Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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Write today for free booklet, which tells you how to correct Ill-Shaped Noses without cost if not satisfactory. M. TRILETY, Face Specialist, 1039 Ackerman Bldg., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. A Temple in the Skies (Continued from page 47) home town. Somehow, he admits, he was ' never good for any kind of work, to hi; mother's sorrow, and in 1892 he quit his job, and went to Japan. On his return he decided to lecture again. He hired a hall and sent announcements to all the people on his mother's visiting list and in the Blue Book of Chicago. This lecture was a huge success. He says : "They all came out of curiosity. They wanted to see what that 'lazy Holmes boy' was up to now." Out of this venture he made $700.00, a pretty fair start for the ambitious youth he was. He kept on with his interesting work of traveling, taking pictures and lecturing and was rewarded with some success. But the year of 1897 was the most important one in his career : Stoddard, then the greatest lecturer on travel, retired from the lecture platform in order to write books and left the field exclusively to Burton Holmes. He found in Mr. Brown both a manager and friend, the alliance with whom has been and still is most successful. In the course of this conversation I found out that Burton Holmes is really one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry, and that he has been producing j travel pictures ever since 1897. This,' was interesting, for he was not only the'1 producer, but also the exhibitor of his own pictures. How did he happen to take to the then little known art of motion picture making, and how did the audience receive his first offering? Well ... in Paris, in the year of 1897, Oscar Depue, his friend and companion and partner, had bought a motion picture camera and developing outfit from the only firm then in existence, Gaumont. It was a Demeny type machine, with 60-millimeter film (the width of the present-da}" film is 30 millimeters), and it was large and cumbersome, but portable. They had all been just a trifle awed by the imposing appearance and complicated mechanism of this new-fangled machine, as compared with the still camera they were used to, and had put off trying out the contraption. Finally, in Rome, the open space in front of St. Peter's Cathedral had been chosen as location for the test picture. Now the thing was to get motion into the motion picture. They waited until at last an old man came along, driving a few goats across the square, the very thing they were looking for. The innocent and unsuspecting goat herd was "shot." As for the first showing, this took place in Chicago, the scene being laid in the Presbyterian Church at Oak Park. Mr. Holmes said : "The audience, who had never seen a moving picture before, sat in a stiff and uncompromising attitude, as if to say 'Amuse us, if you can, but we warn you, we will be hard to please.' Then the little 50-foot film was run off. It occupied exactly 25 seconds, but how it changed the audience ! Neither 'Broken Blossoms' nor 'The Miracle Man' has received more sincere and enthusiastic applause." Since those days, Mr. Holmes has taken moving pictures in almost every known country, and after using them in his lectures has carefully kept the films. Therefore, when three years ago his connection with the Paramount Company was formed he had a ten years' supply of travel film to put at its disposal. He has a laboratory in his apartment, and cuts and assembles and titles all his own films. Oscar Depue, his faithful friend, who used to operate the lantern slides for him during his first lectures in 1892 and 100 Hj