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NEWSPAPER VS. NEWSPICTURE
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"I'll be pleased to have your company into Madrid." And all thru that forty-mile ride the King talked Motion Pictures as enthusiastically as any ' ' picture fan. ' '
Every crowned head of Europe, and most of the notables of our own
KING CHARLES I OF ROUMANIA AND THE QUEEN, CARMEN SYLVA, AT HOME TO THE PATHE CAMERA MAN
country, have appeared before the Motion Picture camera. The company maintains a "library" similar to a newspaper gallery, where a duplicate negative of every celebrity used in the films is kept on file. Thus, whenever any person of note springs suddenly into prominence with a new act, his picture is ready for use. In the popular Photoplayer contest, which is now being conducted by The Motion Picture Story Magazine, a number of votes have been received for "President Taft, of the Pathe's Weekly."
An idea of the scope of the Weekly is given in the fact that the titles of the pictures are printed in fifteen different languages.
The sensational newspapers have attained enormous circulation by telling the news in pictures. That which is pictured is understood and re
membered long after printed words would be forgotten. When a murder occurs, newspapers at once publish a series of pictures, showing all the details of the crime. Jokes, told in pictures, are immensely popular. Would the whole country have roared over the adventures of Mutt and Jeff, had they been told without pictures? Would the pranks of Buster Brown have raised a laugh, which spread round the world, had they been told in unillustrated narrative?
Of all the marvelous achievements of the Motion Picture camera, this seems greatest. To present, weekly, the news of the whole world in a form which is intelligible and attractive to people of all ages, classes, and nation
THE DIRIGIBLE, "ADMIRAL REACE," OP THE FRENCH ARMY, AFTER WINNING THE ALTITUDE RECORD FOR DIRIGIBLES, OF 7,050 FEET
alities; to show, with such accuracy, the actual places and events which are making history, and the men and women who are shaping the destinies of nations, will surely bring all humanity into closer touch and deeper understanding.