Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Moving Picture News Published by EXHIBITORS' TIMES, Inc. Business Offices 220 West 42nd Street, New York City Publication Offices 30 West 13th Street, New York City Telephone Bryant 7650. Chicago Office 604 Schiller Building; WILLIAM A. JOHNSTON EDITORS THOMAS BEDDING, JOHN M. BKADLET ADVERTISING MANAGER JAMES F. FAIRMAN ASSISTANT MANAGER WILLIAM M. PETINGALE WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE C. J. VER HALEN Subscription $2.00 per year, postpaid in the United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Porta Rico and the Philippine Islands. Canada and Foreign f2.60 per year. Advertising Rate Card will be sent on application. Entered as Second-class '52 matter in the New York Post-Office. Vol. VIII September 27, 1913 No. 13 This publication is owned and published by Exhibitors' Times, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. The oiHces and principal place of business are at 220 West i2nd Street, New York City. President, V/m. A. Johnston; Vice-President, Henry F. Sewall ; Sec'y, E. Kendall Gillette; Treas., Wentworth Tucker. The address of the officers is the office of the publication. 15 motion pictures over the wire as one sends an ordinary telegraphic or telephonic message has the possibility of being transcended in practical interest by an even greater advance, namely, the transmission of motion pictures by wireless. Not to anticipate the interesting details with which Mr. Jenkins has supplied us, we go so far as to say that, in our opinion, the time is not far off when this theoretical marvel will be made a practical accomplishment Within the memory of living people, such modern utilities as telegraphic and telephonic messages were considered not merely impracticable, but impossible. Only a few years ago the idea that photographs could be sent by wire wa.5 considered in the nature of a wild dream, and yet as we have pointed out already, thanks to the enterprise of Mr. William Randolph Hearst, photographs have been sent by cable from New York to London. And now, writing in the popular and not the strictly scientific sense, it is just as feasible for motion pictures to be sent by wire as it is for ordinary still photographs. Even more so, it is just as feasible for motion pictures to be sent by wireless as it is for simple written messages to be so sent. We refer the reader, however, to Mr. Jenkins' own description of his method which will be printed in our pages next week. ANNOUNCEMENT The cover of this first combined issue of the Exhibitors' Times and Moving Picture News is merely a temporary substitute for an entirely different cover which will announce the new name of the merged publications. IMPORTANT The film reviews to which the readers of the Moving Picture News are accustomed have only been temporarily discontinued in this combined issue. They will shortly be resumed and handled in a new way which the editors feel sure will prove of even more interest and practical value. MOTION PICTURES BY WIRELESS WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES OF MOTION PICTURE PROGRESS T N the next number of the Exhibitors' ' Times, we will print an article of transcendent interest upon a theme with which we dealt in the second issue of the paper. This article was headed the "Transmission of Motion Pictures by Wire." A method of accomplishing this is attributed to Mr. C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Jenkins has been good enough to give us a special and exclusive interview in which he outlines a method whereby the sending of FOR THE CHILDREN T N a recent number of this publication, we printed an article by Judge Willis Brown in which his honor pleaded for the preparation of motion pictures devoid of unnecessary sensationalism — those undesirable features in films which we have repeatedly denounced in these pages ; horrors for horror's sake. It is not necessary to be more specific now. Everybody knows what we mean. This excellent article by Judge Brown has attracted great attention. It was so well reasoned. And then again the Judge himself is well known for his efforts on behalf of educational and corrective work against neglected children. He writes and acts with knowledge, authority and sympathy. As we constantly point out, the greater majority of patrons of motion picture theatres are women and children. They it is who provide the nickels and dimes which support the theatres — not merely the theatres, but the entire motion picture industry. And yet, notwithstanding this important fact, few manufacturers take the trouble to assure the suitability of their films to a majority of motion picture theatregoers. The mere men in this matter are in a pitiable minority. Again we say it is the women and children who count. In the ordinary theatre it is the women who are the chief patrons of the ticket office. If a play gets the suffrages of the fair sex, it is a success. If it does not please the women, men are powerless to make it a success.