Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1909)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 557 ONE ROOSEVELT HUNT FAILS. Col. Roosevelt hunted in the jungle of the cedars out on the marshes to the eastward of Sheepshead Bay village one day last week. He hunted before the eyes of a moving picture machine, and it would have been a perfectly bully hunt had it not been that the hind legs of the elephant caved in at the crucial moment and had not a grass fire maliciously set by some of the undesirable citizens of Sheepshead Bay destroyed the jungle utterly. The hunter had no warning, positively none, of either catastrophe. The hind legs of the elephant had been earning their little $3 a day right up to the minute when the art director of the company cried "Shoot!" and then they stepped in a hole and threw the rear elevation of the elephant entirely out of plumb. As to the fire, it was a dastardly, cowardly attempt at reprisal and maybe it can be ignored. One of Wildest Parts of Jungle. It was about 10 o'clock when the automobiles carrying the hunting party and a moving picture camera whisked through Sheepshead Bay and out Voorhees avenue to the cedar swamp on the other side of Clam Creek. The elephant, the lion, the camp equipment, and all the African entourage followed more sloly in wagons and on foot. The rendezvous is one of the wildest parts of the jungle this side of Plum Island. Once at the rendezvous, Col. Roosevelt and the art director WITH KOOSF-VELT IN IM'K A w en — Courtesy of Puck. were all activity. The colonel of to-day, who gave up a good place as leading man in the "A Gambler of the West" company out in Altoona, Pa., to come to Sheepshead Bay, retired behind a clump of bushes and got into his khaki and Rough Rider hat with expedition. He also put on his mustache and fitted in his extra set of flashing teeth. Then the handkerchief he knotted about his neck made a true semblance of the now famous photograph taken before the tent at Montauk Point. While the colonel was adjusting his countenance and his raiment, the African entourage of jungle beasts were busy in the background prinking up for the hunt. The African entourage comprised three saloon porters of Sheepshead Bay, one blacksmith's helper, extremely muscular, of King's Highway; a roustabout from the old racetrack, and George, the well-known gin drinker of Bath Beach. All are dark enough to give the true local color to the jungle. All were stripped to the waist and there were hung about their middles yards of white cloth such as the Kroo boys are accustomed to wearing. The jungle beasts found some difficulty with their toilettes. The lion had to stuff two pillows into his abdominal region in order that the prosperity of Africa might not be belied. Frankie, the large black gorilla, couldn't make his feet track, so he complained bitterly that his toes were not prehensile. As for the three ourang outangs and the mandril, they could not sit down once, having been buttoned up the back. Colonel Coming Into Camp. "Now, boys," quoth the art director after he had brought all of the hunt properties out of the wagon, "remember that the picture can't show you up any too plain; we don't want it to." The first graphic picture was of Col. Roosevelt's hunting entrance into camp. The art director marshaled all of the African entourage back in the brush of the background and armed them. To three he gave guns, instructing them to carry the weapons loosely over their left arms. To one he gave a typewriter case — unmistakably a typewriter case — which he should carry hoisted on his unaccustomed shoulders, 1,000 REELS FOR SALE In A No 1 condition. All subjects up to Feb. 1st, 1909. Write for list and particulars. GREATER PITTSBURG FILM CO. 305-6 Berger Building Pittsburg, Pa. SONG SLIDES " I'm Going to Tell on You " " Tell Me the Old, Old Story " "Nobody Knows Where John Brown Went" The clearest and best colored slides on the market Advertising and ANNOUNCEMENT "The Longest Way 'Round is the Sweetest Way Home " " Somewhere— Sometime— Somehow " "Come Down and Pick Your Husband Out " Since Cohan Wrote that " Mary Was a Grand Old Name " " Hats Off When the Flag Goes By " THEPREWIOCO. Slides Main Office: 934 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Are "Business Bringers" Our catalog tells Why, Send for it today. ATLANTIC ELECTRIC SIGN COMPANY, Atlanlic City, N. J. Song Slide Company of America 613 OQDEN BUILDING, CHICAGO Manufacturing to Grades of Song Slides We claim the Chicago Slides at $3.50 per set are the best made for the money, and Imperial Slides at $5.00 a set are the equal of any slides made. Give us a trial order. WHO WANTS TO EXCHANGE American Films for Italian Films? CATALOGUES EXCHANGED UNIONE CINEMATOGRAPHIC^ ITALIANA Corso Buenos Aires No. 26, GENOVA, ITALY Knickerbocker Film Exchange 1402 BROADWAY If you are dissatisfied with paying high prices, try our summer service. 1 Reel change daily $3.00 per week. 2 Reels «« " $6.00 «« » 3 Reels " " $9.00 « " Value for your money.