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40 The Billboard raa " DECEMBER 23, 1911. MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY NOTICE THE Edison patent (Re-issued No. 12,037) relating to motion picture cameras, was re-issued on December 5,1911, as No. 13,329, to the undersigned. The patent contains the following claims: 1. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combi- nation a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; feeding devices engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate' of speed and with an intermittent motion; and a shuttei exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 2. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combi- nation a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; a contin- uously-rotating driving-shaft; feeding devices operated by said shaft engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion; and a continuously-rotaticg shutter operated by said shaft for exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 3. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combi- nation a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; a contin- uously-rotating driving-shaft; feeding devices operated by said shaft engaging such intermediate section of the : film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion; a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest; and a reel revolved by said shaft with variable speed for winding the film thereon after exposure, substantially as set forth. ; 4. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combi- nation a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized tape-film supported on opposite sides of, and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; feeding devices engaging such intermediate section of the film and moving the same across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion, said feeding devices comprising means proportioned to cause the devices to so advance the film that its periods of rest shall exceed its periods of motion; and a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. 5. An apparatus for taking photographs suitable for the exhibition of objects in motion, having in combi- nation a camera having a single stationary lens; a single sensitized perforated tape-film supported on opposite sides of. and longitudinally movable with respect to, the lens, and having an intermediate section crossing the lens; feeding devices provided with teeth engaging the perforations of such intermediate section of the film and moving it across the lens of the camera at a high rate of speed and with an intermittent motion; and a shutter exposing successive portions of the film during the periods of rest, substantially as set forth. Motion Picture Patents Company. Film Synopses (Continued from page 29.) IMP. A PA1B OP GLOVES fComedy; released Dec. 23: length. 600 feet). —Copyrighted 1911 by Independent MoTtns Pictures Company o£ America. — A pair of ladles* glove was found in 31m Bobertson's pocket by his pretty little wife. She Imme- diately Jumps, to the conclusion tbait Jim has been playing double, and rushes home to her parents for consolation. Then the trouble starts for poor Jim. It Is ultimately shown that the offending pair of gloves were placed In hubby's pocket Dy mistake, but not before there has been much unhapplness of the com- edy kind. The complications and crossplay give the "Imp" comedians an opportunity for some smart acting. On the same reel is: NIAGARA FALLS CELEBRATION (Descrip- tive; length, 40© feet).—Copyrighted 1911 by Independent 'Moving Pictures Company of Amer- ica.—The presence of Canadian soldiers on .United States soil at a recent Niagara celebra- tion ds one of the many features preceding a de- • scent of the falls in a barrel by the intrepid teach. The course of the barrel through the rapids and whirlpool is shown. Incidentally an airship Joins In the celebration and at the con- clusion of Leach's feat ft flock of carrier pig- eons is let loose. There are also views of the Maid of the Mist under the falls and of the bridge with a train at rest npon It. THE POBTBAIT (Drama: release Dec 28: length, 1,008 feet).—Copyright 1911 by Imp Films Company.—Little Vera, the model. Tell In love with the handsome young artist, Regi- nald Spencer. Success came Reginald's way, and an affection springs up between him and a handsome society girl, whose portrait he has a commission to paint* Little Vera Is not long In discovering she has a rival the original of the portrait Spencer is lavishing so much work on. There is to be a private view or the por- trait in the artist's studio. The society girl and her friends arrive, only to. discover, when Spencer draws the curtain aside, the portrait has been hacked to pieces. The society people desert him and the artist is left in his misery. Poor little Vera confesses she is the guilty one, and avows her love as the reason. Spencer re pulses the girl, and in her despair she attempts suicide, but Spencer prevents her mad act, and realizing she loves him and he loves her, a hap- py ending is assured. OX THE STROKE OP THREE (Drama; re- lease Dec. 25: length, 1,000 feet).—Copyrighted 1911 by the Imps Film Company.—Joe Perkins bad led a foolish and vicious life In his earlier days. Parmer White had given him a Job and a chance and be had made good, and also fell In love with Agnes, old White's daughter, and Agnes fell In love with him. Farmer White was in town on business when Joe heard that there was a ran on the local bank. All the farmer's money was there—$12,000. Joe had been a forger. Should he go back to bis old game, forge a check, get the money and save Farmer White and his daughter? He took the risk, wrote the check and got the money from the bank on the stroke of three. In Xew York Farmer White read of the crash. Going home, as he thought, a ruined man, he was confronted by Jee, who confessed all- was forgiven and united to the girl he loved. Joe had taken a risk which saved three people from misery and Injured nobody. POWERS. CUPID'S BIG SIS- TER (Comedy; released Dec. 19; length. — ft.). —-Little toothers are the standard nuisances of the spooning busi- ness, but the iutenest of the little brother In the courting of bis Mi/irviir sweet sister is gener- marmM* ally a mercenary one. The artist knew of the sweet tooth of the young- ster and was getting along famously until a wealthy young Bomoo came along in an auto. But you can never tell about a small. boy's ca- price: here it gets him into all kinds of trouble and the mere fact that his sister acknowledges relationship is all that saves his hide from a merry tattoo. But he's a wise youngster and plays his game knowingly, so in the end they vote him the best little Cnpld that ever was. On the same reel is: TOURING BRUSSELS (Travel; length, — ft). —A delightful scenic trip In the old world. HEARTS OP ITALY (Drama; released Dec. 23; length, — feet).—The parents of Bo- slta Maroda, fearful of the Camorra and stiletto, wish her to marry the villain. Lulgl Cardone. But the girl rebelled, and leaving the old home, came to America. Here all Is well until Lulgl, too, arrives, and In 2few York's crowded settle- ment they meet, he a conniving villain, she the mother of a lnsty babe. Slowly the strands of the interrupted vendetta connect once more, but Guido, Boslta's husband, is equal to the problem. The cruel Lulgl Is enmeshed In his own- snare and the band of Providence comes to the rescue of the little family. THANHOUSER. ' SHE (Drama: re- lease Dec. 26; two reels; length, — ft.). — Part L — Amenar- tas. the Pharaoh's daughter. persuades Kallikrates, the strong and beautiful, to renoan-e bis vows as a Priest of Isls and See with her from Egypt. After traveling "twice twelve moons,"-they land, with their Infant son, on the coast of Africa. In her cave In the hollow mountain, "She," the white witch of Africa, whe has learned the secret of eternal youth.; learns by her magic of the approach of the Egyptian. "She" determines that he is the (Continued on page 48.) BUFFALO JONES' GREATEST TRIUMPH ROPING WILD ANIMALS IN AMERICA (INDEPENDENT) The Greatest Achievement of the Age. The Host Marvelous of all Pictures.. Ho Fake. They make the red blood run cold to see them. ICo one will pass them by, even at $1.00 admission. BUFFALO BULL FIGHT. 1,000 feet. Release date January 4, 1912. A pamphlet lecture with each reel or on applica- tion. Startling posterB, but not overdrawn. Just the thing for good talkers to lecture on. Write or wire at once. Address Slit Street and Broadway, C. J. (BUFFALO) JONES, (Phone, 4100 'Madison Square), New York City. 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