his theater last Thursday afternoon to the orphan children of this city, and after they enjoyed the special pictures and songs, he gave them ice cream and cake. How the little ones enjoyed the treat you can well understand. Mr. S. Milliken, well known in the show' business, was in- itiated in the Troy Lodge, T.-M. A.'s, last Sunday, and from all reports he got his. He is manager of the Film Rental office there. Troy can at least boast of having a moving picture film ex- change in the Imperial Moving Picture Co. It has already gained the name "Troy's busy office," and from reports they say that Bill is a hustler for the trade. * * * THE MOIR-BURNS FIGHT. The efficiency of the kinematograph as a means of accurate ' record has again been very forcibly 1 illustrated this week. On Monday evening Tommy Burns, the. American, beat Gun- ner Moir at the National Sporting Club, in a fight for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. One of the most eagerly anticipated boxing matches ever held in this country, the Burns-Moir fight attracted a big house at the N. S. C. A vastly greater public, however, than could have been contained in the N. S. C, both here and in America, was keenly interested in the occasion. As far as America is concerned this large body has had to content, itself with the accounts which appeared in the newspapers, but in England a vivid picture of the fight through- out has already been issued by the Urban Company and shown at the Alhambra and other halls, and copies will also shortly be at the disposal of American showmen. The Urban Company has done some of its best work at the N. S. C, but probably none better than the 1,000 feet record they are offering of this event. The difficulties of photographing under such conditions as prevail at the scene of the fight are considerable, but by means of an elaborate and extensive in- stallation of eight electric lamps of 56,000 candle power, the com- pany have secured a record which, in our view, is not only equal to the best work done with natural light, but actually superior to a great deal of the latter, ( owing to the marked absence of shadows. Mr. Urban, with his usual foresight, had made all necessary arrangements to ensure a complete and successful .series being obtained. Two cameras were kept in operation during the whole of the ten rounds. This duplicating process was adopted as a precaution against possible loss of any part of the fight should circumstances arise which might hinder photographic work. From the preliminary handshake to the knock-out blow all the incidents of the fight are recorded. An account of the film .would be practically a repetition of the details of the fight appearing in the press. It is obvious fairly soon that Burns is getting the better of the exchanges, and apart from a fine and clearly shown rally in the fourth round, Moir was out-boxed, to be finally knocked out in the tenth round of what should have been a twenty-round contest. For completeness this series of kinematograph pictures con- stitutes a record, and it is obvious that it is of great value in consequence. Should any question'arise in.this or any other country as to the exact manner the fight was fought, the actions can as often as necessary be reproduced upon the lantern screen, thus affording an indisputable conclusion to any arguments.— The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly. ' * * * In discharging William Hines, proprietor of the American moving picture theater in Superior avenue, N. E., and Hoyt Burnett, manager of the Lyric theater, charged in police court Friday with exhibiting'pictures inciting-to crime, Judge Fiedler threw out of court a case that was full of possibilities. Prosecutor Geier argued in recommending the discharge that a decision of guilt would make liable to prosecutions under the statutes all newspapers printing stories of crime; the stage where melodramatic plots are acted; magazines, museums, every insti- tution where works of art or pictures or stories of criminal acts are shown, net in the interest of science. For the statute under which the arrests were made includ«s