Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1920)

February, 1920 MOVING PICTURE AGE 37 What the Plymouth C ongregational Church (.Reo. Newell Dioight Hillis) Thinks of the New Premier Pathescope Flickerless, "Safety Standard" Motion Picture Projector Machine and Films inspected by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., and labeled : * 'Enclosing Booth Not Required." No licensed operator, nor insurance restrictions. Orange Street Jirooblpn. £. I?.. Sept 86" 19 19. Th9 PatSie scope Co., Of America, Inc. 35 West 42" St., Manhattan. Gentlemen; It ia now 3 months since we Installed your Pathescope Moving Picture machine in our Simday School and the results have been most gratifying. We have been successful in keeping our School open all Summer with • a good attendance and now in addition to our regular Sunday session we are using the machine to give a "Show" in the middle of the week, inviting the children of the Oommvmity to Join us and teaching religion and patriotism through the mediiim of the ear and eye. These meetings are highly successful, thanks to your machine and we hope before long all the Sianday Sohools of the Country will have a Pathescope as part of their regular equipment. We heartily recommend your machine to all interested in Educational and Religious work. Plymouth Sunday School, THE NEW PREMIER PATHESCOPE Greater illumination guaranteed than obtainable with any other Portable Projector and Surpassed only by the arc. THE PATHESCOPE CO. OF AMERICA, Inc. Suite 1808, Aeolian Hall NEW YORK Agencies and Service Stations in Principal Cities. Demand for Project-A-Lite Beyond Supply Causes Expansion of Company In a recent letter to Moving Picture Age W. R. Rutledge, manufacturer of Project-A-Lite, writes as follows: You may be interested in knowing something of the inception and growth of Project-A-Lite. For several years past the writer has been actively engaged in the construction and operation of central station properties in the Northwest, and upon the entry of the United States into the world war sold out his interests there and offered himself for foreign service. Being rejected on account of physical disqualifications, he turned his attention to the development of electrical apparatus for motion picture theatrical work. Almost the first thing to attract attention was the effort being made to replace carbon arcs with mazda illumination, and in this field was found an outlet for his energy. At first a period was spent in experiments looking toward the development of suitable apparatus for regulating line current to meet the requirements of the standard motion picture high efhciency lamp. After that attention was given to the development of an adapter that would hold the mazda lamp in position in the present day carbon arc lamp house without necessitating any serious changes or destroying the lamphouse now used. The success of both these efforts are well attested by Project-ALite products, which are the result thus far achieved. A very small beginning was made and the pages of your publication were resorted to as a means of informing the world of these helps toward mazda illumination on the screen. During the last six months such a demand has arisen for this apparatus that, although doing our utmost, we are unable to keep pace with it. In order to properly finance the manufacture and sales of our product Rutledge & Company have incorporated under the laws of the state of Illinois and are now seeking quarters offering larger manufacturing facilities. A strong demand has arisen in European fields and it is the purpose of the new company to engage in the export trade. May I add that in response to our advertisements in your journal we had received inquiries from London, Paris and Rome, as well as from several international agencies, who have applied to us for commissions as distributors. The advantage to the exhibitor of being able to retain the use of his own lamphouse with its present condensing and projecting lenses makes a strong appeal because of the fact that nothing need be thrown away. The absence of excessive heat results in longer life to all the projecting apparatus, thus effecting an economy that saves him many dollars in operation. We shall soon announce our new automatic regulator through your columns. Your Teacher Is the Operator when you motivate your instructions with the DeVry Portable Projector. It requires no booth, operates from your room -light fixtures, takes standard film. Tell us your problem, and let us tell you about projectors and films for educators. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT American Type Founders Company 300 Communipaw Ave. JERSEY CITY