The film finds its tongue (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
00038
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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20 THE FILM FINDS ITS TONGUE artistic one of the four. He shared with Harry a sense of drama : he was a born showman. In the summer of 1903 Harry was in business in Youngstown, Ohio; he had a bicycle shop though he was also in the shoe repairing business there since the fall of 1896 when less than 14. The bicycle craze was at its height; and since 1900 he had been profiting by it. Albert was with him. They sold bicycles "on time" — so that they would get the repair work. Meanwhile they continued to operate the shoe repairing place with hired men. They even ran a grocery and soda fountain. The well known Rae Samuels worked behind the counter. Sam had tended store in the shop at various times. Sometimes he went off on work of his own. Once for two years and six months he was a railroad fireman on the Erie Railroad. During the summer of 1903 he was employed at an outdoor park at Cedar Point, near Sandusky, Ohio. There he had had his first contact with the amusement picture world when he saw the Kinetoscope and its projected motion picture. The machine fascinated him just as twentytwo years later the talking picture machine was