Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

36 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS WALTER BELASCO WITH NEW YORK MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION On a recent visit to San Francisco, Mr. Thomas H. Ince, general manager of the New York Motion Picture Corporation, secured a valuable acquisition to the motion picture stage in Walter Belasco. Manager Ince believes that directors are born and not made. Confidence in this belief emanates from the fact that temperament has made him one of the foremost directors of moving pictures to-day is an inheritance, as his parents were well known in their day as performers of merit. Mr. Ince, it will be remembered, recently staged "The Battle of Gettysburg." Having faith in this theory, Mr. Ince insists he will find lurking somewhere in the person of Mr. Belasco the latent germ of the born director that has made his brother, David, the recognized peer of all directors of the legitimate stage in America. Walter Belasco is now working diligently in the ranks of the Kay-Bee and Broncho. CHICAGO NOTES The Chicago attorney who so valiantly defended the more than threereel program for the minority exhibitors of this city, now comes forth with a circular letter to the buying exchanges of Chicago and other interests who are fostering the threereel movement, threatening suit under the Sherman act or some other law. However, regular attorneys say that he hasn't a leg to stand on. Motion pictures as a means of education is growing wider every day. The Ford automobile people have installed a complete motion picture outfit including a Bell & Howell camera and apparatus for the purpose of taking pictures of the making of their machines, which will be demonstrated in every Ford agency in the country. For this purpose they have purchased a large number of Pantoscope motion picture machines. One of the recent entrants into the feature film exchange business in Chicago is the Union Film Company located at 167 West Washington street, under the management of R. N. Rogers and W. R. Wreden. Mr. Rogers is well known in the feature film game in Chicago. Still the Standard Film Exchange remains unsold. Joe Hopp returned from New York City on Monday morning minus the startling news we expected to hear. However, another appointment is made for the latter part of this week, at which time it is expected the deal will be culminated. On Saturday morning, September 37th, Mr. S. S. Hutchinson, president of the American Film Manufacturing Company, returned to Chicago from a stay at Santa Barbara, Cal. Mr. Hutchinson states that the new plant and equipment is progressing in a satisfactory manner. The property holdings have been practically doubled and the construction of the buildings, with other improvements to be made on the property, will entail an expenditure close lo $100,000. The roads and walks have been graded and landscape gardeners have been at work for some time past, and the premises are rapidly assuming a delightfully artistic aspect. To set the palms it was necessary to blast deep holes, which were filled with the proper soil, into which were placed ten and fifteen-year-old trees. The tile used in some of the walks was quarried from the ground on the premises. The road-bed is of quartz assaying $2 to $5 per ton. No expense is being spared in the equipment for the taking of pictures, as also for the comforts of the employees, the number of which is steadily increasing. Mr. Byrnes, sales agent of the Pantoscope. advises us that Mr. .-K. A. Schmidt has been appointed exclusive agent of this machine for New York City. SUBSTITUTE WITH ll™"w°»Vf.o« ILLUSTRATED SONG PHOTOGRAPHY UNEXCELLED, POSING UNIQUE, COLORING GORGEOUS, FOR THAT ETERNALLY ALL ALIKE SPOT LIGHT SINGING. Write for Our 1914 List and New Rates CHHAGO SONG SLIDE EXCHANGE, 6th Floor Powers Buildino. Station E. 37 S WABASH AVENUE. CHirAGO. ILL. Ill wiiliiiK 1" ^ulvi TlisiTS jilcasi. im-iitiim ■■.Mll\l\(; I'lCTURK NKWS"