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MOTOGRAPHY
Vol. VI, No. 2.
builder and every exhibitor who wants to improve the appearance of his house should get a copy. It will be sent free on request to the company.
A number of salesmen in the employ of the General Electric Company were recently given instruction by means of motion pictures in new machinery being made by the company and of improved methods to be employed in using it. The exhibition was given at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, in charge of the local manager of the company.
The Flying-A Bungalow
The illustration shows the western stock company of the American Film Manufacturing Company in El Cajon Valley, Southern California. In the picture are : W. W. Kerrigan, Peter Morrison, Jim Morrison, George Periolat, Robert Coffee, Allan Dwan, Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, Mrs. Morrison, Pauline Bush, A. C. Heimeral, Jack Richardson and S. Beal.
This intelligent looking coterie of moving picture artists, we are informed, are among the happiest and most enthusiastic aggregation of moving picture people in the West. The contented facial expression of the artists in the picture confirm this assertion.
The American company is to be congratulated on the obvious worth of its western company and it is small wonder that the "Flying A" brand of western pictures is attaining such popularity among the exhibitors.
Motiograph in Educational Work
The Motiograph motion picture machine has recently been installed in the following public institutions in New York state: Gowanda State Hospital, Gowanda, N. Y. ; Danamora State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y. ; Binghamton State Hospital, Binghamton, N. Y. ; Soldiers' Home, Bath, N. Y.
Even the progressive undertaker is now considering the installation of the motion picture machine to project upon a screen for the purpose of instructing pupils in the embalming of human bodies after death.
The International Harvester Company of America and a number of other large manufacturing institutions have, within the past year, added to their sales equipments motion picture machines for the purpose of showing through actual eye demonstration the work and the building up of an article for sale, and it is surprising how interesting a demonstration may be developed through this modern means of selling anything, from a harvesting machine to an egg separator. The Motiograph makers claim due credit for having sold to the International Harvester Company the first motion picture machine used in its campaign.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world, is using a 1910 model Motiograph in entertainment work, and in a letter recently received they speak of the splendid success they have obtained through this form of entertainment.
The Western Stock Company of the American Film Manufacturing Company.