Motion Picture News (Apr-Jun 1917)

4074 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 15. No. 26 Film Specialties Gauinont Will Animate Jokes from " Life " in " Reel Life " THAT (iaiiinont rartoonists, in " lU-cl Life," will animate the jokes in " Life " is the impurtaiU annoiincemcnl from the Gaumonl ofliccs this week. A contract arranij;einent with America's most widely read fnn hook wives the exclusive right for this novel " stunt." 'J he second half year stiTrts the usual thrce-.i-wcek (iauuiont releases through Mutual— practically half the "single reel" output through that releasing company — with "Tours Anmnd the World." No. .15, Jidy 3. Hi/iTta. Tunis and Sydney, Australia, capital city of New South Wales, are visited. Bizerta is the second largest I-"rcnch naval port on the Mediterranean. Gaumont has not forgotten what Fourth of July this year will mean to American patriots, and Mutual Weekly of this date will he a special " patriotic number." " Reel Life " Number 62. July 5, besides a " Life" cartoon will show " Making Jewelry at home " ; " Berry Pickers of the South"; "Toys of Wartime." and pictures of government disciplinary barracks under the title " Making Real Men." Scope of Bray-Picto 73 Reaches from Mexico to Japan THE Ilray Studios, Inc.. liave gone far alield for the subjects making up the seventy-third release of their screen magazine, I'aramount-Bray dictographs reaching from a factory town in Ohio to Japan with a stop on the way in southern Texas, including a jump across the border to Mexico. The lirst subject, " American Match Making" is an exposition of the wonders of modern manufacturing methods. The methods thai have made possible the almost negligible cost of a box of matches. This picture starts in the great forests of Canada with the felling of a tree and shows all the processes up to the finished article, neatly packed In boxes and ready for use. A railroad, the oldest doing a regular pasenger business in the United States, makes interesting and amusing material for the second subject. The venerable locomotive that pulls the only train the road can boast of, was put in commis Ainerioan Deer from Educational More " Alaska Wonders " American Deer leads Educntiotial Film Corporation's releases this week, with many types of these beautiful creatures which have sudi curious habits. The majestic stag and the startled fawti serve to illustrate the contrast of subjects in this issue of Diimars' Living Book of Nature. Herds are caught flying over brooks an<l hedges; a munber are shown on a lake of gleaming ice; the long-eared "nude-deer" and the dainty Florida Ij-pe are seen in succession. The fawns, some only a few days old, are the most interesting part of the picture. Alaska "wonders in motion" this vireek gives us an additional view of glaciers forming great icebergs, and some of the native " Kenais " or Esquimaux in their log villages. sion in 1877 and sports a smoke-stack almost as big as itself. The switches are turmed with a crowbar and the brakes set by hand. The newest thing on the road is a pair of goggles just acquired by the engineer. "Fencing in Japan," the third subject, is highly spectacular as the fencers use great two-handed swords more than six feet long and slash at one another apparently with no regard for their limbs or lives. The remarkable dexterity exhibited by the combatants in handling their weapons and in avoiding the blows of their adversary, makes this picture one of exceptional merit. The second cartoon of Wallace Carlson, on the adventure of the ill-starred "Otto Luck" furnishes the humorous feature. In this cartoon. Otto, who has secured a job in the movies is east for a regular " Bill Hart " part and is called upon to rescue the fair Lotta who is held in durance vile by a Mexican bandit. Otto makes the rescue right enough, but not before he gets everybody concerned including himself in more hot water than the famed hot spruigs of Arkansas pour out in a generation. Russian Pictures in Patlie News Pictures from the Eastern W ar Front, views of the Russian Cossacks. Russian Cavalry and showing the lovaltv of Russia s Navy to the allied cause" head th. war^news in Pathe Weekly Issue of June Washington's Boyhood Days Featured in Selig Library Scenes in connection with George Washington's boyhood bead a list of very interesting subjects making up Number 6 of the new Selig World Library, released Wednesday, June 20, in General Film Service. Alexandria, Va., the town surveyed by young George when 16 years of age ; Christ Church, of which he was one of the first vestrymen, and the old hotel at Alexandria where the Father of His Country made his farewell address to the Continental Army, are pictured. Human ligiires on a chess board play an exhibition game in a Chicago boulevarde. The chessboard is twenty-four feet square. Uncle Sam is the richest individual in the world. Pictures are shown of where he turns gold into legal tender. Thousands of seals during the mating season frequent the islands of the Pacific. Here are some of the baby seals. They are left to shift for themselves when able to navigate. Pathe-International Split-Reel " The Kamo Gowa Canal in Japan " from International is an interesting travelogue, taking the spectator from one end of canal to another, showing long tunnels and the manner in which the boats are run down steep places on railroad tracks. " Down Where the Limburger Blows," a Katenjammer Kid cartoon, is a real funny one, the central figure of which is an animated piece of the cheese. " Here and There in Texas Views of San Antonio including the Alamo and San Jose mission, Medina Lake and Dam, shots of Laredo and Corpus Christi, hog raising, wild animals of Texas, and other Texas " sights " is Pathe's " Combitone " offerint^ this week. Edward Guetlein. Gaumont Cameraman. Picturing Costa Rican Milk Vendors