Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 4i Trade Notes SURGICAL TECHNIQUE ON FILMS Kinemacolor Photographs by Noted Doctor Motion pictures as an aid to practical surgery are rapidly becoming mere and more important. One of the first companies to enter this field was the Kinemacolor Company of America, which more than a year ago made two reels of pictures suitable and intended for showing only in medical schools and colleges and before specially selected audiences. The educational value of this film to the lay mind was undeniable. It showed graphically the ravages which disease, unchecked, may make. Now the Kinemacolor Company of America has gone a step further and has taken motion pictures of great technical value to the medical profession, pictures which will reproduce the art of a great surgeon as minutely and as faithfully as a phonograph does the voice of a singer, or a portrait one's features. Owing to the intimate nature of the film it has not been publicized. The pictures were taken recently at the Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell's Island. They show Dr. Sprague Carlton, the famous surgeon and lecturer, performing various operations. Dr. Carlton will use the films to illustrate his lectures throughout the country before medical societies. "Close camera work" was used very freely. That is to say, the pictures were photographed with the lens of the camera but two or three feet from the surgeon's knife. In this way every movement of the hand may be seen, and the technique of the operation closely observed. The pictures were taken of carefully selected subjects. In many cases the "specimens," as doctors call patients at clinics, were in the last stages of disease. Several days ago Dr. Carlton delivered his first lecture, illustrated by the Kinemacolor pictures, at Syracuse, N. Y. That was only the forerunner of others. But Dr. Carlton cannot lecture forever. Here comes the value of the motion pictures. His technique will not be lost to the world when he is. The method of the great surgeon will be preserved on the celluloid, and the medical profession and sufferers will be the richer thereby. A national holiday for all the school children of Italy has been declared by the king in order that school children may have an opportunity to witness "The Last Days of Pompeii." Special equipment has been provided by the Italian government for its many schools which are not now equipped even with stereopticon. This is probably the highest tribute ever paid a motion picture. FLORENCE Lawrence, who is being featured in Universal-Victor plays, has departed from her usual roles and promises a surprise in "The Third Generation," written by Walter MacNamara. She plays the part of a modern New York Jewish girl. There is the eternal clash of creed and race. Maibelle Heikes Justice, whose name is well known in the literary world and who has furnished many admirable stories for the Selig Polyscope Company, has prepared a novelty play of the North country that promises to be most interesting, picturesque and dramatic. It deals with the lives and rugged romance of the woods-people. She has spent a good part of the Summer in the Canadian woods, and for a month past at Camp Point, in Minnesota, living in the open. "Venomous Tongues" is the title of the first Celio release, in two parts, to be marketed by George Kleine in this country. That famous beauty, Francesca Bertini, is again seen under the Kleine banner and in a subject that should prove a fitting vehicle for her reappearance in America. Advance reports claim that the new Celio brand will prove a big surprise to the trade. Featuring Miss Bertini and the well-known actor, Mr. Ghione, in multiple-reel subjects only, picture fans will find delight in the work of two players who have been called the "most Anglicized players in Europe." With the completion of the new mammoth stage, which is in the course of construction, the Universal studios at Hollywood, Cal., will have the largest stage in the world. Seven carloads of lumber have already been utilized in the construction of this stage. It is sixty feet wide and four hundred feet long, containing 24,000 square feet of floor space and adjustable light diffusers. This stage, when completed, will accommodate 3,000 persons at once. "For the Love of a Toreador" is the Kleine-Cines release for November 18th. It is the first of a series of distinctly Spanish plays to make which the Cines Company sent Director Guazzoni to Seville, Spain, some time ago. "For the Love of a Toreador'' will make a sensation throughout America, it is predicted, because of the great bull-fight scene and the fact that the local color is refreshing and new. The picture was staged at the time one of Seville's fete days was in progress, the chief feature of the occasion being the bull-fight in the afternoon. There are fully 35,000 persons in the scenes taken about the bull-ring, and the contests between the matadors and bulls are extremely thrilling and exciting. Harry C. Myers, one of the Lubin directors, is the maker of a film in which he and Earl Metcalfe have a fight on the brink of a roof. Edwin Barbour, of the Lubin Scenario Department, has just recovered from a serious spell of sickness. On his return to the office he found his desk covered with American beauties from the Lubin admirers. Earl Metcalfe, of the Lubin Stock Company, was the winner of a motorcycle race, which was held in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 18th. The course was two miles around and sixteen miles to cover the win. Earl carried away with him the silver trophy, making the second prize he has captured since he became a motorcyclist. A picture of the race was taken, and L. S. McCloskey, the scenario editor, is writing a photoplay of it. After months of wire-pulling and quarrels with the Mexican authorities, the Itala Film Company has effected the return of the shipment of "A Leap of Despair," which in error was reconsigned to Mexico. In consequence of this mistake, the Itala shipments have been interrupted. All delays will now be adjusted. "A Leap of Despair" is a four-reel subject which has had success on the Continent. It will be shipped after or before "The Queen's Jewel," another four-reel subject. The Ambrosio version of "The Last Days of Pompeii" is now being presented at the Bijou Theatre in New York City, with twenty-two more companies covering all of the United States and Canada. Mr. George Kleine has fifteen companies touring the United States and Canada with his photo-drama, "Quo Vadis," and twenty-two with the Ambrosio version of "The Last Days of Pompeii." Owing to the increasing demand for one-reel Kay-Bees, the New York Motion Picture Corporation has decided, beginning the week of November 10th, to release two Kay-Bees a week, Tuesday and Friday.