Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1909)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 675 SOUND EFFECTS FOR MOVING PICTURES. There are several things that make for the success of a moving picture. Besides the moving picture itself there is the music, there is the projection end of matters, the environment of the picture, and, above all, the sound effects. These are not the least important. Lyman Hcwe, that prince of moving picture exhibitors, owes much of his success to the excellence of his effects. The effects are marvelously correct in imitativeness. Why, at this moment, we recall the very vivid fidelity to nature which which the barking of a dog was imitated as he scampered across the screen at the Hippodrome last February. But how are these effects produced, and where can they be obtained? Hen Cackle. Combined Horse Wuinney, Cow-Moo and Pig Grunt. Combination Electric Bell, Buzzer and Telepbone and Bicycle Bell. Yerkes & Co., 53 West Twenty-eighth street, New York, N. Y., make them, and make them extremely well. Quite recently we had the opportunity of hearing many of those effects, and some of the barn-yard sounds were so realistic we almost imagined ourselves a hundred miles out of New York City. Yerkes & Co.'s list, which should be in the hands of every exhibitor, gives details and prices of over thirty instruments, etc., for producing these wonderful sound effects. At random we mention from it the rooster crow, the duck quack, the water splash and rain effect, the wind machine, etc.; in fact, their list is very complete. We repeat that every reader of The World should get a copy of this list, and we hope he will for his own sake, for ours, and that of Yerkes & Co. Philadelphia, Pa., is to have another moving picture theater. The building at 913-915 Market street is being converted into a theater, to cost $50,000. Wooster, Ohio. — The Howard rooms, corner of Liberty and Buckeye streets, are being fitted up for a moving picture show. W. H. Eyler is the proprietor. Trenton, N. J. — Michael Crowe is adding some extensive improvements to his theater, which is located at Broad and Dye streets. Cincinnati, Ohio. — The Queen City Amusement Company has purchased of Fred A. Schmidt a lot at 1034 Freeman avenue, where they will erect a moving picture theater. Hutchinson, Kan.— A new ten-cent theater, the "Gem," opened in Hutchinson. Its policy is to run first-class films and vaudeville. Havana, 111.— The Varsity Theater has been sold bv E. F. Dorrell to Messrs. Bert Newberry and Will Taylor, of Marshalltown, la. ..Ft. Wayne, Ind. — A new moving picture theater is to be opened at 121 Washington boulevard. It will be known as the Minuet. Allentown, Pa. — The Lyric Theater Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $40,000. The incorporators are: N. E. Worman, T. E. Ritter, G. H. Hardner, H. W. Kress and others. THE OPERATOR'S DREAM: A Fantasy On the Titles of Films Issued Since April 1, 1909. By W. H. Gunby (of Gunby Bros.). I saw "A Drunkard's Reformation" on "The Road to the Heart" "Trying to Get Arrested"; he had with him "A Rude Hostess," who was taking part in "Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade" for the "Winning Coat." "Lady Helen's Escapade" gave her "Confidence" in "A Sound Sleeper," but she took "A Troublesome Satchel" with her on "The Drive for Life." " 'Tis an 111 Wind that Blows no Good," so "Lucky Jim" and his "Twin Brothers" caught "The Eavesdropper" at "The Suicide Club" by "The Note in the Shoe" and they had "One Busy Hour" which ended in "A French Duel." "Jones and the Lady Book Agent" received "The Jilt,'" and "A Baby's Shoe" brought about the "Resurrection." During "Father's First Half Holiday" "On the Western Frontier" "The Little Shepherd of Tumbling Run" complained that his was an "Unappreciated Genius" and that "The Other Fellow" was "A Woodchopper's Child" "In the Days of Witchcraft." The "Doctored Dinner Pail" given to "The Pony Express" by the "Lunatics in Power" was "An Unsuccessful Substitution"; for "A Somnambulistic Hero" woke up on "The Interrupted Joy Ride." "The Rube and the Bunco Men" found "A Pair of Garters" belonging to "The Bachelor's Wife." "The Indian Trailer" told "A Tale of the West" to "The Chaperone" and "A Mexican's Gratitude" in "Old Heidelberg" was "One Touch of Nature." "Charles Forced to Find a Job" was "Under Suspicion" that he had seen "A Policeman in Action." "The Poet's Vision" was caused by "Too Much Advice." "Before and After" caused him to be "Sentenced to Death." "The Cyclone Sneezer," who was "The Actor's Mother," gave "Free Champagne" which "The World Upset" so "He Couldn't Lose Her" while "The Policeman Sleeps." "A Bachelor's Persistence" "Inviting His Boss to Dinner" "On the Brink of the Precipice," "The Squire and the Noble Lord" were "Forgotten" until they were "Found on the Rocks" by "The Fish Pirates." "The Queen of the Ranch" and "The Yiddisher Boy" started "A School for Lovemaking" after "A Fatal Flirtation," but "Boys Will Be Boys"; that's "Why the Mail Was Late." "The Right to Labor" on "The Inventions of a Lunatic" in the "House of Terror" was one of "Love's Triumphs." "The Martins Leave Home for a Week" was the result of "The Schoolboy's Revenge." "The Kiss of Judas" was "A Contemptible Theft." "Theodore Yearns to Be a Tough," so "Ponto Runs Away with the Milk Cart," but was "Moonstruck." "Paul Has Decided to Marry" "A Pair of White Gloves" and it only shows "There Is No Fool Like an Old Fool." "The Clever Reporter" was found to be only "A Love Sick Barber" "Hunting the Hippopotamus" with "Wilbur Wright's Aeroplane"; he suffered "The Hunter's Grief" on "The Way to Happiness," but "Blessings Sometimes Come in Disguise." Then I woke up! PHOTOGRAPHY AT GREAT DISTANCE. Edward Belin, a young scientist of Lyons, France, has resumed his interesting experiments of "telephotography," or the transmission of photographs at a great distance, with some improved apparatus. Instead of using a private experimental line, he was able to use a real line from Paris to Lyons, placed at his disposition by the administration of the telephones. In eight minutes the photograph of the Mayor of Lyons, Mr. Herriot, was transmitted to the laboratory of the French Society of Photography, in Paris. In the other direction, a view photograph was transmitted in the same conditions from Paris to Lyons, where Edward Belin was at the reception post. We remind the reader that the system of stereotelephotography in question lies on the exploration of the infinitely delicate reliefs of a photograph enrolled on a revolving cylinder, by means of a needle point. In following the cavities and sallies, the needle, by means of an articulated lever, introduces in the telephonic line some variable electric resistances. The photograph is then printed on the receiver by an interrupted series of small electric currents of a trifling intensity, as it would be printed by means of very fine and delicate brushes and paint. A glass tube filled with a liquid color and placed over the receiving plate serves to outline the image. Mr. Belin hopes to transmit in two or three minutes, to the greatest distances, a picture of the carte-de-visite size. — "Phono-Cine Gazette." Wm. H. Swanson & Co. have closed a contract with Geo. Gats, manager of the Grace Hayward Company, to furnish the film service which will be used as a feature during the fifteen weeks' Summer engagement at the Oliver Theater in Lincoln, Neb., commencing May 24, 1909.