Moving Picture News (Jul-Dec 1912)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 27 As this last vision of the days of long ago fades away. Ygnacio awakens in the land from whence no traveler e'er returns. BIOGRAPH IN THE NORTH WOODS (Sept. 2).— A trapper, confident of the safety of his wife and child in the boundless woods while he is awav on his trip to the trading post, a day's iournev. leaves for that place to dispose of the pelts he has secured. He has just departed when an adventurous Frenchman and his guide saunter through the Avoods in search of game. From a distance the adventurer sees the' trapper's wife place her bag of savings m its hiding place. At once his cupidity is aroused, for his own purse is sadly depleted, and he is determined to get the bag of money, which purpose seems easy to accomplish. He finds, however, that the woman is made of stouter stuff than the ordinary female of the species and he not only fails but suffers for his attempted villainy. GETTING RID OF TROUBLE (Sept. 5). — The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle. A cook must be engaged and they go to the employment office to get one. It would spoil the fun to describe her — suffice to sav trouble begins. They try to ''fire" her, but she refuses. More trouble comes in the person of a persistent bill collector. Uncle devises a great scheme. He asks the cook, who is eager for a fight, to chase the collector from the doorstep and while they are struggling outside he telephones to the police station. It proved a master stroke. On the same reel: HE MUST HAVE A -WIFE.— Harry expected to come in for a portion of his uncle's estate, but didn't figure that he would get his share before his worthy relative's demise. The uncle, however, being an eccentric individual, decides to divide his estate while he is al'.ve so as to avoid misunderstandings. Harry's share is $25,000, but the condition is that he is happily married, otherwise he doesn't get a penny. He has only a couple of hours in which to comply with the condition. Well, he gets his share, but, oh, what a struggle! This substance, again thinned with water, is run onto the paper machine, after which it passes through forty-two hot cylinders to dry. Now it is finished paper and is rolled into enormovis rolls, some of them weighing 4,000 pounds. The real manufacturing operation being over, we visit the store room, the shipping room, the laboratory where pulp specimens are tested and are finally shown a very beautiful view of the mill itself on the water front. THE STRANGER AND THE TAXICAB (Sept. 11). — True love never runs smooth as the saying goes, and this is the case with Harry and his sweetheart. Rose. The trouble begins when he declines to take Rose to a ball and she decides to go alone. The night of the ball he fancies she may be dancing w-ith some unknown rival and determines to attend the ball in order to investigate his suspicions. Sure enough, he finds her accompanied by a most attentive young man. Harry becomes irsmely jealous, the supposed rival, however, being only Rose's brother. home on a visit, and unknown to Harry. Rose, noticing Harry's jealousy, tantalizes him by keeping up the deception and concealing her brother's identity. Rose and her brother decide to go home in a taxi and Harry, who has been planning revenge, now sees an opportunity of carrying out his plans by bribing the chauffeur to change places with him and thus enable him to drive to some lonely spot and administer a sound thrashing to his hated rival. Without turning to look at his passengers Harry drives oft' at a furious rate of speed, and when at last they Halt Harry is astounded to discovers that his passengers are Rose's parents instead of Rose and his rival. The old folks indignantly refuse to ride any further with him and walk home. Meanwhile Rose and her brother start for home in another automobile, which later breaks down. Harry, by chance, happens to come across them and offers to tow them home where, upon arrival, he recognizes them, but they enter the house before he can administer the intended thrashing. Foiled again! The following day the matter is cleared up by a note from Rose which reads: "Dear EDISON THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER, MAINE (Sept. 10).— Following "Winter Logging in Maine" and "Spring Log Driving" we now take up the manufacture of paper, this completing the series which started in mid-winter in the dense snowcovered forests and ends with the shipment of finished paper ready for use. The present film is not, however, dependent upon its predecessors for its interest in any way. It is complete in itself and is an industrial of real interest from start to finish. We first see the delivery of the logs to the mill after their journey of eighty miles down the river. They are stacked in enormous piles, a three months' supply looking as though it would furnish paper for years to come. One by one they are taken into the mill, where they start on their trip, an eventful one. First with huge circular saw-s they are cut into lengths convenient tn handle, then a machine shaves off the bark, after which a beaklike device cuts them into small blocks. Again they are cut up. this time into chips, these traveling into huge "digesters." where they are cooked for eighteen hours under steam pressure and with acid, to separate the fibre and remove the rosin. Thus ths fluid pulp is formed. This is carried onto cylinders coming off in large sheets. Split into smaller sheets, t'.iis is stored in piles and the first part of the operation is completed. The sheets of pulp go into the beater room, where they are beaten up with water until it becomes like mush.