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EXHIBITORS HERALD and MOVING PICTURE
WORLD
October 6, 1928
Managers Schools
THEATRE EMPLOYEES— Modern Theatre Management training will aid you to secure better positions. Learn Theatre Administration, Advertising and Technics the Institute Way. Send for Catalog C. Address Moving Picture Theatre Managers Institute, Elmira, N. Y.
Miscellaneous
BEAUTIFUL registered Bull Pups, $15. Bulldogs. Address 501 Rockwood, Dallas, Texas.
Projector Repairing
EEST GRADE repair work. Prices right. Free relief heads. Prompt service. Address Guercio & Barthel, 1018 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111.
Our Twentieth Century Repair Shop, with skilled expert mechanics, specialized tools, precision machinery, assure the very best REPAIR JOBS. Relief Equipment furnished FREE. Prompt service. Reasonable prices. Progressive Exhibitors over entire country send their work to "THE OLD RELIABLE." Monarch Theatre Supply Co., Memphis, Tenn. Established 20 years.
SKILLED MECHANICS, specialized tools, and • shop equipped for but one purpose can offer yon nothing but the best in repair work. That is what I have, and I can offer you the best in the overhanlinf of your motion picture machinery equipment One of the oldest repair men in the territory, and serving some of the largest houses. Relief equipment furnished free. For results bring your work to Joseph Spratler, 12-14 E. Ninth St., Chicago. 111.
Projector repairing by experts. Work guaranteed. Largest shop in West, rebuilt projectors and equipment. Low prices. Address Preddey, 188 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal.
Equipment Wanted
BEST PRICES paid for projection machines, all types. Address Guercio & Barthel, 1018 Wabash Ave.. Chicago, 111.
WANT SEVERAL MERCURY RECTIFIERS, good, bad or incomplete, cheap. Address Preddey, 188 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal.
State Rights for Sale
LOOK! READ! ACT! — ROAD
Showmen, State rights for sale. The true life of "The Younger Brothers," featuring Cole, Bob and Jim Younger and the James Boys, in five reels, and Younger's Historical Events, in one reel. Thia picture as a popular-priced road show is no experiment. It has been tried and true, has played against all kinds of competition under all conditions. Has always gotten the money. With each State or sale we furnish free one new complete Lobby Display, consisting of new Prints of Film, three new Wax Figures, standing, life size, of Cole, Bob and Jim Younger, true to life, dressed in cowboy style, big boots, etc.; 500 OneSheets, 100 Slides, 10 Photo Lobby Boards, extra 100 small Photos, 6 Banners, lettered in flashy oil colors, enough to fit any theatre front. Everything ready to go. Hurry. It will pay you to buy the king of all road shows. Address E. L. Humphrey, Miami, Okla.
Cameras for Rent
AKELEY; BELL-HOWELL (professional). Rent anywhere. Address Wood, 124 E. Market, Indianapolis.
Waitress' Courtesy Brings Film Chance
(Special to the Herald-World)
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2. — Yes, courtesy counts. Winfield Sheehan of Fox sent Mary Duncan to a Los Angeles food "shoppe" to learn the tribulations of food juggling, for her role as a waitress in Murnau's "Our Daily Bread." The waitress was so pretty, and willing, that Miss Duncan took her under her wing. That's why Dolly Hanna is "in the pictures."
LETTERS From Readers
A forum at which the exhibitor is invited to express his opinion on matters of current interest. Brevity adds forcefulness to any statement. Unsigned letters will not be printed.
Thank You!
Wayland, N. Y. — To the Editor: Received first copy of Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World yesterday. Enjoyed "New Pictures." "Letters From Readers," and "The Theatre" a great deal.— G. M. Gleichman, Wayland, N. Y.
Enlarging Department
BOSTON, MASS.— To the Editor: We are contemplating a more extensive use of motion pictures in the teaching of business and are endeavoring to secure information relative to industrial films that have been produced. If the Association, or any of its members, have produced industrial films that would be useful for educational purposes, we should be glad to be so informed. — H. H. Thurlby, Assistant Professor of Industrial Managemen:, Harvard University, Boston, Mass.
S M P E Closes Session Notable for Subjects And Large Attendance
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Movietone and the Bell Telephone Laboratories who have given us this entertainment, because, while the entertainment cannot be said to be advancing either to these corporations financially, it is adding to the interest of the meeting of one of the important, if not the most important, organizations we have.
