The Implet (Jan-Jun 1912)

THE "IMPLET" j* Qtt)t "3mplti THE MOVING PICTURE NEWSPAPER Edited by THOMAS BEDDING Published at 102 West 101st Street, New York SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR SINGLE COPY, 5 CENTS CARL LAEMMLE, President of the Imp Films Co. An Appreciation. In the Gallery of Imp Pen and Photographic Portraits starting with this, the first number of "THE IMPLEX," Mr. Carl Laemmle properly takes precedence I shall not give a conventional biography of Mr. Laemmle, but rather an impression, derived from the opportunity which I have had, of placing him in his right position in the moving picture business of the world. Carl Laemmle has achieved international renown not merely as a successful exhibitor, and renter, but in respect of one outstanding achievement. Whatever success (and it is a large success) may be ascribed to the Independent Side of the moving picture business of the L'nited States is directly traceable to the efforts of Carl Laemmle. Without him, without his strenuous support and example, without his Imp Company and his Pictures, the Independent Side of the business would not have been in its present fine state of organization and success. Every Independent exhibitor, every Independent exchange, every Independent manufacturer throughout the United States owes Mr. Laemmle a personal debt of gratitude for his unswerving championship of the Independent Side in the moving picture business. That is a positive compliment. The negative compliment to Mr. Laemmle is that by the licensed side of the business no man on 1 ^j*sM ^k PW&» > ^^B &i ;ft JQ| i?i H CARL LAEMMLE the Independent Side is more dreaded and respected than Carl Laemmle. Personally, Mr. Laemmle is popular with all whom he meets; he is young (being only 45); is married; has three children; and, in my opinion, has only just commenced a career, which has the most wonderful prospects of ever increasing success in front of it. For he is a man of great mind, head, and heart. T. B. The Greatest Dam in the World (The Imp's Great Industrial Release of January 22, 1912.) The following article, descriptive of the taking of the Imp's industrial masterpiece, "The Greatest Dam in the World," recently appeared in The New York Morning Telegraph : An educational and industrial film of unusual interest will be made from pictures taken here last week of the great work of harnessing the Mississippi River. The dam now being constructed, extending across the river at this point, will be the greatest in the world, and also the longest monolithic concrete structure. The electrical installation is the largest, the water plant the most gigantic, and the power to be developed will be the biggest on earth. In taking the pictures the man with the moving picture camera pointing at every part of the half-mile of workc on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River ana ot the 35 acres of Titanic workshop on the Iowa side, where the immense power house is building, rode on a flat car on the railroads in the works, was carried high to the top of the great traveling cranes in a concrete bucket, climbed down into chasms cut into the bed rock of the continent, and got into all sorts of acrobatic positions in order to get views of every phase of the tremendous activities in the building of the greatest water power in the world. The camera recorded the concrete mixers, a battery suggesting civil war mortars, revolving and pouring out concrete by the cubic Scene from "The Greatest Dam in the World" : SPILLWAY FROM DOWN STREAM yard.