The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 23 Current Events Carl Laemmle, 1600 Broadway, N. Y. Congratulations. Linking press and screen will link North and South and East and West. . ' EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, Gov. of Maryland. Carl Laemmle, 1600 Broadway, N. Y. To, consider every public question from every point of view by means of screening newspaper cartoons is an idea of such magnitude as to challenge the interest of all. Congratulations. REED SMOOT, United States Senator. Carl Laemmle, 1600 Broadway, N. Y. Of the many notable achievements of the screen the joining of forces with the largest newspapers in every city will mark a Red Letter Day in the Cinema Calender. JAMES H. BRADY, United States Senator. Carl Laemmle, 1600 Broadway, N. Y. Interest of all thinking men challenged by the plan to publish on the screen before literally millions the newspaper cartoons that have proved effective. May I wish success and extend my warmest felicitations. CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of the House. Among the leading newspapers whose cartoons will be re-created for Universal Current Events may be mentioned : The Albany Knickerbocker Press, The Albany Journal, The Atlanta Journal, The Atlanta Georgian, The Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Sunday American, The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore American, The Birmingham Age-Herald, The Boston Herald, The Boston Journal, The Boston Daily Advertiser, The Boston Evening Record, The Brooklyn Eagle, The Buffalo News, The Chicago Daily News, The Cincinnati Post. The Cleveland News, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Columbus Citizen, The Ohio State Journal, The Columbus Evening Dispatch, The Dallas News, The Denver Rocky Mountain News, The Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Morning Tribune, The Louisville Times, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Milwaukee Sentinel, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The New Orleans Item, The Newark Evening News, The New York Herald, The New York Evening: Mail, The Omaha Bee, The Philadelphia Record, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, The Philadelphia Public Ledger, The Philadelphia Press, The Philadelphia North American, The Pittsburgh Press, The St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The St. Ap :ar to •More :o. n co ar ; wri liddle Bur n, ows iction tount ilch Is to n Maf 3olt, her diss I the I :-mar se . Ic| porte a Bi Henrjl ting ?s da s-Moq an ex 'PEA! ro tndio f<* ing po n«r admii jfd A. Be nager_ Re ows j Irs est cm 'er is eqjL Uly Kherm the it as :an be Mi. bat si In s. cU Be. l^t SCT me ' mans *r 5 writ Id what j adou ction ;e of i age «b J the ol Corp thatl tud evei <akiif THE DRAMATIC MIRROR WHAT THEY STAND FOR (Every prominent man in the film industry stands for certain things which vitally concern the business— certain particular features which have been developed to such an extent that they have become part and parcel thereof. It if The Hiebob's purpose, each week, to give in compact form an account of what some one prominent man has done in an especial way for the advancement of motion pictures.— Editor.) CAUL LAEMMLE WITH the independ »nce ' of pbotop 1 a y producers, if exhibitors, of everyone, in fact, at all concerned in the motion picture business, becoming more and more a recognized fact, the days of the fight for liberty are seldom recalled. Wealth and intrenched power were on one side ; determination and fighting spirit on the other, and for several years it was a hard battle, terminating In a truce that broke the domination of the greatest combine the industry has ever known. Carl Laemmle, more, perhaps, tlan any other individual, stood for independence^— the rights of the small manufacturer with a limited capital and un» supported by the all-powerful combine, to make pictures and show them without interference. Mr. Laemmle started In an unpretentious way to found a profitable business, and through frequent storms that disrupted partnerships and cleared the way for new alliances, has become the guiding influence in one of the strongest organizations in the industry. First of all, Mr. Laemmle stands for the spirit of liberty, and following that, as president of the Universal Company, he represents the strength of the short program picture for the small exhibitor companies sprang, he naturally took a leading part in the struggle to withstand the Motion Picture Patents C o m pany. To Mr. Laemmle belongs the distinction of being the first man to be enjoined from using an Edison camera. This was in 1910, when, in order to continue' making pictures, it bec a m e necessary to move the com pany to Cuba. During tyh e y»ars following, Mr Laemmle and his associates, among them C. A. Bowman, P. A. Powers and W. H. Swanson, steadily increased their influence, and were a potent factor long before the so-called trust had been shorn of its power by the Supreme Court decision. Speaking confidently of the permanent usefulness of the program picture, Mr. Laemmle said that two-thirds of the resources of Universal are being devoted to the manufacture df~ short pictures, for which there is a steady demand, especially from exhibitors • in small towns. He regards tie state rights method of distribution as admirable for features of extraordinary quality, permitting of exceptional advertising, but feels that no company can feel confident of producing such pictures week after week. The special war tax on producers and exhibitors he considers a serious bur As the first president of the Motion den that may necessitate a readjustment Picture Distributing and Sales Company, in admission prices at many theaters, out of which the Universal and Mutual where even the present profits are small. An appreciation which appeared recently in the Dramatic Mirror of Mr. Laemmle who is receiving a shower of congratulations on his latest Master Stroke, The Mobilizing of America's Cartoon Services. Louis Republic, The St. Louis PostDispatch, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Seattle Times, The Seattle PostIntelligencer.