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Vol. VIII, No. 10.
"A Man Among Men." Copyright 1912, Selig Polyscope Co.
A Film Study of Street Conditions
At the Cities Exposition held recently in Duesseldorf , Germany, the perils of street traffic were illustrated in a convincing manner by means of kinematographic pictures made by the Duesseldorf Street Railway Company. Everybody knows that it is dangerous to board or to alight from a moving car. Statistics show that nearly fifty per cent of all street railway casualties are due to this foolish practice. One film showed a woman alighting from a slowly-moving car in the usual careless manner and coming to grief in consequence. In contrast was exhibited a film bearing the device "The Left Hand on the Left Handle," and showing a woman alighting properly and safely. A third film illustrates the danger which a person walking, driving or cycling behind a car incurs by shifting to the other track without assuring himself that his new course is clear. The film shows a bicyclist turning to the left from behind a car and colliding with an automobile moving in the opposite direction. Another film illustrates the notorious bad habit of truckmen and hackmen, who persist in obstructing the tracks in defiance of the warning gongs and whistles of overtaking trolley cars. This obstructive policy of drivers should be combated by energetic measures. It is intolerable and absurd that thousands of persons should be delayed daily in this age of haste by the selfish obstinacy of a few drivers. The time-saving and other advantages of the new type of street car, in which the exit is separate from the entrance, are also shown by comparative kinematographic studies.
The Selig Parrot Gives Advice
While the Selig western company was producing a picture entitled "Object Matrimony," recently, the producer had occasion to use a talkative parrot in some of the scenes. Miss Myrtle Stedman, playing the part of an eccentric old maid, was supposed to fall violently in love with a young cowboy. The cowboy, in his efforts to escape from the old maid's clutches, placed her and her parrot in his single seated rig and started to drive at a break neck speed for his ranch. As the buggy rounded a sharp turn and came into full view of the camera with Miss Stedman clinging madly to the neck of the cowboy, the producer and other members of the company, watching the scene, were suddenly convulsed with laughter. The parrot had inspired the mirth by shrieking at the top of his squeaky voice, the advice, "Cut it out, you dam fools, — cut it out!"
Railroad Teaches Firing by Pictures
A moving picture show, operated by the Union Pacific railroad in the local yards, was the Mecca of employees of that road in Omaha, recently. Model methods of firing locomotives are shown by the films, which show pictures taken by the educational department. Good and bad practices are illustrated side by side, and firemen are expected to glean knowledge by the comparison. The moving picture car has been traveling over the Harriman system and with excellent results, according to officials.