Moving Picture World (Mar-Dec 1907)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. 163 Published Every Saturday. The Operators League. The replies we have received to our editorial on the above subject encourages us to offer a scheme for the approval of our correspondents, and others of our readers who may fall into line to make the League a success. We would like to get a meeting of those interested, that by an exchange of ideas some practical work could be accomplished, but as the operators are too far apart for such a meeting to take place, we must perforce resort to our columns for the elucidation of ideas and suggestions. So come, now, let us reason together, and try to find out what is needed, and how best to supply that need. We clip the following from some of the letters we have received : Edited by Alfred H. Saunders. The World Photographic Publishing Company, 361 Broadway, New YorK. Vol. 1., MAY 18th. No. 11. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : Two dollars a year in advance. Postage free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, Mexico Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Phillipine Islands. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Three dollars per year, in advance, postpaid. TO PREVENT loss or delay of mail, all communications should be addressed to P. O. Box 450, New York City. ADVERTISING RATES: Whole Page $50.00 Half Page . 25.00 Quarter Page . . . ' . 12.50 Single Column (next reading matter) . 20.00 One-Eighth Page .... 6.25 One-Sixteenth Page 3.25 One-Thirty-second Page 2.00 MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS will be accepted at the following rates: SALE OR EXCHANGE, Private, per line 10c.; minimum, 50c. per issue. Dealers or Manufacturers, 15c. per line; minimum, $1.00 per issue. HELP WANTED: 10c. a line; minimum, 25c. EMPLOYMENT WANTED : (Operators only) No Charge. TO ADVERTISERS : The MOVING PICTURE WORLD goes to press Thursday morning of each week. No advertisements can be inserted and no changes can be made in standing ads unless the copy reaches us by 10 A.M., Thursday. Please remit by express money order, check, P. O. order or registered letter. All cash enclosed with letter is at the risk of sender. EUROPEAN AGENTS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C. “An Operators’ League is a good idea, and if care is made in the selection of members, testing applicants, and verifying their credentials, giving a diploma of experience, and a badge, it ought to go. Of course every applicant should be willing to pay for this privilege. I enclose my application form, and $5.00 to cover all expenses. My experience commenced in 1886, and have used Edison and Powers machines. J. K,” “Wish to register as a Moving Picture Operator. Started with the Muto and Biograph Company in 1889; next with the Kinetograph Company. Have operated the Big American Biograph, closed with it in Los Angles in 1903. Took up small hand machines. The English Bioscope, the Edison and the Powers Cameragraph. J E. D.” “Think your League is fine. It ought to unite the fraternity of M. P. O. as nothing before has done. Keep out skimps and boys. Make a reasonable fee for examination, and let the certificate show qualifications and be a guarantee of standing. W. H. J.” “I like the suggested union of M. P. Os. Its what we >oys want. Something to give us a respectable standing. Doctors, lawyers dentists and others have their certifi:ates and degrees. Why not the boys behind the marine? We have to work hard enough, and hold the people’s lives in our hands same as the engine driver on the R. R. or any other old place. Make us fellows of the Fraternal Order of Moving Picture Operators of the United States of America. Give us our money’s worth every time, and we can do something then. I’ve been on the road, with tent and wagon shows, in churches and Masonic lodges for the past fifteen years, and appreciate a good thing when I see it. D. F. A. ’