Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1908)

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124 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Travelogues Lectures and Slides for Moving Picture Theatres In sets of 12 or more, beautifully colored, artistic lantern slides, many of them with lecture readings. RENTAL PRICE $1.00 PER WEEK AND UPWARDS Show your patrons the grandeur of the YELLOWSTONE, YOSEMITE, NIAGARA EALLS, GRAND CANYON and SWITZERLAND Show them what Uncle Sam is doing at PANAMA, in the PHILIPPINES and with the GREAT BATTLESHIP SQUADRONS Flash before them the wonders of LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN and ST. PETERSBURG Seventy-five sets to pick from. List on application. also send us your orders for CONDENSERS CARBONS OBJECTIVES REWINDERS PARTS OF EDISON AND POWERS' MACHINES and OUR NEW FIRE -PROOF BOOTH Try Our Independent Film Service Don 't run the same films as your competitors FEATURE FILMS, NEW SUBJECTS PROMPT SERVICE WILLIAMS, BROWN <& EARLE Dept. P, 918 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Licensee under the Biograph Patents All purchaser! and users of our rilms will be protected by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company CORRESPONDENCE. ANENT SLIDE COPYING. Chicago, August io, 1908. My Dear Sir: Yours of recent date with clipping received. I regret to state that there are several firms in Chicago who are copying and making song slides: the quality of these slides is inferior both from a photographic standpoint as well as color. I do not know to which firm the author of this article refers, but agree with him in regard to the "punk" slides that are offered for sale by some Chicago firms. There has been a great deal of poor material on the market and apparently the public are not willing to pay for higher priced slides. In addition to this, there are many firms who do no posing, but depend entirely upon securing one of the first copy of new song slides, from which they make negatives. From such negatives they offer slides at lower price than we will furnish them, and a great many of the film renting firms will purchase these cheap slides in preference to a higher grade that cost a little more. It is for this reason we are doing at present comparitively little in the illustrated song work. Y\~e have been devoting our time and energy to other lines of the slide work, which we find more profitable and much more satisfactory. With best wishes, I remain. Most sincerely yours, X. [The above is a copy of a letter received from a prominent Chicago lantern slide manufacturer by another slide maker in Xew York City. The writer is wrong in the belief that the public are not willing to pay for the best slides.' They are getting wise to the work of the copyist and good work is always in demand. — Ed.] BACKER WANTED FOR NEW PROJECTING MACHINE. Chicago. August 6. 1908. Editor Moving Picture World: Dear Sir — Knowing that your valuable paper goes into the hands of everyone connected with the moving picture trade. I desire to announce through its pages that I have just completed the plans and specifications for an entirely new projecting machine. The features of my machine are the absence of a shutter and balance wheel; also a new movement of ray own invention which gives the film seven-eighths of exposure to oneeighth of movement and which does away with the present style of cams and Geneva movements and projects a rock steady and flickerless picture. I would like to hear from some capitalist who will aid me in placing this machine upon the market and will give details of the above mentioned features and other improvements to interested parties. Thanking you in advance. I am. Yours verv truly, CHARLES A. HALL. General Deliverv. Chicago. 111. A PERSONAL LETTER FROM FRED BECK. OF THE ELECTROGRAPH. Xew York. August 12. 100S. I take pleasure in notifying all who have dealt with the Eleetrograph Company, that I have -bought out all the rights of the above mentioned company, and in the future shall personally conduct the business. I am now in a position to satisfy all customers, as I have brought my concern into the very heart of Xew York's busy business section. 8 East Fourteenth street. With enlarged headquarters and better facilities, new and up-to-date methods, each department under the direct care of iMie who is thoroughly efficient and reliable, and finally under my own personal supervision my customers may be assured of courteous treatment and reliable service. \ splendidly equipped office, machine shop and salesrooms. covering an area of 2.500 square feet: experienced assistants in all the departments, gives me greater opportunity than ever to supply the trade with anything and everything in the moving picture line, besides furnishing and equipping first class vaudeville shows. Trusting that 1 may retain the good will and custom of all those who have conducted business with me in the past. ami soliciting from those who may be in need of such service as 1 am in a position to give, 1 remain. Very respectfullv vours. FRED BECK.