Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

October 28, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 2661 Glimpses of the Main Action in " Boots and Saddles," the Next Moss Release Founded on Eugene Walter's Play SUNBEAM WILL RELE:\SE PICTURE WITH TY COBB AS THE SHINING STAR The Sunbeam Motion Picture Corporation, with offices at 220 West Forty-second street, will release about the latter part of the month a baseball picture featuring Ty Cobb called " Somewhere in Georgia." The story was written by Grantland Rice, the well-known sporting writer. In speaking of the new production Wilbur Dunham, of the Sunbeam company, said : " In putting Ty Cobb into motion pictures it has been our aim to give him first a good story and we think we have accomplished this. Many of the incidents in it have been taken direct from Ty Cobb's own life. In this picture he does more than play baseball, although there is a plentitude of the latter throughout the whole production. The picture is a delightfully clean little romance, replete with high-class comedy relief and baseball. Ty Cobb is shown in all of his brilliancy on the diamond and at the bat. None of these baseball pictures were specially posed, but were taken at regular games between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Browns. A special trip was made by the company to St. Louis for the purpose of getting these scenes." Besides the baseball luminary the supporting cast is made up of such wellknown picture people as Elsie MacLeod, William Corbett, Harry Fisher and Nat Burton. Credit for Submarine Pictures Due Williamsons The Brothers Are the Inventors of Apparatus Making It Possible to Film Life at Bottom of Sea — Are Establishing Offices Here and Abroad HAM AND BUD AT WORK IN " MERRY MOTOR MENDERS" Ham, the Kalem fun-maker, is busily at work staging an elaborate one-reel comedy, " The Merry Motor Menders," at the Hollywood (California) studio. An abundance of trick photography is required in this story, which finds Ham and Bud the proprietors of a road-side garage. Business is slow in coming, so Ham and Bud use all sorts of expedients, from tacks and broken bottles to dynamite, to bring it to them. Ethel Teare and Henry Murdoch are also seen to advantage in this single reeler. It is scheduled for release Tuesday, October 31. On the preceding Tuesday, October 24, Kalem releases " The Bogus Booking Agents," a one-reeler, in which the same all-star quartette, Ham, Bud, Ethel Teare and Henry Murdoch, is also seen. WITHOUT intention to deceive, some of the most reliable of the daily and weekly papers have erroneously published statements and news items which have had a tendency to mislead as to where the true credit for all Submarine Motion Picture photography rightfully belongs. The A\'illiamson Brothers alone are the originators and sole producers of this latest and most valuable addition to the motion picture industry, and the only pictures now before the public which have been manufactured with the aid of the Williamson Inventions and Submarine photographic devices, are " The Williamson Submarine Expedition Pictures," now being shown in nearly every corner of the universe, and the unusual and marvelous submarine scenes in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," which opened at the Studebaker theatre, Chicago, on October 9. Without the aid of these inventions and devices and the scientific knowledge and accomplishments of the Williamson Brothers, neither of these pictures could have been manufactured. In a period of time covering more than four years the A\'illiamson Brothers and the Submarine Film Corporation have expended a half million dollars in continuous undersea re search, with submarine chambers, collapsible tubes, diving devices and special photographic appliances, all of which have been fully protected under United States nd foreign patent rights. During these years of operations and research work the Williamson Brothers have gone down under the sea, through the Williamson tube, to the photographic chamber below, and have cruised about over the floor of the ocean, searching out locations of practically all the old wrecks known in the West Indies, and have chartered their locations carefully for future use. Floating studios, fully equipped for the carrying of one or more companies and directors, will encircle the islands of the West Indies, making pictures with tropical background and native environment. Seagoing yachts of sufficient capacity for this work have been contracted for, and in addition to submarine pictures, tropical and marine features will be produced in lengths ranging from five to ten reels or more. Executive offices are established on the eighth floor of the Longacre Building, New York City, and branches are being opened in London, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sydney. Douglas Fairbanks Is Back in Los Angeles Player Is at Work in " Matrimoniac," Written by Cohen and Directed by Powell for Triangle-Fine Arts — It Will Appear in All-Story Magazine When Picture Is Released DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, of TriangleFine Arts is back at the Los Angeles studio of the company at last and has already started working in another picture, under the direction of Paul Powell. This is called " The Jilatrimoniac " and was written with Air. Fairbanks in mind by Octavius Roy Cohen. Simultaneously with the release of this picture, which is due in the holidays, the story will appear in the AllStory Magazine, as a four part novel. On his way West Mr. Fairbanks wired to Mr. Aitken that he wanted John Emerson who directed him in " His Picture in the Papers" to come West and take charge of his productions and that he wanted Anita Loos, who wrote the same picture, to do all the writing of his subtitles. Mr. Aitken granted both these requests and automatically brought a valued tri-star combination into play. " The Matrimoniac " is a picture that opens with an elopement. The father of the girl concerned, goes off in irate pursuit, catches the prospective bridegroom, Mr. Fairbanks' character, locks him up in a hotel and then summons the police, telling them that his captive is a maniac on the subject of getting married. A number of lively situations ensue and of course Fairbanks comes out of it all on top — and still smiling. On his way back to Los Angeles from New York, Mr. Fairbanks stopped off at Denver, Colo., his home town and was feted and honored like a presidential candidate. Aside from being asked whether or not he could "lick" William Farnum, making speeches and hits on upturned soap boxes, he was dragged up on the stage of one of the local houses by Mayor Speer and presented to an eager audience.