Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

CLASSIC THE MODERN IMPRESSION By CECELIA G. GERSON “And now,” said the teacher, after elaborating upon the lives of the martyred Presidents, “who can tell me something about Abraham Lincoln?” Up jumped little Evelyn. “I know,” she said. “Abraham Lincoln was a great man. He was the President of the United States. He was very kind. He freed the slaves, and he was shot in ‘The Birth of a Nation/ ” Marguerite Nichols, who is making an impression as one of Balboa’s new leading ( Seventyfive) BECOME A SUCCESSFUL PHOTOPLAYWRIGHT It is nine-tenths a matter of Knowing Where to Get Plots and after that a Knowledge of Dramatic Construction. These two prime requisites are now set forth for the first time in the history of Photoplay Writing by the greatest authority on the subject and in a manner that begets immediate inspiration and puts your fingers in touch with ALL THE MATERIAL YOU CAN USE IN A LIFETIME! Tells What Plots Are — Where to Get All the Plots You Can Use — How to Build Them — How to Make Any Material Dramatic — How to Get the Punch Every Time. Also A SPECIMEN PHOTOPLAY and a Revised GLOSSARY. Used in Schools, Colleges and Libraries thruout the United States. Indorsed by ALL AUTHORITIES. "THE PLOT OF THE STORY" “ART IN STORY NARRATION THE PHOTODRAMA By Henry Albert Phillips Member of Edison Staff ; Associate Editor Motion Picture Magazine; Photoplay Lecturer for Y. M. C. A. Introduction by J. Stuart Blackton,Vitagraph. 224 Pages— Cloth Bound Stamped in Gold. Postpaid $2.10 “THE PLOT CATALOG” Y” ) By the same Author All valuable to the Photoplays right. $1.20 each. Any < THE CALDRON PUBLISHING CO. 173 EUFFIELD STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. with “The Photodrama, ” $3.10. Two with same, $4.00. All four Rooks, $5.00. TWO IMPORTANT BOOKS JUST OUT The Art of the Moving Picture By VACHEL LINDSAY Author of “The Congo and Other Poems,’’ etc. Cloth, 289 pages, 12mo, $1.25. By mail, $1.35 Mr. Lindsay’s book is one of the first to be written in appreciation of the moving picture. His purpose is to show how to classify and judge the better films. He describes the types of photoplays, discusses the likeness of the motion picture to the old Egyptian picture writing, summarizes the one hundred main points of difference between the legitimate drama and the film drama, indicates that the best censorship is a public sense of beauty and takes up the value of scientific films, news films, educational and political films. The volume closes with some sociological observations on the conquest of the motion picture, which he regards as a force as revolutionary as was the invention of printing. These two books fill a long-felt want. Mr. Lindsay is the first writer to take up this great subject and discuss the pictures in respect to their pictorial, sculptural and architectural effect. Every person interested in Motion Pictures should read this book. It will give him a new viewpoint, and it is extremely interesting. Mr. Dench’s book is a book of facts and information. There are other similar books on the market, published years ago, and some of them are a trifle antiquated; here we have it brought right down to the minute by a writer who is well known to the readers of the Motion Picture Magazine and Classic. Making the Movies By ERNEST A. DENCH Cloth, 177 pages, 12mo, $1.25. By mail, $1.35 An informing little book is this, describing the way in which moving pictures are made. There are chapters on Putting On a Photoplay, Movie Stars Who Risk Their Lives for Realistic Films, 'How Railroad Photoplays are Made, How Fire Films are Taken, Making Cartoons for the Movies, Taking Films Under the Sea, The Work in a Film Factory, Aviation and the Movies, The Production of the Trick Photoplays and many other equally interesting topics. Mr. Dench knows the moving picture business from the inside and has written most entertainingly on his subject. M. P. PUBLISHING CO., 175 Duffield St., BROOKLYN, N. Y. women