Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

Record Details:

Title:
Motography
Date:
Apr-Dec 1911
Publisher:
Electricity Magazine Corp.
Volume:
Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)
Leaf #:
000353
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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October, 1911. MOTOGRAPHY 165 entrance to the garage. There is a gate house on Indiana avenue, which is in charge of a watchman and no one is permitted to enter or leave without his observation. Mr. Lubin, the president of the concern, is about to begin some enlargements of the plant in order to facilitate the getting out of the two extra releases per week. He intends increasing the floor space of the studio 160 by 60 feet and installing another artificial light stage for the use of the directors during the cloudy weather and at night. At the time the present Lubin plant was built the company was producing two reels of film a week. Today the output is four reels, released on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The company's letterhead bears the locations of branch offices at Chicago, London, Berlin, Vienna, Manila, Moscow, Barcelona, Rio Janeiro, Milan and Sidney, and its export business alone is tremendous. While it has established its reputation notably on its strong dramas and comedies, the Lubin ManufacturingCompany was one of the foremost concerns to enter the realm of science in the interest of the medical fraternity. The head of the concern, Mr. Lubin, has long been interested in matters of this nature and has expended considerable time and money in furthering its interest. The Lubin Company's latest work along these lines Part of the War.lrobe Room. was a twelve hundred foot film illustration of a lecture by the famous nerve specialist, Prof. T. H. Weisenburg, given to the members of the Alumni Association of the department of medicine of the Medico-Chirurgical College in the clinical amphithetre, Eighteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, March 21, 1911, and the auditorium Part of the Lubin Dry Room.