Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

98 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS Valuable Lubin Films Cannot Be Replaced Among Those Irreparably Lost Were Many of Great Historical Interest. Others, However, the Plant will be Able to Remake. Special to The Motion Picture Mews. Philadelphia, July 1. FEW persons who patronize motion pictures are familiar with the old style pictures of a dozen years ago. Every manufacturer of note, regards his first efforts with a keen degree of sentiment. About these old films which are now used largely for either foreign or stock productions, centers a great deal of pride; for in those days the industry had not reached the high state of development which exists today. Imagine then if you can, what must be the loss to a manufacturer who is forced to realize that every one of his historic negatives of the first prints of his first pictures has been destroyed. The recent fire of the Lubin plant in this city, apart from the financial loss, of a half-million dollars' worth of films that could not be insured, caused Siegmund Lubin many a heart ache, which even this stoical business man could not well conceal. Films that were made in his little unassuming laboratory, and which represented his first efforts, meant almost as much to him as the beautiful productions which cost him thirty and forty thousand dollars to make at the present time. Not alone because of a sentimental attachment for these old prints, but largely because they represented the first attempts of an American manufacturer to film objects of interest and incidents which can never take place again. Probably one of the films which Mr. Lubin prized as highly as any which he lost, was that showing President McKinley and his cabinet at Camp Alger during the SpanishAmerican War. He also possessed a valuable film which showed the funeral of the martyred president as well as some films of funerals of foreign monarchs. These, of course, had a large commercial value abroad. WHEN the Lubin Company started to manufacture and produce well-known plays, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the first which the firm made, and Mr. Lubin essayed the part of Simon Legree; and his acting and the entire picture was one of the films which the Philadelphia manufacturer prized as highly as almost any other film in his plant. "Jack and the Bean Stalk" and "Little Red Riding Hood," two of the plays that appealed strongly to the children, who are always dear to Mr. Lubin's heart, were other films that were destroyed and which it is unlikely will ever be restored, as there is no market for them in these days of high-priced productions. Among the other important films which can never be replaced, and which are included in Mr. Lubin's losses are pictures of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo and the Paris Exposition, the Galveston disaster, the San Francisco earthquake, the Transvaal War, the death of Maceo, General Miles and his staff, and several of the naval commanders of the Spanish-American War; and the almost priceless films of the Russo-Japanese war. Valuable pictures of great industrial and educational movements of interest were also lost. Pictures of the Pennsylvania coal strike, films showing wonderful surgical operations by renowned American and foreign medical men, new inventions by men of prominence in the scientific world, and some of the most important reproductions of technical discoveries were destroyed. 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