Pictures and the Picturegoer (October 1915 - March 1916)

PIC I'UKliS AND THE PICTURKGOER 62 Ocr. 16, 1915 Turner Films 4( Pi & ictures made for YOU." Next wetk we will tel you 01 tiie pictures we are making tor you this wiater. THE YOUNG PICTUREGOER DEAR (JIIILS AND BOYS— Like many people who reside in the suburb*. I have a big garden. Last Sunday, whilst examining a trash, I came across the largest and finest web I have ever seen, lis owner, 6? course, was a large spide.r, and as ] looked more intently 1. discovered his majesty making for a small fly, which, entangled in the web so deftly woven by the enemy. was struggling to get free. Suddenly a larger fly, who must have known what wasgpingon, Hew straight at the spider, and appeared to attack him. At any rale the spider crawled clear of his smaller victim, and "went" for the champion. Then n wonderful thing happened. The, weaker ll.\ . which had been struggling all the time, succeeded in breaking the "ropes" made by the ler, and goi awa\ scot-free, to besoon lowed by the knight-errant, the larger fly, after he had apparently punished the spider. Then another wonderful thing happened. It came on to rain, ami as I watched I saw the big, strong web torn and broken by heavy raindrops. Mister spider, in a frantic effort to save his life, spun his way across to a friendly waterspout. II > missed his and, Hailing middle of a rain-water Pari ned in its aw i'ul de| But what on earth ha anion or garden tragedy t'» So with moving pictures? you as!;. I'answer," JTothin And yet in a way it has a very great connection, Here we have a living and typical example of 90 per cent, of the human stories that form the foundation of our film dramas. The small fly. the "heroine." was as likely as not the larger fly's sweetheart. She was lured to destruction by the "villain." whose wicked schemes were frustrated by the "hero," and wh villainy was further punished by the just wrath of heaven. A moving picture indeed, but a garden drama instead of a tilm one ! And what a wonderful tim it would have made. Photographed by a cinemacamera and magnified hundreds of times, as it would be on t be screen : e\ cry movement and all the meaning of this 1 dramatic story would have been easily and clearly conveyed to the human These were my thoughts ; at the time it was enacted, and now 1 find that elsewhere in this issue is an interesting article on the film photography of such creatures as inseets, Hies, spiders, and all sorts of other weird and creepy things. The article goes to prove thai such amazingly interesting tilms are possible that many indeed have already been made and I for one shall look forward to seeing them screened. " Dolly" writes to ask me why it is that she never, or hardly ever, sees an . lish film y, but 1 ind if ' cinema in her neighbourhood w] show British tile 1 to trai British films being, and will be, made numbers now than they ha\ . what is more, our producers are turning out better pictn * * . * Here i f how a nine year don Griffith, * made hay while lone." or rather while he pla a Trans-Atlantic drama. " Standnt th< c. irner and shout out the names of t rs." said the producer to the boy. Then he turned to give instructioi camera man. A few minutes Cordon presented the astonished producer with a handful of pern asked for more papers. Th obtained-. but this time the producevhad to laughingly remind the bush von it he was only actins the tilm. and not getting' his living 1 real newsbov. ► * * * Another winter is creeping upon us. and boys and girls will begin to enjoy their evenings in the sitting-room with a cheerful lire for company. On some evenings, of course, they will ei themselves at the "pictures." but wi nidus at home will be many and wel( ome. and will produce, as 1 know from. I