Motography (Apr-Dec 1911)

172 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. VI, No. 4. current motors being made by the Victor Electric Company, and carrying with them the guarantee of both the Enterprise Optical Manufacturing Company and the manufacturers of the motors themselves. 6.— R. E. Single Stereopticon. Fig. 7. — Enterprise Double Dissolving Stereopticon. In illustration No. 5 is shown the Stereo-Motiograph equipment No. 1021-A, which is so well known "as to require little mention. This outfit will, generally speaking, be just the same as the 1911 model with the exception of the mechanism which will be used on the 1912 model. In illustration No. 6 is shown a complete R. E. single stereopticon mounted on a collapsible stand. The lamp house and arc lamp used in this equipment is the same as is used on the Motiograph. In illustration No. 7 is shown a view of the Enterprise double dissolving stereopticon, now in use in the larger theaters in America. This outfit is furnished with a rheostat capable of caring for both arcs, and producing 25 amperes of current at each arc on 110 volt line. In the next two illustrations (Figs. 8 and 9) are shown two gas making outfits, which are manufactured 5. — Stereo-Motiograph No. 1021-A. Fig. S. — Enterprise Calcium Gas Making Outfit. Fig. 9. — Togo Calcium Gas Machine. by the company. The first is the Enterprise calcium gas making outfit, known for many years as Model "B," which has been on the market for about eight years, and it is too well known to need a further description. The Togo calcium outfit is, of course, as the illustration shows, a very much cheaper machine, but combines the safety features of the larger and more expensive outfit, and is equipped with the same patented saturator, so successfully used for the past eight years with the larger outfit, and will probably produce just about as good a light at the same cost. In addition to the large manufacturing business which i- conducted by the Enterprise Optical Manufacturing Company it is a large jobber of accessories and general supplies for the motion picture theater and the traveling exhibitor and specializes on spotlights, stereopticons, motion picture and stereopticon lenses, condensing lenses, carbons, tickets, ticket holders, acetylene gas outfits, reels, compensarcs, current saving devices, motion generator sets, electric light making plants, announcement slides, advertising slides (both in the motion slide and stationary slide), and in fact, is in a position to take care of every need of the photoplay theater, traveling exhibitor or the educational institution, using either motion picture or stereopticon outfits. Government to Use Pictures Uncle Sam himself is going into the business, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. With the authority of President Taft, a contract has been entered into by the government officials and a Chicago firm for the purpose of reproducing in moving pictures all of the various activities of the nation. The pictures will be shown in hundreds of moving picture houses. Marines at work on battleships, gunners firing at the hulk of an old battleship, cavalry drills, mine and rescue work, plant and animal industry, road building, and every single activity of the government will be shown on the films. The problem of educating the public to the work being clone by its own government was carefully considered by the president and the members of his cabinet before the contract was entered into. Each cabinet officer was then authorized to make his own arrangement with the film concern, having the right to arrange for such pictures as he wished to have taken and reject those he does not care for. The department of agriculture, for instance, will be able to show, in entertaining as well as instructive style, the effects of pure food and impure food; the secretary of war will be able to show the advantages of army life, and the secretary of the navy the advantages of life on the bounding waves, while the interior department will be showing how forest fires are fought and entombed miners are rescued. The government will be killing two birds with one stone, improving the tone of the moving pictures and eliminating those that have a bad effect, while educating the public to the work being done by its government. The time is not far distant, apparently, when the film fan instead of jubilating over the way the tramp captured the Indians, will be remarking learnedly : "I never knew why the sailors wore their trousers wide at the bottom, but I saw by the films last night that i" is to enable them to roll up the ends when they want to swab the deck." And his girl will remark: ''Oh, and they are showing how the government teaches cooking. I learned how to bake stuffed tomatoes at the picture show last night."