Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 23 monds the operator first learns -how a diamond glows in these rays and then compares the glow shown by the stones in question. Thus very definite results are possible ■with a large number of substances. reagents dissolve copper salts, whether affected or unaffected by light,, in about the same manner. The accompanying drawing represents a front eleva-' tion of a portion of a camera with an attachment applied thereto whereby the shutter may be actuated at a certain time desired by the operator, giving the latter an opportunity to pose for the picture before the actual exposure — the attachment being the invention of Gerfield A. Roberts, of Olathe, Kan.; Patent No. 1,069,293. 1 designates the front slide of the camera carrying lens tube 3; 3 the shutter lever adapted to be released by air directed under pressure into the cylinder 4, motion being transmitted from the piston 5 to the shutter mechanism, by means of lever 6. A casing 17 secured to slide 1. has a shaft journaled therein and projecting forwardly therefrom, there being a knob 19 upon the front end of the shaft whereby it can be readily rotated. The casing 17 encloses a clock spring escapement movement. A cord 28 is secured at one end to the knob IS and to the finger piece 3' by a hook 29. The shaft is rotated by means of knob 19 to wind the escapement spring and the connection 28 is unwrapped from the shaft and hook 29 placed in engagement with lever 3, it being understood that this lever is first set. As soon as the knob 19 is released, the connection 28 will bewound upon the shaft, slowly pulling downwardly on the lever 3 until the shutter mechanism is released. This mechanism can be so timed as to cause the actuation of the shutter after any desired period of time has elapsed, this adjustment being most readily effected by varying the length of the connection 28. Photographs on copper having a delicate daguerreotypic effect are the result of a recently developed process, in which a polished plate is exposed to chlorine gas for a few seconds to produce a sensitive layer which is exposed under a negative for ten minutes in sunlight, sufficient to produce the positi^■e, which may be then readily set by a toning-fixing bath containing but little hyposulphite but charged with silver salts. For this purpose a bath may be used that has been previously employed in papertoning; and the sensitive layer on the surface of the copper should be extremely thin, as a thick layer is found to be less sensitive. Heretofore attempts have been made to utilize the sensitiveness of cuprous salts to light, but the images could not be fixed, because ordinary We shall be pleased to answer pertinent questions propounded by readers of The Moving Picture News. "Les Miserables" in Nine Reels A great French company has produced Hugo's "Les Miserables,'' with every detail of the wonderful story. One need never have read the book to understand thoroughly and appreciate, it is said. A wonderful cast of French players posed before the cameras for the production. Henri Krauss, of the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt; Mile, Ventura, of the Theatre De rOdeon; La Petit Fromet, of the Theatre du Vaudeville; Mons. Etievant, of the Theatre de LaPorte and other stars from the most famous theatres in France will be seen in the principal parts. The stage mountings are natural. The scenes have been taken in the exact spots described by Hugo, when he wrote his novel in 1862. Some of the original places remain and in these places the scenes as told in the story have been enacted. There are nine reels in the production. This means more than 10,000 feet of imported film. The production will run two hours and a quarter, with the intermissions. The picture has not yet been seen in New York. Ripley D. Saunders, the eminent dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote a column in review of the picture, something that is absolutely unprecedented in that city so far as motion pictures go. — Birmingham (Ala.) News. William "Kinemacolor" Hickey, the "circulating medium" of the Allied Kinemacolor companies, is in New York after a flying trip of Europe. He brings with him the films of "William Tell," taken in the Swiss Alps; "Robin Hood, ' filmed in Sherwood Forest, England ; 'Mary Magdalene,", with Mme. Maeterlinck in the title role, and some marvelous Oriental scenes taken by a Kinemacolor expert who spent a year in China and Japan. The Selig Polyscope Company has purchased from Nell Shipman her prize-winning scenario, "Outwitted by Billy," which will have an early production. Iowa Falls, la. — C. C. Erie. Eldora, has purchased a lot in Brookings, S. D., and will commence in a few weeks the erection of a modern theatre building. THE ENGAGI.VC KID Lubin release. CAMPAIGNING WITH CUSTER Custer Blows Up the Ammunition Wagon Bison 2-Reel Drama.