Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

1014 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 20. the scenario. Joseph W. Smiley, formerly leading director for Lubin, is the director for this production, the name of which is being withheld until its release. Percy Darrell Standing, William W. Cohill and Miss Lucy Cotton assume the leading roles. The varied atmosphere embraced in the scenes takes within its range the semi-tropics of Florida, the mountains and canons of interior Georgia, the deserts of the far west, the decks of a schooner and an ocean liner at sea, as well as the streets of New York. Although the Ocean Film Corporation will form is own regular program of two features a month for the first three months and thereafter a feature a week, the initial production will be sold in all probability on a state right basis although this has not been definitely determined by the offices of the company. Negotiations are pending with several stars of the legitimate stage who have never appeared in photoplays, looking toward their joining the forces of the Ocean Film Corporation. It is expected the first release of this company will be issued about November 15. Cyril Maude of Premo Harley Knoles is to go down in motion picture history not only as a maker of artistic pictures but as one able to direct with lightning rapidity. It is now being discussed in the field how when Premo Feature Film Corporation was first organized that Harley Knoles in two months engaged his star Nat C. Goodwin, engaged his supporting cast, hired his studio, wrote an adaptation of the play "The Master Hand," made the pictures and arranged for releasing through the World Film Corporation. And the wonder of it L t . _, was that "The Master Cyril Maude. Hand" was a truly artistic rendition. In "The Antique Dealer" Mr. Knoles has done scarcely less remarkable wonders. Mr. Knoles has been particularly sagacious in his selection of the supporting stars, many of whom have been with Mr. Maude in previous engagements and others of whom have all been motion picture headliners. Kalem Company on Mojave Desert James Home has just returned from the Mojave Desert where he has been filming scenes for "Stingaree," the series adapted from the novel by that name by Hornung, who wrote "Raffles," and other well known detective stories. Mr. Home and company travelled in a special train carrying one hundred horses for the making of these scenes. Mr. Home is seen in the picture explaining how he wants a scene made, and talking over the story with True Boardman, who plays "Stingaree," the outlaw, Paul Hurst, and Jonasson. Four Acres of Studios Increased demand for the. Flying A, Beauty and Mustang photoplays put out on the new Mutual program has resulted in impressive additions to the plant of the American Film Company at Santa Barbara, California. Within a few days work will be completed on a new glass studio and related structures covering a total of 25,000 square feet, giving the American an aggregate of four acres of studio space at its plant which has recently been enlarged to cover a plot of ten acres. The new glass studio covers an area of 80x130 feet and is 22 feet in the clear inside. Adjoining the studio is a great new scenery dock, workshops, property store rooms and transformer rooms. President S. S. Hutchinson of the American now claims the "world's greatest motion picture plant." A Pathe Star Reviews His Film C. Aubrey Smith, the famous English star of the Frohman Company, personally appeared at the request of C. E. Holah, branch manager of Pathe Exchange, Inc., Cincinnati office, at the Pathe offices in Cincinnati on Friday, October 22, and reviewed his latest film production on the Pathe Gold Rooster program, "John Glayde's Honour," produced by the Frohman Amusement Company for Pathe's program.