Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

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INTERESTING FILM REVIEWS Educational — Industrial — Scenic Birds of the Southern Sea Coast. Edison. (Oct. 6.) — Just why the camera is able to get so near birds and take pictures of them in their native haunts, without their so much as fluttering a wing in protest, the writer cannot understand fully. Many times he has tried as a kid to get near them, only to fail. The Edison Company in the picture above quoted catches the birds in all positions. The "street scavengers." alias buzzards, alias vultures, were the most interesting, and their fights right in the streets of a city were grotesque. Along the Padas River. Pathe. — The Padas River is in the home of the celebrated headhunters, i. e., Borneo. The natives are shown at their principal labor of gathering the expensive woods which grow there. The scenery is of the tropical variety and is delightful. Ethel Barrymore's Home. Kinemacolor. — Miss Barrymore's wonderful home in Mamaroneck. N. Y., is the mecca for all natural and artificial beauty lovers. It is one of the most delightful spots imaginable, and the visitors that daily crowd to the beautiful fountains and trees are never tired of talking of them. The Kinemacolor Company does full justice to the scenery, and the colors are exquisite. Her two youngsters are pictured, together with a number of other boy scouts, in various poses and at different labors. This is one of the series of Famous Footlight Favorites Off the Stage. Others in the set include Bessie McCoy, Anna Held, Lillian Russell. Blanche Ring, and Raymond FTitchcock. Panorama Oi the Cities of Algiers and Tunis. Powers. — These cities always hold a fascination for the European, whether in fiction or in life. No white man has ever learned the intricacies of life there, and it is doubtful that anyone ever will. The only fault to be found with the Powers picture is its brevity. Not enough of the life was shown. The view of Algiers, in particular, looking from the breakwater, is wonderful, but this the camera missed. Internally, the city is awful, but its external view might be rated as the eighth beauty of the world. Riding the Flume. Pathe. — The State of Washington, among its other acquirements, has a reputation for the number of power-houses run by water. This water is often fetched from the tops of the highest mountains in covered wooden and cement channels, called flumes. The Pathe Company has taken some splendid pictures of the Spokane Falls and the powerhouse run by the water in the city of Electron. The scenic effects, as seen from the railway which traverses the entire course of the flume, are excellent. The film, however, is too short for so good a subject. A Journey Through Crimea. Pathe. (Oct. 7.) — Crimea, the cause of one of the greatest conflicts in the history of the world, has been taken by the Pathe Company as the scene for some very interesting pictures. The natural beauty of this country makes it especially interesting, but the picture lacks finish. There are mountain scenes, mosque scenes, street scenes, etc., but there are no group scenes. In the study of a foreign country, especially one so very remote as Crimea, the natives hold as much interest, or more interest, than the actual scenery. Their mode of living, their costumes and habits, their work and methods with which it is done, are what we want to see, too. The picture makes a good filler, and the photography has the usual Pathe quality. Oxygen. Pathe. — The science of chemistry, a deep and interesting Regular In the Clutch of the Paris Apaches. Gaumont. (Oct. 18.) — A typical French melodrama, vibrating with action and bloodshed, but possessing some new features which tend to make it most interesting. Tt is in four parts with good acting and splendid photography, particularly the interior scenes. Jane Mary Laurent plays the lead with her usual care for the smaller things that arc so much in the make-up of the general film. Little Marie, whose father has disappeared and whose mother has died, runs away from school and falls into the hands of the Paris Apaches, where she becomes a drudge of all work, together with a hunchback study, is little understood by the average person, who little realizes its great influence on our daily existence. That air contains 21 per cent of oxygen few know. Hence this film is an important one, and the Pathe Company has brought it out in great detail. The experiments which are shown on the screen are veryr realistic, the photoplay being excellent. Plants that Eat. Pathe. (Oct. 7.) All plants "eat," viz., vegetable life absorbs the rain and richness of the earth, in order to live. But how many people know that there are plants that not only eat animal life, but digest it. The Pathe Company shows a number of these plants in Canada in the act of eating bugs, etc. The pictures are well taken. How Mountains Grow. Pathe. (Oct. 7.) — By the use of plaster models, the audience is able to follow the growth of these mountains. That they do grow has for years been an accepted fact, but to be able to sit and watch them slowly enlarge is wonderful. Deposits from the bottom of the sea contract and force their way to some small mound, where they stick, more forming on top of them and so on ad infinitum. The great dangers to navigation resulting from the growth of these hills cannot be estimated. The Pacific is the worst field for these and coral reefs, which are similar in that they ''grow." Releases whose name is Bosco. The father returns after_ his long absence and receives a letter from the Apaches demanding ransom. Hs goes to their haunt, and is overpowered after he has paid the demand. The police, however, rescue him. The leader. Talmin, escapes with Marie and flees to Nice, followed by Bosco. Here, after a series of adventures, Marie is rescued and returned to her father, who adopts Bosco for his bravery. The Villa Carmen, shown in this picture, is beautiful. Apache work must pay well in Paris when they can live in such a castle as this. Hansel and Gretel. Venus. How many times as a kid have you read