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

of^cience i'^t proved to be one of the most remarkable in the history of the world. As the film business has been an epoch-maker, so Siegmund Lubin and his remarkable success are marked indelibily upon the history of the "Theatre of To-morrow," and whenever the historians of the centuries to come tell of the story of the cinematograph and its glories, such history without the name of Lubin as a "master mind" will be like the story of the Battle of Waterloo without its Wellington, or of Gettysburg without its Meade. On June 14, 1914, the Lubin plant was damaged by fire ; loss about a million dollars. Work on new building began at once. Many master minds of the motion-picture manufacturers have for some time back been concentrated upon the educational features of this industry and the possibility for research it offers. Siegmund Lubin, of Philadelphia, is paying much attention to this department. He has given us pictures of the crab, oyster, sardine, milk, turtle, turpentine, orange, grapefruit, peanut and sponge industry, the making of hay, the evolution of the grain from the cornfield to the staff of life, the ostrich farm, the sport of catching jewfish, the making of pottery, scenes over the sea celebration which will become a matter of history and aviation warfare practice with the aeroplane and biplanes in full action at the garrison. Again, the inoculation of tuberculosis and suchlike vital diseases from our population. Recently the celebrated Dr. Weisenberg gave an important lecture at the local clinic of Scranton. The lecture was freely illustrated by pictures made by Mr. Lubin, giving vivid scenes taken in important sanitariums devoted to insanity and nervous diseases. The same firm has now traveling three big organiza