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

0 f ^ c i e n c e 287 structed for film purposes Irish, German, Japanese, and other villages, with logical surroundings, for permanent use. He has eight large companies constantly at work, with a weekly payroll of $17,000. These pictures are released under the Domino, Broncho, and Kay-Bee brands. At Edendale the New York Motion Picture Company has not only a fine printing and working plant but several large stages and equipment for the Keystone comedy companies, of which there are seven. In Los Angeles proper, film manufacturing is a humming industry. The Selig Polyscope Company has an immense acreage at the famous wild-animal zoo, adjoining beautiful Eastlake Park, which now is in the hands of landscape gardeners and architects, and soon will be a rival to Lincoln Park in Chicago. Six companies are at work there, including the noted organization which creates Selig animal pictures similar to the famous "Adventures of Kathlyn." This studio is run independently of the beautiful Mission plant at Edendale. Out on Sunset Boulevard is the splendid Mutual studio, a plant under the management of the famous David W. Griffith, master producer. Eight directors are at work in this plant, which formerly was occupied by the Kinemacolor. Occupying what was formerly Providencia Ranch, a few miles beyond the Borough of Hollywood and the Mutual Studio, are the pretentious holdings of the Universal, with its army of employees. An average of twelve to fourteen directors is maintained at that place. The number of employees varies from 200 to 500. These include cowboys and soldiers. The Jesse Lasky Company, with such stars as Dustin Farnum, has a fine plant at Hollywood. The J. A.