Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1920)

4136 (Equipment Service) Motion P i c t u r e News Shackelford and His Akeley Make Good {Continued from page 4144) players were full size on the screen or " closeup " in motion picture parlance, and the plays were seen on the screen many times clearer than if one had the choicest seat at the actual game. Next came other pictures of fast action, pleasing to the eye but puzzling aS to how they were made. There was the opening game of the World Series Baseball in Brooklyn — one writer stating that they must have been made from an airplane hovering over the field, so closely were the plays followed. And then came the Man O' War-Sir Barton Race that was heralded on the screen as a thriller of thrillers. Shackelford made a view of the race better than was possible to obtain by anyone at the track seeing the actual race. He followed the horses completely around the track, keeping them both in the picture and full size on the screen. These pictures have been made possible by the Akeley Camera, a new and advanced type invented by Carl Akeley, a big game hunter and explorer, who found the usual make of Motion picture camera inadequate for his work. This camera by a unique pan and tilt device permits the operator to follow a moving object at will regardless of speed. The pan has a range of News Notes The New Stanley Theatre, now in process of erection at 19th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, will be equipped throughout with railings made by the Newman Manufacturing Co., of Cincinnati. The contract is somewhat unusual in several respects. All railings are two inches in diameter, and the specifications call for a special statuary bronze finish. The sum total is close to $10,000, including erection. The proscenium, loge and side boxes, and the balcony front are to be equipped with railing. The orchestra will have railing with removable posts or standards. All stairs and vomitories will be fitted with hand rails. Another contract placed with the Newman folks covers ten especially cast display frames to be finished in statuary bronze and erected on the walls of the 19th Street entrance of the New Stanley. These frames will cost nearly $250 apiece. The Hoffman.Henon Co., architects and engineers of Philadelphia, awarded these two sub-contracts. The Howard Theatre to be opened in Atlanta 360 degrees and the tilt 140 degrees and both can be operated simultaneously by a single lever; pointing the camera as easily as one would a gun or pair of field glasses. Mr. Shackelford has also produced several new and startling results in the studio while working on big productions with this camera. At this writing he promises us a new thrill in slow motion pictures in which he takes and follows the speeding object. P. A. McGuire, advertising manager of Nicholas Power Co., zvas present at the laying of the Loew State Theatre corner stone. on or about December 1st — one of the fines; houses in the South — will be equipped wit.i Newman railings. The stairs to the mezzanin; floor, the upper and lower vomitories, the loge boxes, the balcony and the orchestra — all these will be fitted with polished brass railings. (Hentz, Reid & Adler, architects. R. M. Walker & Co., general contractors.) The Denver Theatre Supply Company has installed two Power's 6B, Type "E" Projectors complete with Westinghouse Motor Generator Set, Minusa Gold Fibre Screen, Brenkert Spotlight and other accessories, in New Strand Theatre, Rawlins, Wyoming. This theatre will be opened about Christmas. This company has also sold Power's 6B complete with Inductor and other equipment to Percy R. Devereux, Lacinema Theatre, Eads, Colorado. Fulco Sales Company is the latest retailer of theatre equipment, specialties and accessories to enter the Chicago field, and will specialize on de luxe equipment for high-grade moving picture houses. For the present the sales rooms will be located at 3200-08 Carroll Avenue, in the building occupied by the E. E. Fulton Company. Carl H. Fulton, known from coast to coast as the live wire sales manager of the E E. Fulton Company, is president of the new concern, which starts in as distributors of a big line of well known equipment and accessories, including Gardiner Velvet Gold Fibre Screens, Argus G.E. Equipment and Argus Crystal Bead Screens, and the entire line of specialties, equipment and accessories manufactured by the E. E. Fulton Company. Kremintzer Given Gold Watch At a recent meeting of the Moving Picture Theatre Attendants' Union, Local 16,920 of New York, the executive board Adolph Kremintzer presented Adolph Kremintzer, its delegate, with a diamond studded gold watch in recognition of his untiring work for the organization. Mr. Kremintzer has been instrumental in organizing the 2,000 members which the local boasts at the present time. His latest additions have been Messrs. Rothmiel and Lesselbaum, managers of the recently opened Stone and Stadium theatres of Brooklyn. Louis Simon, the secretary of the local made the presentation speech, after which he announced that a ball would be given by the union in the near future. 1044 CAMP ST., NEW ORLEANS. LA. 255 NO. 13-ST., PHILADELPHIA PA. 64 W. RANDOLPH ST.. CHICAGO. ILL. Highest Quality Lowest Price* Sixth Floor, Telephone Bryant 1136-1137 INDEPENDENT MOVIE SUPPLY CO. 729 SEVENTH AVE. NEW YORK WILLIAM F. 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