Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

38 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS GOLD MEDAL AWARDED More than seven million people daily attend motion picture theatres, it is estimated. This fact brings to mind what an enormous task it is and has been to safeguard their lives. This is principally attained by means of proper and sufficient safety devices on the projecting machines, and it is interesting to note that a gold medal has just been awarded to the Nicholas Power Company, manufacturers of Power's Cameragraph No. 6-A, by the American Museum of Safety, under whose auspices the First International Exposition of Safety and Sanitation was held at the Grand Central Palace, New York City, December 11 to 20, inclusive. This distinguished tribute to the mechanical genius and untiring efforts of Mr. Nicholas Power has been the occasion of much rejoicing by those who have been bending their energies to uplift the motion picture art, especially with regard to the prevention of fire and accident, and Mr. Power has been heartily congratulated. TO FILM MEXICAN WAR Thomas H. Ince, vice-president and director-general of the New York Motion Picture Corporation, recently detached from his working staff in Los Angeles, Cal., a number of intrepid camera men to take motion pictures of the Mexican war. The pictures taken will be brought and first shown to President Wilson, his cabinet and Congress before they are sent out for release. Six motion picture men will journey to Jaurez, Mexico, where they will be joined by two others already on the scene. Then some of the party will join the Constitutionalist Army, and another coterie will push on toward Mexico City, for the purpose of entering the city and taking motion pictures of scenes of strife there. The camera men's equipment includes a portable dark room, extra lenses, rations, and other supplies sufficient to last several weeks. AN APPRECIATIVE LETTER Clarence J. Harris, Oklahoma City, Okla., wrote the scenario of "The Trail of the Lost Chord," a recent two-reel production of the American Film Manufacturing Company, which met with universal approval and is still drawing full houses. When the picture was run in an Oklahoma house Mr. Harris was so well pleased with the production that he wrote at considerable length to Ed Coxen, who played the lead. The first paragraph reads as follows : "Permit me to express to you my sincerest appreciation for your masterly and artistic work in my drama, 'The Trail of the Lost Chord.' Naturally, I In writing to FRED R. JONES General Manager Inter-Continental Film Co. went to the theatre with no little anxiety and expectancy. To say I was charmed with your work is slightly expressing it; the drama and its lesson depended on you; it all lay with you, and you lifted it to most exalted altitudes and gave to it such a stamp of your own personality that it thrilled me as I felt the strength of your high ideals and magnificent individuality." The letter is much appreciated by Mr. Coxen. CITAGRAPH COMPANY INVADES NEW YORK The Citagraph Company, of Los Angeles, Cal., has opened an Eastern office in charge of E. Stancliff at 145 West Forty-fifth Street, New York City. They will show there shortly their threereel special feature, "Life in a Western Penitentiary," produced under the direction of S. T. Reynolds and C. A. Taylor. This film was made by permission of Governor W. P. Hunt. The Citagraph Corporation also produced the pictures of the transcontinental highway route from Los Angeles, Cal., to Washington, D. C, a film made under the auspices of the U. S. Government Good Roads Department. J..F. F. 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