The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
000162
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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of^cience 71 gage famed and qualified playwrights for the writing of original photoplays. This last statement is, indeed, important. Augustus Thomas will grasp, as few producers can, the full range of picture-play productions. That he will ultimately discard the one-time stage successes and approach the vital task of the new era, which will follow the exhaustion of stage material, is an announcement of great significance. Much has been written, more has been said, about educational films. Like a cherry, the subject has been nibbled at, a little bit here, and a little bit there, but nothing of a concrete, practical nature was really attempted, in the United States at least, until the Colonial Motion Picture Corporation took hold of the problem in a business-like manner. This corporation numbers in its ranks such well known men as : James D. Law, President American Artography Company, President Colonial Motion Picture Corporation. Hudson Maxim, Inventor of "Maxim.ite," and other U. S. Government explosives. Consulting Engineer and Experimental Expert for E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Company, who acts as Technical Expert for Colonial r/Ioticn Picture Corporation. Sir Gilbert Parker, Member of the British Parliament, NoveHst, Director of the Colonial Foreign Department. Duff C. Law, Expert Cinematographer, Inventor and Technical Director of the Colonial Motion Picture Corporation. John D. Dunlop, of Dunlop Brothers, Silk Manufacturers, New York.