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THOMAS BEDDING
Some men are born Editors ; some achieve Editorship ; others have Editorships thrust upon them. 1 come under the first heading. I was, I verily believe, predestined to edit "The Implet:" and I write the plain sober truth when I say that I never entered an Editorial chair with greater pleasure or greater persuasion of success than when on January 1 st, 1912,1 took my seat in the piece of furniture at No. 1 02 West 1 0 1 st Street, New York, from which I date this first Editorial.
Someone has suggested that I should print a brief sketch of my moving picture career. Well : I wrote a history of animated photography in The British Journal Photographic Almanac of I 898 — fourteen years ago. Somebody has also said that this treatise might have been written yesterday ; it reads so freshly and up-to-date. In England I helped to make and develop many a moving picture. In 1 908, circumstances and a desire to get closer to the practical end of picture making in the United States, took me into the Cameraphone Company's studio and factory at Eleventh Avenue, New York City.
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From January 1909 till April 1911 my pen was busy in the pages of "The Moving Picture World." And then the inevitable happened, as the inevitable must, does and will. A personal friendship with Mr. Carl Laemmle led to my realization of an ambition to take an active part in the business of moving picture making and " The Implet " thus becomes the weekly expression of my ideas on the subject.
This is quite enough about myself. If you want to know more, go and look up my record in the library. But being a person of sense you won't trouble your head about any such thing: you'll judge me by my work in this paper. And that's all I want, all that I have a right to expect.
" The Implet," then, while necessarily guarding the interests of The Imp Films Company will not be narrowed in scope, like most house organs. It will address all exhibitors, manufacturers and the general public throughout the world.
It will be bright, newsy, informative, progressive, snappy, unconventional — it will be different from anything and everything else. It will be unique and inimitable.
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Reader, whoever you are and wherever you are, I desire and invite your co-operation " The Implet " the most attractive moving picture publication in existence.
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January 1912
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