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The
Motion Picture News
MOVING PICTURE NEWS EXHIBITORS' TIMES
Established 1908 Established 1913
Volume VIII October 11, 1913 Number IS
NICHOLAS POWER
( Cameragrapher )
TN my photographic days, quite the most, or at any a long, long time to come. Of course, he has got to die rate one of the most original, men in that business like the rest of us. But he is such a treasure to the was a witty Irishman. He lived to a fine old age ; motion picture field that we must keep him as long as died the possessor of a nice estate and plenty of money, we can. Nicholas Power is witty, clever and warmHe used to make photographic cameras, big and lit hearted. One of the happiest experiences in my last tie, which were a joy to handle. Have you ever seen lustrum was to sit and listen to his mordantly humora microscopist fondle over a Zeiss high-power, high-grade microscope? I have. And I have done a great deal of the fondling. I was once the possessor of a beautiful Zeiss microscope. 1 seldom used it in actual microscopic work. But it was a joy to me to turn the milled head and feel the exquisitely wrought out movements of the machine. I write "wrought out" advisedly. The finish of these scientific luxuries is imparted by hand — oh, but if I tried to put my feelings on paper on handling delicate optical instruments I should fail, even though I exhausted Webster in the process.
Well, my Irish friend whose name was "Pat" (never mind the surname) made cameras as delicate in their movements as beautiful microscopes. They were built of Spanish duce. They "deliver the goods." mahogany years and years old. It had been pickled. One of the most interesting exhibits at the New It had been ripened. And oh, the beautiful polish he York Motion Picture Exposition in July was the put on those instruments. They were good to look at Nicholas Power exhibit and one of the most interand to use. Those were the happy days when it was esting figures there was Nicholas Power himself. He a distinction to be a photographer. Now it ain't. The did not see me, but I saw him and it pleased me to kodak is omnipresent. "Everybody's using it, using it, see the evident interest Mr. Power took in explaining using it." My camera friend began life in a back not merely the practical uses of his much-loved camshop, slept under the counter at nights, but died in a eragraph, but to expound the optical principles inbed that a wealthy society beauty might envy. volved in projection. To this day I can remember the
I don't want my friend Nicholas Power to die for (Continued on page 16)
NICHOLAS POWER
ous story of his wanderings in the East. He had taken a vacation and probably needed it as much as he deserved it. We all need vacations. Not everyone of us deserve them. I deserve vacations, but I don't need them for I hate holidays.
I theorize that Nicholas Power in the projection machine field is the analogue of my cameramaking friend. I believe that Nicholas Power (more power to him and all power to him) began business life in a back shop and slept under the counter. Slept with parts of his machine, as my camera friend did, and as that absolutely unmanageable and erratic Thomas Edison is said to do now. These men are the despair of their wives, daughters and families, BUT they get there. They pro