Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

8 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS and ask him to print the editorial so that it may be read by 750,000 members of tne Order throughout the Universe. "Assuring you the hearty support of every Loyal Moose, in your efforts to keep clean a business in which this Grand Order has so many active members, I beg to remain. "Yours fraternally, "I. W. CUNNINGHAM, "National Director." The third excerpt is from a lady in Newark, who is specially interested in the Public Welfare Committee, whose name for obvious reasons I cannot give, but she assures me that she will do her utmost to keep Newark clear and clean from that film. "Dear Mr. Saunders — "I have just read with great interest the Ex-Cathedra regarding the film 'The Wages of Sin.' What can I do to keep it out of this City? I am in touch with the Public Welfare Committee, especially those interested and looking into the moving picture industry and will see them at once, but thought probably you could give me some advice. Your articles are so good and one can see what you expect and wish for in this motion picture field." I have been taken to task for my attitude on this question, and have been asked, if I cannot see the morality of the film, if I cannot see the beautifulness of the film. These I utterly fail to see. It is simply making heroes of men who should retire to private life and obscurity, and I have no patience with any manufacturer who dares to flaunt such films in the face of public opinion as it stands to-day, and to say the least, it is bad taste, it is bad policy, and it will react in a very critical manner upon the industry. Since setting the above up in type I learn that the New York Board of Censorship have passed this film, and their excuse is that they have no power to suppress any subject whatsoever. Shame on the Censor Board. Why -does it not resign, and allow men and women who have the courage of their convictions to take the reins and compel manufacturers to destroy any such subjects, that offend the public taste in any small degree. They acknowledge that they are only an advisory board, and I sincerely hope the day is not far distant when the Exhibitors of New York City and State will have the courage to take up and force through the Board of Aldermen and the State' Legislature at Albany the Ohio Censor Bill, the most sensible bill ever placed before the industry. PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION PALACE BUILT WHILE YOU WATCH — MOVING PICTURE CAMERA RECORDS DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION OF WORLD'S LARGEST WOODEN BUILDING Details in the construction of Machinery Hall at the Panama-Pacific Exposition are being recorded by a moving picture machine set to take a picture automatically every five minutes. The camera is placed upon the roof of the Service Building, one of the completed exposition structures, and has an inclusive view of the new structure. Under the magic influence of the "movies" a full-grown building will be conjured up, beginning with the bare ground and finishing in eighty minutes with a structure completed to the topmost pinnacle. Like the Temple of Solomon, it will be built without the sound of a hammer. The records will show ninety-six pictures for each working day, or a total of 6,912 for the three months required for completing the building. When the pictures are reproduced the reel will be run at the rate of 864 pictures per minute, or more than a week's progress in that time. This is a new departure from the usual custom of taking photographs of buildings at different stages of construction, and aside from the interest of the picture, it will furnish the exposition officials with a valuable record of the building operations, as they expect to study the effectiveness of various methods of construction through the slower reviews of the films. Machinery Hall will be the largest wooden building in the world; more than 7,500,000 feet of lumber will be used in its construction, and more than four carloads of nails; 1,200 tons of steel and iron will be used. The dimensions of the building are 967 feet long, 367 feet wide, extreme height 135 feet, with three great naves running throughout its length. MOVING PICTURE ACTRESS ASSISTS RESCUE WORK AT CALIFORNIA DISASTER Miss Virginia Brissac, who played the leads in the recent Universal Hawaiian pictures, rendered valuable service to the sufferers in the Long Beach pavilion disaster on May 24th. The Los Angeles Examiner gives a very glowing testimony to her work in caring for the wounded and says : The tender hand and soft voice of a pretty woman came to soothe the suffering of those who had been injured in the Long Beach disaster yesterday. This woman, Miss Virginia Brissac, a young actress who was recently entered in a beauty contest at Long Beach, joined hands with J. H. Bixby, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and J. H. Duree, president of the Pike Association, in leading the rescue work. Never during the long and racking hours which followed the catastrophe, when from every side came the anguished cries of pain, hysteria and grief, did this young woman falter in the mission which she had nerved herself to accomplish. Despite the fact that the young woman had little or no knowledge of first aid or surgery, she replaced this deficiency by a cool-headed insight. Once the young woman was seen straining at a huge beam which lay heavily across the body of an unconscious child. The feminine hands, tugging with a determination which gave her added strength, moved the obstruction, and soon she was carrying the little one to a cool, soft spot upon the sand. All through the chiaroscuro of running figures, waving arms and contradictory orders this young woman was seen now and again stepping resolutely from this sufferer to that. Here she would bend down and raise some injured one to a comfortable position, there sustain a drooping figure until stretchers arrived. From time to time seeking the advice of some of the physicians who were constantly arriving at the scene of the horror, the volunteer rescuer would set out on some new humanitarian errand, regardless of danger. Late last night it was reported that the young woman had become seriously ill as a result of the nervous shock which came as a reaction after her tension of the day. ROOSEVELT AND DR. OSLER TO VIEW "DREAD OF DOOM" Interested by wide comment on the intimate study of a man infected with tubercular germs as shown in the Itala "big film," "The Dread of Doom," the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis proposes to aid them in its exploitation. Philip P. Jacobs, assistant secretary of the society, and Harry R. Raver will probably arrange to exhibit the film before members of the executive board of the association. Expected to be present among others are the honorary vice-presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Sir William Osier. Of specific interest to the society will be the peculiar manner in which the physician in "The Dread of Doom" is inoculated with the germs of the Great White Plague, i. e., arterially, through the bite of a monkey. Cases of infection from this source are of such extreme rarity that many physicians contest the possibility of inoculation in this way.