The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

614 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Kalem F: (TS2B NEW UHE) A GREAT BIG SINGING NOVELTY AT NO EXTRA CHARGE Length 470 Feet "School days" was mode to go with the great Edwards' song now popular the length and breadth of the land. It tells a story of boyhood and girlhood substantially as it goes in the song, and the action is so spontaneous and natural that it is certain to make a strong appeal to everyone whose memory of school days is not altogether lost. "School days, schooldays, Dear old golden rule days, Readin'and 'ritin'and rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick. You were my Queen in Calico, I was your bashful barefoot beau, And you wrote on my slate— 'I love you, Joe,' When we were a couple of kids.'' Do you get our weekly picture post- cards? If not send us your address. KALEM FILMS HAVE CARTOON TITLES Recent Kalem Successes Lost Mine .... 455 ft. His Affinity .... 340 ft. Dramatic Rehearsal - -,105 " Troubles of a Tramp Woman Cruel Woman - 315 •« The Rival Motorists 255 " 555 " 131 W. 24th STREET (Telephone 4619 Madison) NEW YORK CITY Selling Agent, Kleine Optical Co., 82 State St., Chicago London Agents: Urban Trading Co., <*2 Rupert Street L .«w»BWBrarasaieasEi2assza ''»S@.«S*W«»*^«?MMMi<««v at the time. As the detective had no corroborating witnesses, Mr. Walsh was riot arrested. - The Myers brothers were then held for the Court of Special Sessions by Magistrate Geistnar, who claimed that there was sufficient evidence in the case to warrant- it going to a higher court Two weeks ago the same moving picture show waj closed by the police. The police of the Fort Hamilton Station, who closed the moving picture show in the Golden Horn Casino, at. Third avenue and Ninety-sixth street a week ago Sunday, repeated their action again yesterday. Detectives White, Cunningham and Dowling went to the Casino to see if the law was being complied with. They thought it was not, and decided to make some arrests. William Reed, aged thirty-five, ofr 411 Ninety- ninth street, the alleged operator of the show, and Max Son- tag, one of the proprietors of the Casino, were arrested. As they were being taken away and led out of the place, the police claim that George W. Hoch, the other proprietor, rushed out and tried to prevent the arrest. He got in the officers' way and laid hand on them, they claim. Hoch was arrested on the charge of interfering with an officer in the performance of his duty. * * * . Half of the five-cent theaters in Chicago will be put out of business by the Building Department when their licenses ex- pire unless the owners of the buildings where they are operated make changes to comply with the building ordinances. Commissioner Downey announced his intention of enforcing the ordinance against them. "Many of the theaters are being operated in buildings whici are little short of fire-traps," he said. Twenty-five licenses for such places were refused. * * * Chicago rapidly is becoming the center of the moving picture business in America. Within the last two years more than 1 dozen dealers in films established their offices here, and will the increase in popularity of the vaudeville and five-cent thea- ters there is promise of still greater activity among the dealers and manufacturers of moving picture films. Of the dozen or more film dealers in Chicago two make their own pictures. The others contract with French manufacturers for their films and then sublet them to vaudeville managers it this country. Those who make their own films have establish- ments that resemble the property rooms of a theater except that they are a good deal more elaborate.' As each set .of pictures requires a different' set of costumes and scenery, the film maker must stock himself with "props" of every conceivable variety. . The two big moving picture firms that have their h< quarters in Chicago, have their operators out every day winV a staff of men and women—usually down and out actors arrfj actresses—to act as models. It is the business of the models ' to fall out of burning buildings, rescue, each other from the! park lagoons, rob banks, and trains, stick fly paper on the pari .benches and do other foolish and interesting stunts that art! designed to amuse the patrons, of the theaters where the moving pictures are used. In Paris, where the moving picture industry has reached its highest development, there are regular companies of moving! picture posers, who do nothing else but act in front of the: film making machines. In Chicago, the dealers prefer to change their models frequently, so as to prevent the same faces fronj appearing too often in the pictures. Practically all of those who pose for the moving pictures are actors. William Selig, who is said to have the largest fib making plant in this country, says that it is difficult to find models who are able to pose 1 properly for the picture machine! This is because the pictures must be made to appear as thought they were taken from real life, and the trouble with most of the models is that they stop right in the middle of a scene when it is necessary for thehi to keep the action at its highest pitch. ■ If it were possible to use the same set of models all the time • this difficulty could be avoided, but the requirements of the j; business, arcording to those who are engaged in it, make it I necessary to introduce new faces and figures into the pictu res l constantly. The moving picture operators have many novel experience! Not long ago, one of the camera men from Selig*s office gath- ered 'together a staff of bloodthirsty desperadoes and went out to Oak Park for the purpose of robbing a bank. Mr. Selig pr*" I yiously had .asked the president of the bank if he might ro!> I it, and as the reply was favorable, the camera man, accompanies I by his masked and.heavily armed bandits, went out to do the job. "'.'.■■■ . When they got there nearly the whole of Oak Park was out