Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912)

144 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE The Woman's City Club of Chicago is now trying to show how "Citizenship may be made easy by Moving Pictures." Twenty-five organizations in the South Side will unite with the Woman's City Club in giving exhibits showing the City Beautiful by means of Motion Pictures. Motion Picture Story Magazine scrap books are now quite the fashion. Many of our readers are making them. The new school board at Washington, Pa., has announced its determination to install Motion Pictures in the public schools to be used in the study of history, geography, chemistry and botany. Out in LaSalle, 111., the aldermen have passed an ordinance limiting the number of Moving Picture theaters to three until the population shall have reached 15,000. The three will no doubt receive this news with favor. Others think that it is carrying Puritanic laws pretty far when they limit the amusements of the people. The Pathe Freres have taken some important Motion Pictures of microscopic life magnified 600 to 1,000 times, at the rate of several thousand a minute. Among the most interesting films are those of the blood in circulation, with its normal and abnormal contents, the tail of a tadpole, showing a number of little blood vessels — each 1.2500 inch in diameter — thru which the red corpuscles pass with the circulation, while the colorless cells or leucocytes change about with an independent motion of their own. In some films these leucocytes, now known to be the blood's scavengers, are seen in the act of seizing and absorbing foreign matter, such as diseased cells or microbes. Of three hundred clippings examined this month, which were sent in from as many newspapers from every part of the United States and Canada, about one hundred were entitled "Moving Pictures as an Educational Factor," or wTords meaning the same thing. About twenty-five contained the usual rubber stamp heading, "Blames the Movies for Boy's Downfall," which is comparatively a small number. The old rubber stamp used to read "Blames Nickel Novels for Boy's Downfall." Several readers have inquired why the trademark of the manufacturer often appears in most all of the pictures. You have probably observed, in the Indian films, the little bell label under a mantelpiece, or on a tree, and have wondered why it was put there. The reason is that there are many counterfeiters who make it a business to hire films, re-photograph them, put on new titles, from which they make many negatives, and then sell them as their own original product. This is called "duping films." This illicit business is not so common now as formerly, because it is quite impossible to eliminate the little trademarks without spoiling the whole film. A Photoshow Vampire By LILLIAN MAY A man there was, who wanted to go "My dear, that hat becomes you so, (Even as you and I) Come out, and show it off!" And take his wife to a Photoshow "That's just the trouble you ought to know,. On Easter eve, but she wouldn't go, What is the use for me to go He couldn't tell why she acted so And wear a new hat to a Photoshow, (Even as you and I). Where I have to take it off?" She had a new hat with plumage gay, . Said he, "Is that what troubles you so?" The finest in the land. (Beginning to understand) She always adored the Photoplay, "I'll find a seat at the end of a row, Was ready to go either night or day, You can see every bit of the Photoshow, Never before would stay away, . And still wear your Easter hat, you know, So he couldn't understand. I'm glad that I understand!" Oh, the ways of women, where'er you go, Are hard to understand! When duty and pleasure conflict, you know, You never can tell which way they'll go, But all love to see, and to be, a show, This much we understand!