The Moving Picture World (July 1907)

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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 275 t\ Published Evkhy Sattjbday. World Photographic Publishing Company, New Tor*. Alfred B. Saunders, Editor. J. P. Chalmers. Associate Editor and Business Manager. JULY 6th. No. 18. J3SCRIPTI0N PRICE : Two dollars a year in advance. age free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, Mexico aii. Porto Rico and the Phillipine Islands. 3REIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Three dollars per year, in ice, postpaid. TO PREVENT loss or delay of mail, all communications should Iressed to P. O. Box 450. New York City. ADVERTISING RATES: Whole Page . . j " . . . *50.00 Half Page . . . . .■ . . 25.00 Quarter Page .••'.' . . . 12.50 Single Column (next reading matter) . . 20.00 One-Eighth Page 6.25 One-Sixteenth Page . . ." . 3.25 Ohe-Thirty-second Page . . . . 2.00 Miscellaneous advertisements will be accepted the following rates: SALE OR EXCHANGE, Private, per line ; minimum, 50c. per issue. Dealers or Manufacturers, 15c per :; minimum, $1.00 per issue. HELP WANTED: 10c. a line; toum, 25c. EMPLOYMENT WANTED: (Operators only) No TO ADVERTISERS: The MOVING PICTURE WORLD goes press Thursday morning of each week. No advertisements can be ated and no changes can be made in standing ads unless the teaches us by 10 A.M., Thursday. ''ose remit by express money order, check, P. O. order or reg- ***& letter. All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. EUROPEAN AGENTS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY Breams Building, Chancery. Lane, London, E. C WHO IS PIRATING FILMS? There seems just now to be a wave of dishonest and underhand practice going on in the film business, and we want to warn our readers against being duped by "dupe" films. The number of copied films which are being offered for sale as originals is increasing, and we want every exhibitor to know how to detect the same and avoid being fleeced by unscrupulous dealers. A "dupe" film is a duplicated film; that is, one manufacturer copies a film made by another, thereby saving the expense of posing the original, and offers it to the public as his own, perhaps under a new title- The method adopted is that a film made in Europe, say, and not having been copy- righted is bought, placed in the printing machine with a negative film and exposed. The result is a "dupe" nega- tive, from which positives are now made and sold as orig- inal films. The "dupe" film is never so good as if made from the original negative, and if you have difficulty in focusing the picture sharply, if the picture is poor in quality, if the half-tone, the delicate shading, the finer shades are missing, look with suspicion on the film, and if at all doubtful, reject it. A "dupe" has lost all the fine photographic atmosphere, is intensified in the blacks and whites, a blotchy effect is produced on the screen, and no matter how good the copy may be, it is impossible to project it on the screen with a maximum of effect. An exhibitor wrote us a short while ago complaining that he could not get good results from some film he had bought and blamed the lens; we knew the lens (made by a reputable firm) was good, and thought he had possibly • changed the glasses. No; then the film was in fault, and sure enough the film was a most flagrant piracy, and it mattered not whose make of lens was used the result would be the same. The question of morals involved in the piracy of films is a nice one, but how to bring it home is another. "The man who for the.sake.of dollars becomes a film pirate has no sense of morals; it is im- possible to appeal to his honor—that's gone. His con- science? Well, he has put that in his pocketbbok. His sense of justice, of doing to others as he would that others should do to him? Oh, that's a fable, all exploded, nothing doing, but if his employee steals a $5 bill he goes for his pound of flesh and demands justice for the thief. Where is the difference? There is none. Both are thieves. The one steals what he does not possess him- self, ideas, brains, originality, and the fruits of an honest industry. The other steals the ill-gotten gains of such an employer and has as much right to the $5 bill as the other has to the pirated film. If justice cannot be meted out to him let all honest