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MOTOGRAPHY
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Photoplays From Essanay 's
Features for June
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FTER weeks of preparing scenery and costumes, the Essanay 's special train steamed out
Chicago Wednesday morning. May
bearing tlie mammoth company who are to portray "The Fall of .Montezuma."* a tale of the conquest <<\ Mexico, which will be released in three reels. Over two hundred people are employed in the taking of this stupendous film-pageant, and the "special" will be their home until the completion of the last foot. Besides the company the train carried attendants, physicians and Red Cross nurses ti give immediate attention to any who may sustain injury during the staging of the picture, two cameras with their operators, the two producers who are directing the production and a small army of expert clay modelers who will fashion the massive settings required to duplicate the architecture of the ancient Aztec empire. The costumes needed for this great film taxed the capacity of one of the largest concerns in the country for the space of two solid months, and a score of carpenters were in a turmoil night and day at the big Chicago studio to get out the mammoth sets in time to put them aboard the "special." The Essanay Company is sparing neither money or energy in making this great pageant one of the finest masterpieces ever attempted in film history, and the project assuredly affords striking opportunity for brilliant production.
For the month of June Essanay has booked seven great western dramas featuring G. M. Anderson, that
Day at Churchill Dc
Under the Wire!" Scene from "Derby Dav at Churchill Downs.'
master player and director, six sparkling comedies and four striking dramas from the Chicago studio.
The great Kentucky derby, run at Louisville May 11, and won by the fast three-year-old "Worth," was filmed by Essanay, which had three camera operators and a director on the scene. Excellent views of the race, the enormous crowds, glimpses of the stables, grooming of the thoroughbreds for the contest, the group of jockeys, the paddock, judge's stand and the neck-and-neck finish at the wire were secured and will be released as a regular full-reel feature on June 21 entitled "Derby Day at Churchill Downs." One camera, set up on the roof of the grandstand and mounted on a revolving platform, caught the entire race with a longrange lens from start to finish. Nothing is more exciting than a good horserace, and the dash of the closely huddled bunch of horses into the stretch and under the wire with "Worth" leading by a nose is vividly depicted and will cause racing fans to want to mount their seats and yell themselves hoa with enthusiasm.
Mi- Martha Russell's first appearance in the new Essanay subjects is in "The Return of William Marr," booked for release June 20. The plot is strong, and affords Miss Russell excellent opunity for the dramatic acting that .von her an enviable reputation. \ brief synopsis of the story shows that Marr is a drunkard and out of work. His wife refuses to give him money and he leave her in a rage. Marr now