Exhibitors Herald (Jan-Mar 1920)

March 20, 1920 EXHIBITORS HERALD 39 Republic Challenges Of "Beat' Declaring that pictures of not only Lenine, but also of Trotsky, his associate, have appeared on several occasions in Kinograms during the past years, the Republic Distributing Corporation has challenged the claim of Fox News that it scored a notable '"beat" in securing pictures of the head of the Russian Soviet government. "In recent issues of two of the motion picture trade journals the Fox company claims that the news reel it produces contained the first authentic pictures of this well-known politician," states Republic officials. "The publishers of the news reel known as '"Kinograms" have offered for publication proof that this claim is entirely erroneous, and call attention to the fact that more than a year previous to the issue of the Fox News reel in question the Kinograms news reel carried not only pictures of Lenine, but at the same time pictures of his associate. Trotsky. This was in the Kinograms issue No. 1, dated February 1, 1919. Fox Claim ' in Filming of Lenine "Further proof that Lenine has posed for the screen many times is offered by Kinograms in their news reel issue No. 43, issued on June 28, 1919, in which a number of remarkable actions of the Hungarian revolution were photographed and in which Lenine, Trotsky and several other leaders of the revolution were shown. In fact, Kinograms claims this issue of its news reel to be one of the most remarkable ever made of revolutionary Europe. "Later in the issue of Kinograms, dated July 19. last year, issue No. 49, the news reel depicted actual scenes taken in Petrograd during the Bolshevik rule. Such interesting scenes as the leaders of the Bolshevik, including Lenine, and a number of the former nobles of the Russian empire serving in the street cleaning department, were shown in this issue. Has Brave Camera Men "During the past year, the Kinograms' statement says further, pictures of the activities of the Bolshevik in Russia have not been in any way uncommon. In issue No. 50 it is noted that pictures of the methods of the Bolshevik rulers were included and that several excellent 'shots' of the street meetings of the members were obtained. "Kinograms also has brave camera men, as is evidenced in its news reel No. 59, in which several of the scenes show the revolution in progress in Budapest, where big, lazy soldiers stood guard over the populace who were working fourteen hours at a stretch. "It was in this issue that Bela Kun, Red dictator in Budapest, posed for the Kinograms camera men and even so far obliged him as to call his staff together to be photographed with him." Film Northwest Story The next National Film Corporation production starring Francis MacDonald will be a Canadian Northwest story chosen from a number now in the hands of William A. Seiter, MacDonald's director, work upon the same to be started as soon as the star is completely recovered from a recent illness. Cohen Joins Realart Maurice Cohen, who has been connected in the past with Universal and the Gardiner Film Syndicate, has joined the sales force of Realart Pictures Corp. in Buffalo, N. V. TWO POPULAR STORIES OFFERED BY W. W. HODKINSON if Top — Two scenes from "The Harvest Moon" in which Doris K enyon plays the leading role. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley from Augustus Thomas' play. Bottom — Leah Baird, the Arthur F. Beck Star, in "Cynthia of the Minute" from Louis Joseph Vance's story.