The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 11 FLASHES FROM THE NEWS WEEKLIES MORE CAMERAMEN RUSHED TO MEXICAN BORDER. War Danger Induces Universal to Augment Forces Along the Rio Grande. ^^AR with Mexico seems imminent and the Universal Animated Weekly is making extensive preparations to cover every phase of the situation. No sooner had Gilbert Warrenton and Beverly Griffith reached Universal City from the border than news of the trapping of forty American soldiers was received at the New York offices of the Animated Weekly and Jack Cohn at once telegraphed Air. Griffith and his star cameraman. The Animated is the only news weekly blessed with a director and a cameraman at the front. Then Jack took the train Monday for Washington to see Secretary of War Baker. In New York the Animated cameramen were kept busy filming the rally of the National Guard to the flag. The "fighting Sixty-ninth" is seen marching up Fifth Avenue, trailed by its artillery; Jersey's soldiers were filmed on their way to their camp; the arrival of the New York National Guard regiments at Camp Whitman, Beekman, New York, and of cavalry at Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, and farewell scenes at various other cities throughout the country all make the 26th number of the Universal Animated Weekly an unusually patriotic one. Cameraman Double M. Fleming officiated at Camp Whitman. The force of Universal cameramen at the Mexican border will shortly be augmented by operators from Universal City, but the boys now on the job are not letting the grass get yellow under their feet. This week's issue shows scenes at Ciuadad Juarez, Mexico, nurses attending wounded soldiers, the reinforcement of American troops, preparation for attack and the ways and means used by the Universal cameramen to obtain their pictures from the recalcitrant natives. Uncle Sam is adopting every means to encourage recruiting and to bring the militia up to war strength before President Wilson is forced to call for volunteers. A short flash shows Edna Payne, the only girl recruiter for the navy, and the deadly guns which, placed on exhibition in New York, have done much to encourage recruiting. Secretary Daniels' visit to the navy's school for apprentice seamen at Lake Buff, 111.; a gigantic parade by Los Angeles patriots who want th" United States to prepare for war led by Marie Walcamp, the Universal star; the launching of a United States transport at the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia — all combine to make Issue 26 of the Animated Weekly a distinctively belligerent one. WRECK COSTS FIVE LIVES STEAMER "BEAR" HITS ROCK. JSSUE 26 of the Universal Animated Weekly contains some remarkable views of the unreck of the steamer "Bear" which recently ran ashore on Blunt's Reef, near Eureka, California. The steamer went off course in a dense fog off' Cape Mendocino and presented a picturesque sight as she pounded on the rocks not more than a hundred feet off shore. Five lives were lost in the disaster and the bodies of the unfortunate passengers were washed ashore while the cameramen were filming the wreck scenes. The Universal camerman, B. E. Moisant, had a difficult time reaching the scene of the wreck. It was necessary for him to make a three hundred mile run by automobile, twentytwo hours of steady driving, before he reached Eureka, near the scene of the disaster. Most of the distance was over mountain roads and especially bad ones at that. HARVARD AND YALE HOLD COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. ^LASS Day and Commencement exercises at the big American universities are always interesting and picturesque events. Issue 26 of the Universal Animated weekly shows the exercises held at the Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Mass., and also the Yale Commencement held at New Haven, Conn. At Harvard, 15,000 students and graduates hurled tons of confetti down upon 5,000 more Harvard men who took part in the stadium exercises. Thousands of America's fairest daughters witnessed the ceremonies, which were more elaborately staged than usual. SUFFRAGISTS AUTO TO COAST. J^EW YORK suffragists who started out several weeks ago on an auto trip through the Pacific coast finally arrived at San Francisco this week and were presented with the city's key by the mayor. All along the route the suffragists made impromptu speeches and added converts to the cause. The weather encountered was especially bad, and for almost a week at a time the club women were obliged to pilot their cars through seas of mud. TROOP TRANSPORT LAUNCHED. •THE launching of the United States transport "Henderson" at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, this week was attended by 30,000 people and partook of the nature of an athletic meet, a naval regatta, a preparedness field day and a popular seaside resort festival. The first scenes show Miss Genevieve Welling Taylor, the sponsor and grand daughter of General Archibald C. Henderson, after whom the ship was named Then follow a sham battle and the revue of the sailors, the launching of the "Henderson," the first transport ever built at League Island, and views of the crowd leaving the yard after the launching. COPYRIGHT ANIMATED VIEWS. 'J'HE Universal's Animated Weekly is obtaining such excellent and original photographs of late that Editor Jack Cohn is now taking care to have them copyrighted. While in Washington recently, Cameraman U. K. Whipple succeeded in getting such excellent pictures of President Wilson that Cohn decided to have them protected by copyrightLater, he sent Whipple to Oyster Bay, where Roosevelt posed especially for the Animated Weekly. Finding that some of these pictures were being stolen, Cohn resolved to put an end to it by copyrighting all the pictures which were taken at the Republican Convention at Chicago, and all others taken during the politocal campaign. During the first convention, the Animated Weekly covered the proceedings from every angle and had a moving picture camera continuously during the sessions. With this exclusive privilege, the Animated Weekly obtained the best pictures, and were sho\\Ti in the Strand, Rialto, Broadway and other leading metropolitan theatres. When the Republican candidate, Charles E. Hughes, came to New York, after nomination, Cameraman Whipple took a series of pictures of him on the roof of the Hotel Astor. These were admitted to be the best pictures ever taken of the noted jurist and the New York Sun, Press and several Sunday papers eagerly sought them and used them In their publications. In fact, the majority of pictures which have appeared in the New York papers of Mr. Hughes were those taken by Cameraman Whipple. Editor Cohn presented the candidate with a set of these pictures, and sent another set to Washington. {