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

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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 #:
000485
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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292 Cfje Cficatte enterprises which in those days were called variety shows. One day about fourteen years ago he chanced to see advertised on the front of a theatre "Black Diamond Express," and investigating he discovered that it was a moving picture exhibition. He convinced himself that it v/ould be worth while to part with a half dollar to see the picture. Right there he sav/ the possibilities of the motion picture business, and it was not many weeks after that Montgomery was on the road with a picture outfit. He collected a great number of films during his years of travel, it being necessary to buy them outright from the manufacturers. With varying success, he traveled the Western section of the country, the passage of time bringing out many others who, like Montgomery, had seen a chance to make money with picture films. It is interesting to recall that in the early days of picture making, some of the reels were but 50 feet long, and at the utmost not over 400 feet. The subjects dealt with sensational things such as train wrecks, horse racing, train robberies, and other swift moving dramas which catered more to the lover of excitement than to the person of refined tastes. It would be a long and unnecessary story to follow Montgomery from the beginning to the end of his travels with a traveling show of pictures. However, the end of his wanderings found him at Fort Worth, Tex., about nine years ago. There and then he decided to open a moving picture theatre. Nine years ago? Here's where the reader will almost declare that he has been seeing motion pictures in theatres for the past twenty years.