Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

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2088 ACCESSORY NEWS SECTION Vol. 14. No. 13 Educational Pictures Bought — Sold — Released. Commercial and Industrial Films. Superior Developing. Printing and Coloring. Capacity Unlimited SUPERIOR FILMS CO. ROBERT A. BRACKETT, Manager (Entire 10th Floor) 643 South Olive Street Knickerbocker Building, Los Angeles. Phone A3372 Studio Reservations by Day, Week or Month. Artificial Lights. Fire Proof. Miniature Reproductions. Trick and Novelty Effects. Titles While You Wait Perfect Developing and Printing TITLES in any lan^age C ^ per foot ^-'w* complete Cards Free Tinting Free Satufaction goaranteed by oor fifteen years' experience Special price on qaantity orden GUNBY BROS., Inc., 145 West 45lh Street, New York City Negatives Developed . Ic. ft Positive Printing .... 4c. ft. "^^^ Universal Camera For Motion Photography Branche. I 1°°^ New York urancbei \ Market St.. Sail Francisco Write for Illustrated Catalogue The UNIVERSAL CAMERA CO. 559 W, Jackson Blvd., Chicago QUALITY means EVANS means PERFECTION We Do Particular Work (or Particular People Developing and Printing ONLY Evans Film Manufacturing Company Numbers 416-418-420-422 West 216th Street Telephone 6681 Audubon NEW YORK CFTY Best on the Coast Your negatives entrusted to us are developed and printed in the largest, most thoroughly equipped laboratory on the Coast. Let us have that " rush order " for a trial. Pacific Film Laboratories DEVELOPING AND PRINTING 5813-27 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, Gal. l)apers, heralds, slide aniujuncements and weekly programs, he got the attention to his house it deserved. The Sherman is forty by one hundred and twenty feet, with a lobby measuring eighteen by twenty feet, and seats 650 people. The house is kept cool with electric fans and seven galvanized syphon ventilators in the roof. Even in that mild climate around the San Francisco Bay heat is sometimes necessary in the evening, and gas heaters and bunsen burners have been found sufficient to obtain the right temperature at night in the Sherman. 1 '* SHERMM [I'm »it;nplmfc| pANTE^IItFai III 1 Sherman Theatre, San Francisco Simplex projectors are in use, and the throw is ninety feet. Part of the booth equipment consists of a Preddy economizer and a Preddy rewinder. Aluminum paper over plaster of paris takes the place of the regular standard screens in use in the majority of picture theatres. The general interior decorative scheme consists of brown and white walls, with a frescoed ceiling. Framed photos of players are used to excellent advantage in the lobby. Oak billboards and glass wallcases help to make the lobby a business drawing magnet. A Wurlitzer furnishes the music for the performances, which are continuous from one until eleven at night. During the day five cents is the admission charge, raised to ten for the evening shows. Six to eight reels are run off for each bill. Five employees have been found necessary to manage the house properly. The pictures are selected from various programs. A B C OF THE OPERATING ROOM {Conthmed from page 2078) struction, otherwise there is a possibility of great vibration wath its attendant noise. Again let me say : Never overload, either the transformers or the carbons, for if you overload the transformer you are in danger of impairing its usefulness, and if you overload the carbons you will have a very noisj' arc and one which will be so much harder to handle. L G. Sherm.^x. (To he continued next tceek.) THE BIOSCOPE u The English Trade Journal of the Moving Picture Industry Annual Subscription (post free) 14s. (Dollars $3.50) 85 Shaftesbury Ave. , London, N.W. WHEN YOU NEED A Camera Man Phone Bryant 6558 CINEMA CAMERA CLUB 1006 Times BIdg., New York City GHOSTS them ? Do you know what a ghost is ? Do you have ghosts in your pictures ? Do you how to get rid of Let us send \ ou our booklet "Ghosts."