Work of Vast Benefit
The work of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers is a vast benefit to every interest in any way connected with the motion picture industry. It would be idle to dispute or deny that assertion, and I believe that within the past two or three years everyone has come tf> realize the value of the Society and its work.
One evidence of an awakening interest in the scientific end of things by the motion picture projectionists of the country is found in the fact that the last few meetings have been
attended by projectionists who have traveled long distances to be present. At this meeting we have Louis Townsend of Rochester, Frank Dudiak of Fairmont, W. Va., Arthur Gray of Boston, George Edwards of New York City, George W. Pettingill of St. Petersburg, Fla., G. H. Humphries, Utica, N. Y., R. Niehling, New York City, Samuel Price, New York City, Irving Green, New York City, H. S. Morton, Detroit, Mich., Drl Gordon, Akron, Ohio, all working motion picture projectionists.
When it is remembered that the entire industry is dependent on the projectionist for the manner in which its entire finished product is displayed before the public, it is not difficult to understand the importance of such an awakening as this on the part of even a relatively few projectionists. If men will travel from West Virginia, Florida and from Minneapolis, Minn, (as two did to attend the last fall meeting) to attend these meetings, it is very safe to assume that a large number of other projectionists are awakening to the need for technical knowledge.
L. C. Porter Elected President
When this meeting has closed the officers just elected will take charge of affairs. President Cook is retiring. His place will be filled by L. C. Porter, General Electric Company. H. P. Gage, Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., was elected to the office of vice president. The new secretary is R. S. Burnat, Edison Lamp Works Research Laboratories, Harrison, N. J. William Hubbard, of the Cooper-Hewitt Light Company is treasurer.
The two newly elected governors are W. C. Kunzman, National Carbon Co., Cleveland, and H. T. Cowling, Eastman Teaching Films, Inc., Rochester, N. Y.
The consensus is that the record made by the outgoing officers has been most excellent. The treasury has some thousands of dollars to its credit ; the membership has increased to, I believe, a little more than three hundred, and no one who knows anything at all about such matters would question the statement that the Society has gained very, very greatly in prestige during the past three or four years. It now is honored and respected both in the United States and in fact in all English speaking American countries and enjoyes a high standing in the countries across the water.
President Cook has proven himself a very able executive and L. C. Porter and W. C. Hubbard, secretary and treasurer, have very much more than "filled" their office. In fact, it is a matter for regret that Mr. Porter is retiring from that office, even though it be to assume a higher one. Than Mr Hubbard a better treasurer I think could not possibly be found.
As an indication of the importance sound in
synchronization with motion has assumed, in the eyes of the Society, I find in the program the following papers:
"Public Reaction to the Sound Movies," "The Quality of Speech and Music," "The Public and Sound Pictures," "General Principles of Sound Recording," "Sound Reproduction in Theatres," "Methods of Synchronizing," "The Three Electrode Vacuum Tube and its Application to Sound Recording," "Sound Synchronization and Projection," "The Sound Motion Picture Situation in Hollywood," "Characteristics of Photo Electric Cells," "Light Valve Recording," "The Kerr Cell Method of Recording Sound," "A Study of Ground Noise in the Reprodution of Sound by Photographic Methods," "Acoustic Linings for Sound Proof Motion Picture Stages and Sets;"
"Recent Advances in Wax Recording," "Acoustics of Sound Recording Rooms," "Acoustics of Auditoriums," "Recent Developments in Dynamic Loudspeakers," "The Optics of Sound Recording Systems," "The Entertainment Value of the Sound Movie," "Measuring the Quality of Sound Reproduction," "Re-Vocalized Films," "An Electrical Synchronizing and Re-Synchronizing System for Sound Motion Picture Apparatus," "Some Problems in the Projection of Sound Movies," "Sound Film Processing," "Some Thoughts about Motion Pictures with Sound," "Early History of the Sound Movies, 1'he Physical Characteristics of Music and Speech."
Mcllheran Voted Head
Of Dallas Film Board
(Special to the Herald-World)
DALLAS, Oct. 2.— R. C. Mcllheran was chosen president of the Film Board of Trade in the annual election last week. Leroy Bickel was elected vice president ; P. K. Johnston, secretary; Harry T. Peebles, treasurer; and Don C. Douglas, executive secretary. Directors elected were Mcllheran, Leslie Wilkes, Johnston, Bickel and T. B. Wildman.
J. Horace Miller Dead
(Special to the Herald-World)
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.— J. Horace Miller, one of the first men in Philadelphia to demonstrate a motion picture machine, died at his home in Moore.