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

of%)Cience 331 his work is continued by Mr. Henry Mestrum, who has been active with Mr. Kleine for many years, and who is holding up the standard of the oldest projection concern in the United States. Carl J. Lang, of Olean, N. Y., is one of the rising generation of inventors and mechanics who, since the first problems of the moving picture's mechanical side have been solved, has materially added to the original creation of the many gentlemen claiming the greater credit for the perfection of the mechanism of projection. The Lang Film Winder and the Lang Film Reels are used in the leading studios, including the Edison, and a large number are also used in the finishing department of the Eastman Kodak Company. In addition no less than 7,500 theatres large and small use both the winder and the reel, while over 2,000 have been sent abroad. It is claimed that the General Film Company and its competitor, the Mutual Company, dispose of more Lang Winders and reels than all other makes combined. Mr. Lang is an industrious worker, ingratiating in disposition, and his annual visit to the metropohs to attend expositions and conventions has helped greatly to increase his influence in the industry. One of the best-known film exhibitors and manufacturers in the United States is F. J. Rembusch, of Shelbyville, Indiana. Mr. Rembusch is known everywhere through the fact that he has been instrumental in organizing the exhibitors of Indiana, was National VicePresident, but above all from the fact that he is at the same time the inventor and patentee of the "Mirroi* Screen," a glass curtain that has greatly advanced moving-picture projection. There is probably no part of