We put the world before you by means of the Bioscope and Urban films (Nov 1903)

91 Extract from '' Daily Chronicle," August \Xt/t, 1903. The Micro-Bioscope Series is undeniably interesting and should draw crowds to the Alhambra for some time to come. The show is of real educational value, &c, &c. "The Referee," August 23rd, 1903. Considering the time of year, the enormous business done at the Alhambra last week was truly remarkable. This happy state of affairs was due in great part to the addition to an already very strong programme of a series of Remarkable Pictures, consisting of microscopic studies of insect and animal life and some particularly interesting illustrations of the incidents in the every -day existence of the ever busy bee. By means of these pictures the management has contrived t" " combine insii iiction with amusement " for the grown-up Sandfords and Mertons who have patronised the Alhambra, and to administer, as it were, several sugarcoated science pills. Mr. Douglas Cox promises many further examples of the wondrous work done by the Micro-Bioscope, which certainly opens up possibility s of the revelation of hitherto hidden (to the genera', public) secrets of Nature's mysteries which should continue to draw all classes and ages to the Alhambra. "The Music Hall," August 22nd, 1903. Vet another triumnh for the Bioscope, and the inventor, Mr. Charles Urban, is to be recorded at the Alhambra this week, wdiere a remarkable series of films, entitled, very appropriately, " The Unseen World," are exhibited to an astonished audience. The Unseen World in question is the " land of the microbe. 11 before only revealed to the scientist through the medium of bis microscope. The idea of a combination of the microscope and Bioscope, and its immeu6e possibilitcs, suggested itself to Mr. Urban some time ago. He immediately set to work upon it, with the triumphant result seen on Monday evening. Extracts from " Morning Advertiser," August 24th, 1 903. The new " Science " pictures have caught on in unmistakable fashion, and are drawing all London to Leicester Square. " Free Lance," August 21st, 1903. The Alhambra has scored immensely over its new and sensational set of microscopic pictures of insect life. All last week the house has been crowded nr.htlv ind ihtc 1 shjuli tjiir.k is If.rj'slv dir. t~ the povalty What a sensation it would nave been for ihl Polytechnic in the old days if it could have bad something of the kind ; but perhaps it is as well that it has been p served for a da) w hen i i ist i uction and amusement may be combined in such a pleasant fashion as it is at the Alhambra. These pictures are really marvellous, and should prove sensationally successful. "The Citizen," August 22nd, 1903. Really everybody ought to go and see the latest marvel of science which has been brought to the aid of the Bioscope at the Alhambra. Such enormous strides have been made in the development of this instrument that while a few years ago it was thought wonderful because it showed the picture of a frog jumping, we are now able to see upon a screen the blond circulating in that very frog's foot. The rapt attention of the audience shows that these unique pictures have at once jumped into popularity, so that Mr. Douglas Cox scored another success when he secured this show for the Alhambra. "Manchester Evening Chronicle," August \&th, 1903. From Shepherd's Bush I journeyed to the Alhambra in time to see the first appearance of the Micro-bioscope, the most; recent development of animated photography. To say that It is a wonderful advance is to put it very weakly, and I lo k to this class of living pictures to provide a popular form of scientific education. 'Arriet, for instance will no longer speak of the bee as a " pretty fly with 'ot feet," for the Micro-bioscope reveals the working life of the busy bee. We are shown animals ranging in size from the cheese mite to the boa-constrictor, and the sight of an uglj to. id contentedly consuming a norm made some of us shudder. However the reception of the pictures last evening proved that this " turn " had come to stay.