Moving Picture Age (Nov-Dec 1919)

42 MOVING PICTURE AGE What the Plymouth C ongregational Church (Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis) Thinks of the New Premier Pathescope Flickerless, "Safety Standard" Motion Picture Projector Machine and Films inspected by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., and labeled: "Enclosing Booth Not Required." No licensed operator, nor insurance restrictions. ippmouti) Pi&le fecfjool ORANGE STREET JBtooblpn, B. §.. Sept 26"1919. The Pathescope Co., Of America, Inc. 35 West 42" St., Manhattan. Gentlemen; It is now 3 months since we installed your Pathescope Moving Picture machine in our Sunday School and the results have been most gratifying. We have been successful in keeping our School open all Summer with . a good attendance and now in addition to our regular Sunday session we are using the machine to give a "Show" in the middle of the week, inviting the children of the Ooramunity to join us and teaching religion and patriotism through the medium of the ear and »ye» These meetings are highly successful, thanks to your machine and we hope before long all the Sunday Sohoola of the Country will have a Pathescope as part of their regular equipment. We heartily recommend your machine to all interested in Educational and Religious work. Plymouth Sunday School. THE NEW PREMIER PATHESCOPE Greater illumination guaranteed than obtainable with any other Portable Projector and surpassed only by the arc. THE PATHESCOPE CO. OF AMERICA, Inc. Suite 180S, Aeolian Hall NEW YORK Agencies and Service Stations in Principal Cities. Portable Projectoscope Has Many Improvements The American Projectoscope, a portable moving picture projector, taking standard width film in thousand-foot units, has won many friends among teachers and church heads as well as in industrial fields. This machine is of the suitcase type. The Projectoscope may he operated from any electric light socket by the most inexperienced and it projects with unusual brilliance. Just set it down — turn on the current — and watch the picture. All as compact and light as a suitcase; no pro jecting knobs, cranks or lenses to bother or get knocked off, and everything goes into the one case. The Projectoscope operates on either alternating or direct current from any electric light socket. Pictures may be run either way, at will. Simply reverse the motor and repeat any portion desired. This feature is especially valuable to a salesman, or in a lecture room, as it permits returning to any point of especial interest, to explain in more detail, without the necessity of rewinding the whole film over again. The machine may be stopped for a few moments at any picture for a detailed study. This combines the moving picture and stereopticon feature in one machine. The lamp construction gives a cool but strong light. The whole machine is fireproof and foolproof, according to the makers. The arrangement of the working parts which permits of running the picture backward makes a rewind apparatus unnecessary. For full information concerning this projector, address the Art Film Studios, 1228 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. De Vry Exhibit at the Annual Safety Congress One of the exhibits at the Eighth Annual Safety Congress of the National Safety Council that attracted considerable attention was that of the DeVry Corporation of Chicago. The DeVry portable projector, demonstrated at this exhibition, is already being used for . safety-first propaganda work to a considerable extent. An interesting feature of this exhibit was that the picture — a safety-first subject — was projected in a brightly illuminated room. This is an unusually severe test to impose on a projector, as the illumination in the orojector must combat and overcome that of the room. The DeVry acquits itself well, provision having been made in the designing of its optical unit to obtain a twelvefoot picture in a darkened room. In safety-first work, the projector is taken right into the shop, generally during the noon hour. It is connected to the most convenient incandescent fixture, and while the employees are watching the picture — many eating their lunches at the same time — the advantages of safety-first measures are indelibly impressed upon them. "Sermonettes" to Be Given in Motion Picture Film A new idea for pictures conceived by H. A. Spanuth, president of the Commonwealth Pictures Corporation, Chicago, is to be known as "Spanuth's Sermonettes." It is not the intention to "preach" in these sermonettes, Mr. Spanuth states. They are to offer spiritual inspiration from the point of view of a broad understanding and an appreciative sympathy. While the Bible is referred to, their resources are the whole field of human thought and aspiration. The theme of the first "Sermonette" will be the Christmas story — the birth of Jesus the Christ child. These novelty films will run about 600 feet, and be ready for release by December 1, and after that date one Sermonette will be released each week. "We arc endeavoring to make these films as beautiful as themessage they carry," Mr. Spanuth said. "The photography will be unexcelled, and the production of the best. They are entirely non-sectarian, cannot offend any religion or creed, and will help solve the Sunday screen problem."