Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS i5 KINEMACOLOR The Kinemacolor Company of America has recently introduced a device which is the last step in putting the projection of its pictures on a "foolproof" basis. A short while ago the new improved filter came out and now, after many exhaustive experiments, comes the "color corrector" attachment, which instantly corrects the color of the picture being projected in event of a new operator having threaded the film up wrong or making an improper joint and so causing an entire reversal of the color scheme. This reverse color has been a frequent occurrence with inexperienced operators, but the new device will place any operator in the experienced class. Formerly correcting this "off color" necessitated stopping the machine and changing the position of the film, which is now done by pressing a little lever and instantly the desired effect on the screen is obtained without any unnecessary delay. That the "Spirit of '76" has not died was proved at Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street Theatre when "Nathan Hale" was reincarnated in Kinemacolor. During the scene where the Continental troops parade, headed by a fife and drum corps as in Willard's famous painting, the theatre orchestra played patriotic airs, and the whole audience arose and cheered heartily. Douglas Cooper celebrated his taking charge of the Canadian Kinemacolor offices by signing contracts for exclusive service with the Imperial Theatre, Montreal, and the new house in St. Johns, N. B., to open on July 1st. RELIANCE CHATTER Prize bulldogs captured the studio by storm on Friday. Paul Scardon entered seven of his best breed of English bulls in the show staged for the coming three-reel feature, "The Tangled Web," in which Rosemary Theby will make her first appearance for the Reliance, and even Louis, the office boy, has become a dog enthusiast. The ball team is busy getting ready for a game with Eclair on Saturday at Lenox Oval. The Lubin game, which was swamped by a cloudburst, will be played in Philadelphia on July 5th. A new interpretation of "The Rosary,'' which has been occupying Oscar Apfel's attention, promises to be of more than passing interest, especially as Forrest Halsey is responsible for the scenario. % ^ ^ % Larry McGill has just returned from a short trip to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, which he calls "The Switzerland of America." Larry found some beautiful scenery and succeeded in getting a coal mine explosion that was realistic enough even to satisfy his. leading man, Alan Hale. Alan says that coal mining never did appeal to him, anyway, and blasting always made him very nervous. * * * * Edgar Lewis brought his company home from their trip to Maine all enthusiastic about Rodman Law's plunge over the Stillwater Falls. Law made the dash over the falls in an open boat and is the only man who ever performed that feat. The spectacle is part of a coming Reliance drama, and was caught by three cameras placed at entirely different angles. * * * * Manager J. V. Ritchey succeeded in obtaining the promise of Frederick S. Isham, the well-known novelist, to write a story especially for Reliance production. His novel, "Half a Chance," is the Reliance release of June 14th. "WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY?" MOST EVERYTHING! And now she's been novelized. These stories, produced by the Edison Company in pictures and by The Ladies' World in short-story form, have been novelized by Robert Carlton Brown, whose new detective novel, "The Remarkable Adventures of Christopher Poe," is to be brought out this Fall by F. G. Browne & Co., of Chicago. "THE DEATH KNELL" Story of Sombre Power "Who shall step aside?" is the vital question which throbs throughout the active feet of "The Death Knell." How a man 'tells his beloved nephew that for a year only does he ask life and love, that then the nephew may return to find funereal black on the doorknob and the widow's love — love greater than her grief — love, not for the dead but love for the living. Awful is the plight when she who is married to him believed to be upon the eternal brink, but which brink, by a strange vicissitude, ever recedes and the vista of the years of health disappears only into the far dimness of a distant horizon. She had been betrothed to the nephew when a proposal of marriage from the wealthy uncle who purchased her parental home from her bankrupt father came to stem the tide of their fortunes. A terrible moment it is when the passions and jealousies of the husband who would not die is aroused by the obvious yearnings of the young folk toward each other; dra matic his pursuit of the nephew as the latter skulks about the uncle's castle in the endeavor to surreptitiously keep his tryst with his uncle's wife. The spectator can feel the crimson flood thrill his cheek in the scene wherein the woman and the nephew each plead for the privilege of blotting out. their respective lives in order that the future and destiny of the other may not be sacrificed, the moment when at the height of this significantly tragic dispute, the husband rushes in, realizes the situation, and a moment later reels back lifeless through the clinging velvet of the curtains, no longer the man who would not die, but the man who would die. HER SUPREME SACRIFICE Warner's Feature Film Company have just released "Her Supreme Sacrifice," a dramatic love story in three reels, made by the Pyramid Film Company of New York. Thrill follows thrill with unusual rapidity throughout the entire production. The quarry scene, where a tremendous blast is set off, resulting almost fatally to the principal in the play; the ballroom scenes with "tango" dancing by professional cabaret dancers, and the picturesque country scenes, have never been equalled in any motion picture. The photography is absolutely perfect in every scene. Mary Manson, a beautiful country girl, loves, and is loved by John Bennet, the foreman of the Stony Ridge Quarry. Against the will of Mary's mother, the two are betrothed. Courtleigh, a millionaire's son, buys the Manson property for a fabulous sum. The remainder of the story deals with the schemings of Mary's ambitious mother to match her with Courtleigh against her wishes. How John, who has been injured in an accident at the quarry, finally wins his boyhood sweetheart provides a story of unusual sweetness and interest.