The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1918)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 15 First X Ray Moving Pictures Special gCREEN MAGAZINE No. 55, which will be seen at the Theatre on , contains one of the most unusual subjects ever filmed by the motion picture camera. It not only is unusual to the rank and file of photoplay enthusiasts who attend the Theatre six nights a week, but it is absorbingly interesting to every physician. The Screen Magazine, in co-operation with Dr. E. L. Crusius of the New York X-Ray Laboratories, has been engaged for almost a year in experiments which had for their object the making of a moving picture of the movement of human joints by X-Ray. So successful have these experiments been that the wonderful pictures in Screen Magazine No. 55 are the result. They are positively startling, and are the most positive addition to medical photography since the invention and application of X-Ray itself. Unusually intricate and ingenious machinery for the taking of these pictures was developed by Dr. Crusius, and the results are startlingly contrasted. First the picture of the knee or the ankle or the elbow of the subject is taken without X-Rays, showing the free movement of the joint. Then the X-Ray is applied, and the joint is moved in exactly the same manner, only in the second picture the flesh is stripped from the bones, as it were, for the first time. First the knee, then the elbow, then the ankle, and then the human jaw are subpected to the X-Ray moving picture camera, and all are fully exploited before the camera. The New York Times, in its edition of January 7th, has this to say of the X-Ray movies: "Dr. E. L. Crusius of the New York X-Ray Laboratories at 500 Fifth Avenue announced last night that in co-operation with the Universal Film Manufacturing Company he had pei-fected a system for taking X-Ray moving pictures which is expected to be of great service in treating injuries to the joints. A private exhibition for physicians and surgeons will be held in a week, after which Dr. Crusius will lecture and demonstrate the process. "Among the pictures taken thus far are illustrations of the movements of the knee, ankle, and elbow. Dr. Crusius says that the photographs show not only the bones, but the muscles, and that by moving a joint that has been injured and photograph IF you're down in the dumps and your brain feels tight, why don't you see 6i WILD WOMEN TO-NIGHT (Theatre name here) ing the action of muscles and movements of bones it will be possible to find out just what parts have been injured and the treatment required." FINLEY NATURE PICTURES. No. 1— Full Reel. Wild Birds and Animals at Home. Photographed Under Direction of Wni. L. Finley of Oregon Fish and Game Commission. "Wild Birds and Animals at Home," is the subject of the first installment of the Finley Nature Pictures, released in one-reel specials, and taken under the direction of Wm. L. Finley of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission. Mr. and Mrs. Bob White making their home at the foot of a tombstone, according to the new law which makes every cemetery a refuge for birds, are shown first. A wild duck home in the marsh comes next, with the Cinnamon Teal and her nest. The Hawk, the hunter of the bird world, is presented in intimate views, with the Great Homed Owl, and his cousin, the Snowy Owl, to follow. The White-footed Mouse, upon which Mr. Bam Owl loves to feed, is seen trying to escape his fate. The Wood Pussy, or Skunk, runs to his home, and the Raccoon is seen in his favorite perch, an old tree. The Weasel, the Kangaroo Rat, and a baby Jack Rabbit, just one day old, follow. Then we see a Coyote den, with a litter of pups, a few weeks old. FINLEY NATURE SERIES. NO. 2. "TAMING WILD BIRDS" (Split Reel), by William L. Finley, of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission. ■pHIS interesting reel of nature study stai-ts with a little girl beating a hen with chickens, and from that develops into the appreciation and taming of wild birds. The feathered subjects of the reel are the bluebird and the wren, which eats thousands of insects. The various methtods of approach of these birds, and the things which can be done with them by a person who gets to know them and acquires their confidence, are very interestingly portrayed. AND "GLIMPSES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK." Yosemite Falls is a scenic rush of water falling 2526 feet. It was photographed for glimpses of the Yellowstone National Park during the season of melting snows, when its beauty and grandeur are at their height.