Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1912)

22 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS no doubt endorse Teddy's verdict. These motion pictures photographed in nature's own colors not only are a wonderful factor in education, but are a delight to the mind and eye of an}^ man or woman with a particle of artistic appreciation in the soul. In fidelity to nature, in elusive beauty of tint, in delicacy and brilliance of color these pictures are exceeded only by nature in her native haunts. Although the kinemacolor process is but two years old, the English syndicate owning it now has over two million dollars invested in the industry and its men are scouring the uttermost parts of the earth to secure views. Among the pictures shown in Los Angeles recently were some views of the Canary Islands, among them one of the cave dwellers of Italia, a part of the islands. The existence of such a people is unsuspected by a large part of the world, yet the kinemacolor people hunted them out and the screen showed faithfully to the audience the conditions of their life. To visit a beautiful art gallery is beyond the means of thousands of people who are hungry for beauty, but here is beauty, bewildering and abundant, brought to your very door, and at a price within reach of the poorest. It's a great world. This is only one of the many articles that apper in the papers and the people are beginning to realize the big educational value in these films. So if you believe in giving credit where credit is due the answer is kinemacolor. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE INVENTORS' GUILD, HELD AT NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 24, 1911 To the Honorable William H. Taft, President of the United States: Whereas : The Constitution of the United States provides : "The Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." And^ Whereas : This Constitutional provision was intended to obtain for the benefit of the Nation the publication of every new and useful invention in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it pertains to make, construct, compound or use the invention, after the limited time for which the exclusive right is secured to the inventor by patent; and thereby to secure for the Nation the great benefit which, all experience shows, results to a Nation from publishing inventions, in contradistinction to following a policy which would tend to encourage trade secrets, monopoly, and trade combinations, which minimize the value of inventions to the Nation ; AnDj Whereas : A patent is in effect a contract between the Government and the inventor by which the Government, in consideration of the right to publish the invention for the benefit of the Nation, agrees that in return for his satisfactory disclosures of his new and useful invention under reasonable conditions, to be determined bv the Government, it will secure the inventor for a limited time in the exclusive right to his new and useful invention. And, Whereas : An inventor, after having performed his part of the contract by having made proper disclosure of a new and useful invention to the United States Government officials, is frequently subjected to unreasonable delay, expense, and injustice before obtaining his patent, and after having obtained his patent is not equitably secured in his exclusive right as the Constitution intended that he should be secured in return for his disclosure in good faith of his new and useful invention; and as a consequence of this unfair treatment of inventor patentees, the United States is not obtaining, in the degree that it should, the National benefit of the best inventive work of its many able inventors. And, Whereas : The United States Patent System has been evolved to its present condition without prooer consideration of the rights of the Nation, and of the inventors, who are the two real parties at interest, but on the contrary has been developed to its present condition almost entirely as the result of suggestion from oersons who do not occupy the position of one of the parties to the contract which every patent represents ; and who do not suffer damage from the delays, complications, injustice and expense characteristic of the United States Patent System and the United States Courts which hear patent causes ; said damage being borne principally but indirectly by the Nation and to a lesser degree, but indirectly, by the inventor-patentees. And, Whereas : It is a well-known fact that modern trade combinations tend strongly toward constancy of processes and products, and by their very nature are opposed to new processes and new products originated by independent inventors, and hence tend to restrain competition in the development and sale of patents and patent rights ; and consequently tend to discourage independent inventive thought, to the great detriment of the Nation, and with injustice to inventors whom the Constitution especially intended to encourage and protect in their rights. And, Whereas : Under existing methods of trying patent causes, an inventor-patentee of average means could not, at his own expense, carry to a conclusion an average patent litigation against a wealthy opponent, and therefore a few wealthy concerns usually acquire nearly all important patents in their field, to the great damage of the Nation because of the restraint of competition and because of the resulting tendency of such inventors to seek protection for their inventions by trade secrets or else to cease inventive work. And, Whereas : Efficient protection by patent of new and useful inventions would offer to the average American Manufacturer one of the best methods of meeting foreign competition and would, in addition, improve quality, reduce first cost, and stimulate fair competition, with resulting benefit to the entire Nation. Resolved : The inventors Guild, composed exclusively of independent and experienced inventor-patentees, does hereby respectfully ask the attention of the President of the United States to the urgent need of reforms in the Patent office, and also in the Courts which hear and decide Patent causes ; and hereby requests the President to recommend to Congress the advisability of appointing a Committee to confer with experienced and representative inventors with the object of promptly accomplishing such reforms as will result in more effectively carrying out the intention of the Constitution ; and to supplement such recommendations by such executive action as in his judgment seems likely to assist in accomplishing the needed reforms. Respectfully submitted, INVENTORS' GUILD, By Ralph D. Mershon, President. Minneapolis, Minn. — The Gem Theatre here was destroyed by fire at a loss of $10,000. Valley City, N. Dak. — A new moving picture and vaudeville theater is to be erected here. "«--yt*-..t«5i» THE SAVOY THEATRE, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Showing the splendid advertising and featuring of Bison films.