The Moving picture world (January 1920-February 1920)

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910 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD February 7, 1920 o£ the bulb is shown. In this connection, it may be mentioned that bulbblowing is one of the most precarious of industrial occupations. It requires great skill, which is acquired only through long practice. The picture shows all the processes from the drawing of the tungsten wire to the careful packing of the finished electric bulb. Prisma's "Magic Oay." One of Prizma's best is being released this week in a carefully detailed illustration of the making of pottery. The Rookwood Potteries, at Cincinnati, Ohio, have been chosen as a fitting place from which to demonstrate the modern workings of an ancient industry. The picture, directed and photographed by Captain George E. Stone, is a delightful presentation of its kind, and the home of the Rookwod pottery, with its beautiful flower-strewn entrance, is first noted, after which we visit the interior of the shops and are permitted to watch at close range an article of pottery shape itself under the hand of one of the most skilled workers. When the vase leaves his hand, it is turned over to the decorative artist for further beautifying, glazing and firing. Samples of the shop's most beautiful masterpies are shown, and, lastly, an allegory posed gracefully by a member of the Rookwood firm. The Moving Picture Art as Siam Practised It WHAT a thrill the natives of Siam some few hundreds of years ago, must have undergone when the moving picture art in embryo flashed its wonders upon them. And we are even more astonished than they to find that the nineteenth-century invention was several hundred years behind in the propagation of an idea. The evidence stands for itself and was presented to this country by the king of Siam in 1875, but has remained hidden away in boxes at the National Museum ever since. Finally it soaked through somebody's cranium that these little figures, conceived by some ancient Griffith or DeMille, might make good copy for a movie scribe. So here we have them just as they looked in the days when they were mounted on rods and manipulated by a careful operator behind a screen of white cloth. Just how thrilling the dramas outlined by them were, we do not know; or just how Chaplinian the comedy. At any rate we can feel well assured that the very novelty of the thing proved immensely entertaining to the ancients of that period in Siam. A perusal of these figures reveals grace and ingeniousness of outline: and one can even sense a shade of the romantic amid the tragedy, however grotesque it may appear, that permeates the central composite picture. Give a thought to these moving figures of the dusky ages. Some Things Worth Knowing That one of the most important features of the current issue of the Pathe News is a demonstration of the merits of a new invention in aeroplanes. This plane rises vertically, without the usual "take-off," by means of rapidly revolving horizontal propellers. In the same issue Bobby McLean, champion ice skater, gives a final exhibition before setting out for Norway to race Oscar Mathieson. • That the Newton Catholic Club of West Newton, Mass., is one of several non-profit making social organizations that have contracted for Realart Pictures recently. The indorsement has also been signed by R. H. Clark, manager of the Town Hall, Weston, a community center supported by one of the wealthy men of the town. The pictures which won this distinction for Realart are "Erstwhile Susan" and "Anne of Green Gables." That Don Carlos Ellis, head of the school book division of the Educational Department of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, has been in Washington for the past week in consultation with Dr. Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, and other educational authorities, in regard to the production of a series of pedagogical films to be exhibited at the February session of the National Educational Association at Cleveland, Ohio. * * • That one of the Judge Brown series of moving pictures, entitled "Thief or Angel," was used in illustrating a sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Leslie Willis Sprague in the Judson Memorial Church, at Washington Square, New York City, on Sunday night. The sermon was on "Good Motives and Evil Deeds." Dr. Sprague, former pastor of a Brooklyn church, is now head of the industrial and religious sections of the Community Motion Picture Bureau, New York City. * * * That Universal Current Events has some unusual scenes of the overflowing of the Rhine at Coblenz, Germany, also views of Niagara Falls in mid-winter, and scenes in Yellowstone Park showshowing herds of deer seeking the haunts of men in search of food. * * * That Max Fleischer's clown made an embarrassing mistake in his latest "Out of the Inkwell" number when he placed a tack in the artist's chair, and a lady guest sat down on it. Needless to say the clown made a quick dive for the inkwell to cover his vexation. * * «" That one of the subjects of a recent Goldwyn-Bray Pictograph discloses the shocking criminality of a feminine hunting wasp. The cameraman has the inside track on all the details of her crime. * 41 * That twenty-six public schools in Kansas City are running moving pictures six afternoons and nights in the week with such great success from an educational standpoint, that the school board has heartily indorsed the movement which has been carried on under the direction of C. H. Mills, community center director. More schools in this city are planning to run pictures immediately, following the realization that they can be run on a paying basis. "The Bluebird" was shown to 16,000 persons. It was run at twenty-one schools to a box office total of $1,431, making a profit of $800. Half of the surplus reverted to the community centers to be used in improving schools and communities. The other half went to the school board to be used in buying educational films. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Movie Fans in Siam Laughed and Cried at Moving Pictures Hundred of Years Before American Audiences Did These ancient figures, mounted on rods, and projected by an "operator" on the "screen," a white cloth hung between the light and the audience proves it. Left to rlgrht above are: A "tense situation" between hero and heroine; Hunlman, the monlcey god, with his warriors in a big battle set; the Siamese Charlie Chaplin; and the Sun God In a "sensational production."