Exhibitors Herald (Jul-Sep 1922)

26 EXHIBITORS HERALD July 1, 1922 New Kempf-Kane Corporation to Build Huge Film Warehouse Rothacker Will Lease Section of Mammoth Structure for Motion Picture Laboratory Purposes {Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, June 20. — Film Storage & Forwarding Corporation, capitalized at $150,000, has been organized with Hugo H. Kempf as president; Arthur S. Kane, vice president; John C. Ragland, treasurer, and Robert F. Noonan, secretary. The executives will serve also as the board of directors. THE company's first project will be the erection of a film warehouse at Long Island City at an estimated cost of $200,000. The structure will occupy a plot of ground \ 102 feet by 145 feet at Harris and Van Alst avenues. When completed in September, the warehouse will have a capacity of 12,000 cans of film and 0,000,000 feet of raw stock. There will be forty-one vaults for positive and „ „ „ , negatives and Hugo H. Kempf twQ fof raw stock. The building also will house three projection and two a laboratory which by Watterson R. Rothacker, president of Rothacker Film Manufacturing Company. M r . Rothacker will specialize in first print work. The plant will be of a thoroughly modern type, equipped with the most approved fire prevention materials and devices. The cutting rooms and has been leased Arthur S. Kane plans and specifications have been examined, approved and passed by the authorities of the New York fire department, the bureau of fire prevention, and the New York board of fire underwriters. It is declared that promise has been given of a fire insurance rate on the contents of the warehouse, when the plant is opened for business, at least 50 per cent below the prevailing rates on risks of a similar character. President Kempf was formerly with the Robertson-Cole interests, as treasurer of Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation, Robertson-Cole Studios, Inc., and Robertson-Cole Realty Corporation, and secretary of Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation. He resigned these positions in March last to devote his entire time to the new enterprise. Mr. Kane is president of Associated Exhibitors, Inc., and Arthur S. Kane Pictures Corporation. He organized the latter enterprise and directed the reorganization of Associated Exhibitors, more than a year ago. He also was first president of Realart Pictures Corporation Mr. Ragland is secretary of Associated Exhibitors, Inc., and has been vice president and general manager of Arthur S. Kane Pictures Corporation since its organization. * * * Mr. Noonan for years has been a close student of motion picture insurance in all its phases, and it is due largely to his intimate acquaintance with the subject and his untiring efforts, it is said, that the new company will be enabled to give the picture industry such a rate on negatives as has never been possible in the past. The construction of the new plant has been entrusted to Wharton Green. Producers in Accord With Hays' Edict on Pictures Says DeMille (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 20.— "The motion picture industry to a man is behind Will H. Hays in his fight to maintain the high moral and artistic standard of motion pictures." That is the declaration made of Cecil B. DeMille, director-general of Paramount pictures, following Mr. Hays' notices outlining the standard which he has set for motion picture production. "We are making pictures today," Mr. DeMille pointed out, "that are in complete accord with Mr. Hays' ideals." Says Abrasion Marks Excluded by Process Powers Declares Important Contribution Is Made to Industry (Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, June 20. — P. A. Powers of Powers Film Products, Inc., announces that his laboratory "has perfected a very important improvement in motion picture film" which will enable "us to treat our stock during the process of manufacture so as to eliminate the possibility of abrasion marks due to friction, pressure, streaks, finger prints, etc." Gives Freedom in Handling This process, declares Mr. Powers, produces a film whose cleanliness can not be equalled by ordinary easily abraded stock, and gives greater freedom in the handling. "The protection thus given the film against these defects," he says, "marks another contribution to the artistic and mechanical progress of the industry." Pressure Causes Marks "Pressure, rubbing, scratches, etc.," continues Mr. Powers, "are the forms of frictional stress which produce thi.se abrasions or friction marks. "Photographic papers and plates have been more subject to abrasion marks than cine film, and means had to be devised to protect the surface against this danger, but so far nothing had been done in that direction on motion picture emulsions." 101 Years Old; Never Saw Film (Special to Exhibitors Herald) CANNELTON, IND., June 20.— John L. Irvin, manager of the local motion picture theatre, has extended the courtesies of his theatre free of charge to "Uncle" Jerry Souders, aged 101, who has never seen a motion picture. "Uncle" Jerry will stop outside to hear the music but declines to enter because, as he says, "I wasn't never no hand for pictures, anyhow." Musicians May Return To Work at St. Louis (Special to Exhibitors Herald) ST. LOUIS, MO., June 20.— The strike of the musicians employed by the St. . r» I Louis motion picture theatres and air-/ (jttnnMg Product to domes may be called off within the next few days pending arbitration of the points at issue. The walkout occurred April 30. Through the efforts of Rudolph Ganz, director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, committees representing the union and the theatres will meet tomorrow to discuss the points at issue and it is believed that the musicians will agree to return to work. Will Manage Newman Theatre in Milwaukee (Special to Exhibitors Herald) KANSAS CITY, MO., June 20.— Howard E. Jameyson, advertising manager of the Lyric and Doric theatres here has resigned to become managing director of the Butterfly theatre, Milwaukee, Wis., one of the theatres with which Frank L. Newman is affiliated. Mr. Jameyson was accompanied to Milwaukee by his wife, whom he married ihe day before his departure. V Be Handled by R-C Distributing Corp. (Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, June 20..— Co-incident with the announcement of the resignation of Wid Gunning as president of Wid Gunning, Inc., it has been made known that the R-C Distributing Corporation will handle the physical distribution of the Gunning output. Gunning has announced that he has disposed of all his interests in the company and will devote all of his time in the future to production. The arrangement with the R-C Distributing Corporation— or the Film Booking Offices, as the Powers concern will be known after this month — becomes effective at once. Wid Gunning, it is said, will maintain its own sales force. At the R-C offices no statement of the deal was obtainable except the information that the F. B. O. would handle the physical distribution.