Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

52 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS NEW RELIANCE STUDIO COMPLETED Edward B. Kinsila Designs Practical Structure Edward B. Kinsila, architect and builder, the moving picture expert who recently built in Berlin, Germany, perhaps the finest theatre demoted to moving pictures in the world for A. H. Woods and an American syndicate, where the pictures may be shown in a brilliantly lighted auditorium by an ingenious arrangement of indirect lighting and a thoroughly darkened stage, has just completed a new studio on practical and scientific lines for the Reliance and Majestic companies on their lately acquired Clara Morris estate at Yonkers. The studio itself is 100 feet by 50 feet, and is built of skeleton steel and white ground glass, all resting on a fifteen foot ceilinged concrete basement to elevate it sufficiently to admit uninterrupted lateral light. The entire roof and the three sides exposed to the sun are built of ground glass set in steel frames too slender to cast a shadow. Ample ventilation is provided by a double row of ventilators along the ridge of the roof and another row under the eaves, all of which may be regulated by turning a wheel on the studio floor. The side rows of sash are portable and may be 'removed in the warm summer months. Three slender trollies that support artificial lights operating on rollers permit of a concentration of artificial lights at any desired point when the daylight is not sufficiently strong, or a combination of artificial and daylight may be used. The floor is well supplied with traps to be used in making pictures. The studio is heated by steam coils fixed to a two-foot base at the bottom of the three glass sides. The north wall, against which is placed the scene dock and a scene painter's frame, is pierced at its middle by a large door designed to communicate with an additional building that will be erected for the storage of properties and additional dressingrooms. The entire basement will be used for factory purposes. FINE INTERIORS CREATE COMMENT "When a Woman Wills," the Kleine-Cines subject to be released Tuesday, December 30, will be a film containing some of the most remarkable interiors ever seen in a motion picture film. "Still" pictures of some of these interiors have excited so much comment that a number of trade papers and film story magazines have asked permission to use photographs of the interiors in forthcoming numbers for frontispieces, covers, etc. In writing to LAST WEEK AGAIN 8 Motion Picture Theatres in seven different cities installed WURLITZER MUSIC. 20 BRANCHES WHY DON'T YOU? IT PAYS WuruTzer 20 BRANCHES CINCINNATI THE PHANTOSCOPE A motion picture projecting machine using standard film, taking current from incandescent lamp socket, alternating or direct current. Can be stopped indefinitely and will not ignite the film. Also projects lantern slides. Remarkably simple and weighs but eighteen pounds. Designed especially for home, school and salesmen. Price, $75.00 complete WASHINGTON, D. C, U. S. A. THE PHANTOSCOPE MFG. CO. The In Tbe City Coziest RESTAURANT On Your Next Visit to New York Do Not Fail to LUNCH at HOTEL MARTINIQUE BROADWAY AT 32nd STREET ' ' The House of Taylor ' ' Where you will be quickly and neatly served in restful Dining Rooms with the best the market affords At Very Moderate Rates The MARTINIQUE is in the Heart of the Shopping District and Most Convenient to all Railroads and Car Lines. The Terminal Station of the Hudson Tubes is right at our doors, and the great Pennsylvania Station just one block away. Good music, refined and homelike. Chas. Leigh Taylor, Pres. Walter Gilson, Vice-Pres. Walter Chandler, Jr., Manager SCENARIO-WRITERS' CLUB Become a member of this organization for your own advancement and benefit. Send your plays here. The usual rates, when requested, for typewriting and marketing your scripts. Criticism and advice on plot, construction, and how to make your play salable, free to members. Entrance fee, $2.00. COURTNEY WENTWORTH, 123-129 West 44th Street, New York City Universal Film Polisher POWER WINDER, REWINDER, EXAMINER, MENDER AND MEASURER ALL IN ONE. HOW CAN YOU GET ALONG WITHOUT? PU1SHKB MPICITT: 1000 Feel 'b Bur. Meiurirr ■■< liwiiiiip 1000 Fill I Mieate. ALL FILM MAKERS OF IMPORTANCE ARE USIHG MY MACHINERY Laboratory Film Winder* of any Detcription. CAMERAS. Eberhard Schneider 219 Second At*. New York £ advertisers please mention "THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS"