Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

46 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS Film Drama Fills Dates Like" Road Company Frank Rogers, on Fifty-Two Week Tour of the South, Carries Complete Equipment, with Orchestra and Atsco Accessories DAYTON FILMED FROM AEROPLANE Special to The Motion Picture News. Toledo, O., July 30. Nasser & Brown, of the Starline ^lotion Picture Company, of this city, b.ave secured endorsement of ilayor Keller and the Commerce Club for m.otion pictures to be taken in Toledo for exhibition throughout the country. The first of the series is to be taken soon from Harry AtwGod's hydroplane at Toledo Beach. Atwood will be paid a large sum of money to carry the camera man over the city. The pictures are to show the city in general, including the new postoffice, the new jNIuseum of Art, one of the largest and most beautiful in the United States; the many beautiful parks, streets, fire and police departments in action; industries and transportation facilities. The people of Toledo have taken a great interest in the project and the Toledo newspapers have been carrying the stories in large articles. KLEINE NOT IN SCENARIO MARKET The announcemeiit that George Kleine had begun the manufacture of pictures in America in addition to importing films from the European market, has resulted in hundreds of scenarios being submitted to Mr. Kleine's Chicago offices. For the benefit of free lance photoplaywrights it may be said that Mr. Kleine, for the present at Jeast, will manufacture in this country film subjects adapted from well-known legitimate productions only. The first of these will be "Officer 666" and "Stop Thief." COLLINS NOW DIRECTOR WITH EDISON John Hancock Collins, for four years with the Edison Company, has recently been promoted to the position of director. Under his former title of stage manager, Mr. Collins was responsible for the grandeur of the settings in the Edison films and conceived the idea for. the magnificent booth with the fountain at the recent exposition held at Grand Central Palace. NEW AMERICAN SERIES Harry Pollard is now producing "A Suspended Ceremony," the second of the Beauty series of which "A Midsummer's Love Tangle" was the opening feature. Margarita Fischer plays the lead and Kathie Fischer is playing child parts with a commend;.ble fervor that augurs well for the productions. Fred Gamble takes the part of the erratic judge. The series will contain five productions— each subject complete in itself. FRANIv ROGERS, of Knoxville, Tenn., has bought the rights of "Cabiria" for fourteen southern states and has booked it for production . in all the principal cities of the South, for a period of fifty-two weeks. Mr. Rogers is traveling with two special cars, one Pullman sleeper and one baggage car. He carries an orchestra of sixteen men, wjro double in brass for the big parade, and two camels. In each town visited the orchestra gives a concert in an important theatre before performances and the camels stand guard at the door. Besides this Mr. Rogers takes an advertising man, a bill poster, and an advance man, together with Cecil Wood, the projection expert of the staff of Atsco, Inc., which has been loaned to Mr. Rogers as chief operator during his trip, and Joe Gilligan, a salesman of: Atsco, Inc., who represents the corporation throughout the southern states. Atsco has furnished the most complete motion picture equipment for Mr. Rogers's journey ever gathered together in New York City; in fact, so well provided is the expedition that it would be possible to give a complete performance in the middle of a ten-acre lot if there was not an electric light plant within a thousand miles. THE work is rapidly nearing completion on the new up-to-date studio and factory of the Imperial ]\iotion Picture Company, of New York, Inc., the originators of ''Animated Songs." J. W. Mahan, general manager, declares that he spent one of the hardest years of his life on the task of synchronizing the human voice with motion pictures — the timing of the voice with action in the picture so that they shall be simultaneous. In every solution or attempted solution of the problem heretofore presented to the public, the voice has been mechanically reproduced, as by the phonograph. Mr. Mahan took up the problem on an entirely new basis — that of synchronizing the actual human voice and not its mechanical reproduction with the motion picture, and the result is the "Animated Song." One of its advantages lies in the fact that it forms an enjoyable interlude between the regular pictures. The songs do not require complicated THE equipment consists of two especially made Simplex projectors with aluminum bases and tables, one Radium Gold Fibre Screen, a complete outfit of Ft. Wayne electric mechanism, motor-generator, compensarc, etc., Atsco nitrogen lamps, Temco ticket vending machines, the Amusement Sales Company ticket choppers, the Theatre Specialty jNIanufacturing Company's brass frames, Mortimer film cleansers, GundlachManhattan lenses, Drumona, Cushman electric lighting plant, asbestos booths and the photo display line of the Kraus Manufacturing Company, 14 East Seventeenth street, New York. In fact, every kind of an appliance that is used in a motion picture show was represented. An invitation has been sent out by Atsco and Mr. Rogers to exhibitors in every part of the South to visit his company and see a demonstration of all this equipment. Atsco's expert, Mr. Wood, and its salesman. Mr Gilligan, will be present to handle the business and take orders. This venture marks and displays an enterprise on the part of Atsco quite in keeping with the remarkable things that have been done by that company, since the little company in St. Louis was merged into the larger organization in New York. or costly mechanism, and this wins them added favor from the exhibitors. The Imperial Motion Picture Company are now sending them all over this country and Canada as well as the British Isles, and having made that record in such a short time, minus the advantages of their own studio and factory equipment, much may be expected of them when their own plant is in operation. Besides the manufacturing of "Aninlated Songs," the Imperial iNIotion Picture Company is contemplating the making of one-reel comedies. NEW HOUSE IN LOUISIANA Special to The Motion Picture News Winnsboro, La., July 27. Local capitalists are having plans prepared for the erection of a motion picture theatre in this city. This has been made possible by the commencement of the Carl Shipp electric light plant which is expected to be m operation within a few months. Imperial Studio and Factory Near Completion Company Plans to Produce Two-Reel Comedies in Addition to Manufacturing Its Animated Songs — Extending Its Export Business