Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1922)

GOSSIP-GATHERING on FILM BOULEVARD ANNOUNCEMENT is made of a new non-theatrical film distributing organization, to be known as Temple Pictures, Inc. The organization's personnel includes an unusual group of men. Mr. John Rudin, president of the King, Richardson Company, Chicago, is president of the new concern; Dr. J. K. Shields, producer of "The Stream of Life" and "A Maker of Men," is vicepresident ; Dr. Howard H. Russell, founder of the Anti-Saloon League, is secretary ; and the treasurer is Mr. Charles E. Coleman, a Chicago banker. The other member of the board of directors is Judge Benjamin Franklin Jones, of Newark, N. J. . The executive headquarters of Temple Pictures, Inc., is at 2301 Prairie Avenue, Chicago. The corporation intends to open branches at various strategic points throughout the country. Two branch offices are already open — the Chicago branch, at 5 N. LaSalle Street, in charge of Mr. Bertram Willoughby, and the New York branch, at 46 W. 24th Street, under the supervision of W. H. Shields, son of Dr. Shields. The organization has the exclusive distribution of "The Stream of Life" and "A Maker of Men," as well as of any other pictures produced later by the Plymouth Film Corporation, and additional religious and educational material of special worth is being secured as rapidly .as possible. % 3(t-. S)C >£ $ 4s. 9|S Sjt Bosworth, DeFrenes & Felton, of Wilkesbarre, have recently produced for the Eastman Kodak Company an extremely interesting film entitled "A Trip Through Filmland." In this picture the optience is allowed to trace the manufacture of film from the growing of the cotton to the film's use in the motion-picture studio. The film gives an excellent idea of the great Eastman plant at Kodak Park, Rochester, and has been highly praised by metropolitan papers after its showing at large theatres in New York. The Classic Features Film Co., 51 E. 42d Street, New York City, has made arrangements with several producers of exceptional motion pictures to reissue these subjects for the non-theatrical field. The company is making every effort to secure pictures based upon famous masterpieces, and these are to be released by the outright sale of prints to schools, colleges, and non-theatrical exchanges. The concern does not rent films, but acts only as a clearing-house for films of merit. ■f *K * TP •P * * * Withington-Hun'ting, Inc., 501 Fifth Avenue, New York City, announces that it is now distributing its perfected product, the Beacon projector. This projector comes in two styles, for standard and forsafety standard film. The manufacturers claim that the Beacon is The illustration is of the Repeatoscope, the non-rewinding instrument just perfected by Charles F. Herm, 220 W. 42d. Street, New extremely simple, compact, and quiet, and that it can be used with a throw of 90 feet. The illustration gives an idea of the mechanical arrangement of this projector. York City. The whole machine is fastened to the top of the projector in the same position as, and taking the position of, the top magazine. The film goes from the top sprocket of the Repeatoscope to the top sprocket of the projector, and is then threaded as usual. But instead of going to the takeup the film is threaded on the bottom sprocket of the Repeatoscope, cemented to the tail of the film, and from there taken up by the revolving roll of film, in position to be passed back through the projector. Mr. Herm believes that his invention, aside from its theatrical value, will be greatly in demand for school projection and for sales and other industrial purposes. The Geographic Film Company, 138 W. 7th Street, Cincinnati, announces that its mammoth production — the complete geographical history of the Bible — is practically ready for distribution. The course itself consists of about 48,000 feet of material, divided into the following programs : Bethlehem, Southern Judea, and Egypt ; Northern Judea and the Maritime Plain ; Jericho and the Jordan ; Jerusalem ; Shiloh, Samaria, and Galilee ; and Damascus, Lebanon, and Mt. Carmel. Aside from this course, special arrangements of the material have been developed, on such subjects as temples and the tabernacle. It was stated that, although final plans for distribution had not been selected, probably one well-known, respected person in each community would be chosen to give every church in that community an opportunity to put this invaluable material before its people, no matter whether or not the church happened to own a projection machine. •V *P t* «B V -F t *P "General Science Visualized," a book on the correlation of films with science courses, has been brought out by the United Projector & Film Corporation, 69 W. Mohawk Street, Buffalo. The material has been compiled by J. H. Wilson, formerly in charge of visual instruction in the Detroit public schools. Under each subject are given : Names of films for the basic course, with their numbers in the catalogue of the United Projector & Film Corporation (all films discussed are safety standard) ; and names of films for the supplementary course, with catalogue numbers. Then, under a new heading, are given, for each subject, names of the basic films, the pur 24