Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1919)

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December 2 j , 1919 (Equipment Service) THE CHOICE OF THE PROFESSIONAL Because it combines the most advanced echoes in design, with unique convenience in operation. Everytliing accessible, get-at-able — observable — perfectly simple — simply perfect PEERLESS STANDARD POtlTABLE PROJECTOR Motor (or hand) Drive and Rapid Rewind, Film threads easily, runs in a straight line, without twists or turns and WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT! COSTS A little more to buy A good deal more to build Also Made with Enclosing Magazines Because it contains expensive features heretofore found only in the best Professional Theatre Machines and exclusive features not found in any other projector. This is the Machine That Martin Johnson took to the South Sea Islands to show to the natives. China and India are using with Hand Driven Electric Generators when electric current is not available. Is being ordered by Sweden, Siberia, South America, China, India, Canada, Mexico, etc. Will run ten or more " shows " on one charging of a small ten-cell electric storage battery. The New York, New Jersey, Texas, etc., State^Boards of Health selected to show their Hygienic Films. The Newark Board of Education purchased for use in inspecting all films before sending them out to the Schools. Was selected for Norma Talmadge to enjoy her own and other " movies." Hand Driven Electric Generator Weight 45 Ibs.—Price S150 For 8 Foot Picture Anita Loos presented to her clever husband and co-director John Emerson, to edit his productions. It is not a " stunt " machine. It is not " fool-proof "—was not designed for such users, or for any one not familiar with the nature of celluloid film. But it Will Show a clear, bright, steady, FLICKERLESS twelve-foot picture from any lamp socket, has oilless bearings, helical cut bronze on steel gears, aluminum frame, a balanced shutter of three equal blades and the most perfect 5 to 1 Intermittent Movement known to the motion picture art. Weighs only 23 lbs. and fits in a case only 16 in. x WA in. x 8 in. PEERLESS PROJECTOR COMPANY 32 West 43rd Street, New York City Also Pathe Cinema, Ltd., Bombay, India. Pathe-Phono-Cinema-Chine, Shanghai, Honk Kong and Tientsin, China Other Reliable Foreign Representatives Wanted