Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 181 (READY IN AUGUST) THE THEATRE OF SCIENCE A Volume Dealing with the Evolution, Growth and Trend of the Motion Picture Industry By ROBERT GRAU 500 pages of text, 400 illustrations. 'Bound De Luxe CONTENTS OF ONE CHAPTER The forerunners of Motion Pictures.— The experiments of Muybridge, Paul, Messonier, Marey, Acres, Anchutz, The Lumieres, and many others.— Advent of the Kinetoscope in 1893; why Edison did not take out foreign patents for his primitive invention which foreign inventors utilized.— The Cinematograph in London. Trewey, the necromancer, secures the English rights. — How B. F. Keith, acting on information, sailed for Paris, while a Proctor agent, on a wrong trip, went to Berlin. Keith misses W. B. Hurd, owner of the American rights of. the Cinematograph, who had already sailed for New York, where J. Austin Fynes met him at the wharf.— Advent of the Latham Eidoloscope, the Edison Vitascope and Lumieres' Cinematograph in Philadelphia and New York.— The American Biograph succeeds the Cinematograph at Keith's Union Square Theatre, a new Kinetoscope appears.— A Plethora of the "graphs and scopes" from $350 a week at the outset, the cost of the service dwindles to $50.— Coining of the phrase "The Chaser." — Forcing delinquent vaudevillians to "follow the pictures." — How the "White Rats' Strike" opened the eyes of showmen to the value of Motion Pictures as an entertainment.—Advent of Archie L. Shepard.— The "Nicolet" movement.— Edgar Strakosch wins prize of $100 for suggesting the caption "Photoplay."— Birth of the Motion Picture Patents Company. — Who is entitled to the greater credit for the survival of the independent film manufacturers? — What has become of the real fathers of film progress?— Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, of the House of Prayer, Newark, N, J., after 20 years of litigation and long after he has passed on, is recognized as a genius, while his widow, now 86 years old, emerges from a condition of near poverty to one of great affluence.— Advent of the Famous Players on the screen.— Wholesale adaptation of past stage productions to the screen due to hasten the day when the vital era of Motion Picture production will be inaugurated.— Theatrical methods in filmdom.— Will the bankrupted barons of Long Acre Square bring to a heaven-born art the disastrous conditions which they created in theaterdom?— The coining into filmdom of the gentlemen who were wont to decry the camera man's productivity, a serious matter.— Will the established film manufacturers offer reprisal by embracing the neglected opportunity of theatrical producers and themselves prove that the ninety per cent of mankind now enjoying photoplays can be enticed to patronize the spoken play?— Stranger things will happen. PRICE $3.00 THE VOLUME Address ROBERT GRAU, 53 Elm Ave., Mt. Vernon, N, Y. When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE.