Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1909)

558 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD INDEPENDENT F I L M S If you are tired of trust stuff and trust ways, write to us and we will help you. Mutual Motion Picture Supply Co. 934 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. F I L M S A SQUARE DEAL We make the best lenses in (TT^vrTl the world for projecting motion | .^ jjj^ J pictures and lantern slides. Can I ■ c uc j you spend a little money more \" / wisely and profitable than by ^*r ordering a set of lenses which will IMPROVE YOUR PICTURES? NEW PRICES M. P. Projection Senses any size with our improved jacket with spiral adjustment $15.00 No. 1 Stereopticon Lenses 15 00 No. 2 Stereopticon I„enses 20.00 All dealers sell them on approval. WRITE FOR OUR NEW CIRCULAR When ordering state the size of your screen and the length of the picture wanted. Give the distance from the lens to the screen. Remit the price of the lens or furnish references. CUNDLACH-MANHATTAN OPTICAL COMPANY 808 Clinton Ave., So. Rochester, N. Y. FILM SERVICE OF MERIT ^SUPPLIED BY== 0. T. CRAWFORD FILM EXCHANGE CO. Licensed by the Motion Picture Patents Company, and furnishing an exclusive licensed service, using only the films made by the following Licensed manufacturers: American Mutoscope & Blograph Co. Edison Manufacturing Co. Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. Kalem Company. Qeorge Kleine. Lubln Manufacturing Co. Pathe Freres. Sellg Polyscope Co. Vltagraph Company of America. A regular weekly supply of 18 reels of splendid new subjects is now available. THREE OFFICES ST. LOUIS, MO. 1401-05 Locust St. LOUISVILLE, KY. 421 4th Avenue. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 314 Carondelet Street with the lettering, "T. R., Mombasa," held to the front. The Other two carried packages of dunnage on their shoulders and wicked-looking assegais in their right hands. With Col. Roosevelt in the fore, his teeth in the fore even of him— and the African entourage grinning and glistening, ily behind, the procession through the jungle of the cedars in the direction of the kinetograph was started. Then the Elephant Catches Fire. Just then came a wild cry from the mechanic behind the kinetograph : "I ley, the elephant's on fire." The procession halted and the art director hurried to the side of the mutely patient pachyderm standing off by the edge of the marsh. He lifted up the skin on the port side of the elephant and peered within. "Say, do you think 1 pay you $3 a day to be the hind legs and then to have you go and smoke inside the elephant? ( iet out, or quit smoking. Don't you know this thing'll burn?" "Well, you can't expect a fellow to stay bent over all day," came the complaint from the hind legs, "and not have a little smoke, kin you?" The interrupted procession into the jungle began again. Col. Roosevelt, with the sun in his face, glared at the picture machine in the most lifelike manner. His African entourage merely looked and played the part. On Scent of the Quarry. After the bivouac the next incident that was to thrill thousands of prospective audiences was arranged. The heart of the African jungle with Col. Roosevelt on the scent of the quarry! The elephant, fore and aft, was stationed in the offing where it could casually lumber into the path of the hunter. Col. Roosevelt started to pad softly through the jungle of the cedars, eyes and teeth alert for game. The elephant had the first cue. The mammoth of the forest stalked with undulating motion out into the delighted ken of the colonel. "Now shoot!" came the command of the art director, and then came the shocking tragedy to the elephant's hind legs which made the poor beast crumple up before the smoke of the gun's explosion could be registered on the film. After that in swift succession of disaster came the fire. It was with difficulty that the lion, the monkeys, and the African entourage rescued themselves and their toilets from the fast spreading blaze. CHRONOPHONE SUBJECTS. In our review of the Chronophone talking machine two weeks ago we stated that the Gaumont Company had in preparation a list of several hundreds of American comedies, dramas, dances, etc. A copy of a descriptive book which deals with these subjects is before us. It is the first general list of Chronophone subjects that has been issued. It covers a very large field. We note that the company employ only first class artists in the preparation of the talking or singing records. This is evidenced by the fact that Harry Lauder, Mi<s Victoria Monks, Signor Corradetti and others have been giving their services. In the list of subjects there are operas such as "Faust," "Carmen" and "The Mikado," then there are "Cavalleria Rusticana," as well as "The Barber of Seville." The list runs to over two hundred subjects, and we are impressed by its remarkable variety. Here are the cakewalk, whistling solos, recitations, dances, ballads, dramatic sketches, and, in fact, every kind of subject likely to amuse :i popular audience, with whom these talking and singing subjects are in favor. Then again a wise choice has been exercised in the selection of the subjects. They are bright, lively and catchy, and. above all things, clean. We think that this excellent list should go far towards popularizing the Chronophone, and we recommend all those of our readers interested in a very ingenious invention to write to the Gaumont Chronophone Company, of 124 East Twenty-fifth street, New York City. for a copy of the list. It should do much towards popularizing the Chronophone in the moving picture theaters of the (1 States. We have repeatedly said in these pages that the future of moving picture photography is bound up with the phonograph as an adjunct, and the progress which Gaumonts are making in their work more than confirms us in our prediction. • mention The Movirfg Picture World when corresponding with advertisers. New Castle, Pa.— F. R. Hallm, general manager of the Airdome Amusement Company, of Washington, Pa., will i an up-to-date airdome here.