Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)

46 MOVING PICTURE WORLD COSTUMES Rented for Orchestras and Presentations Send for Orchestra Catalog and Prices NEW YORK COSTUME CO. 137 No. Wabash Ave. Chicago, 111. MOVING PICTURE THEATRE FOR SALE New, modern theatre in live Florida city with good trade territory adjacent. No competition. Now earning about 25% on investment, including real estate, building and equipment. $6,000.00 cash will handle. Address REGENT THEATRE, Crystal River, Florida SAVE MONEY ON YOUR Roll Tickets Your Own Special Wording 100,000 for $15.50 10,000 for $4.50, 20,000 for $7.50 50,000 for $10,00 Standard Rolls of 2,000 KEYSTONE TICKET CO. Dept. W., SHAMOKIN, PA. STOCK TICKETS 100,000 for $13.50 ANY ASSORTMENT YOU WANT page 343 first volumne of the Bluebook, or better still, the Auerbach system described on page 347, be installed, testing for grounds is a very simple matter, consuming little of either time or energy. It should be done each day the equipment is used. Testing for grounds should be just as much a part of the daily routine as oiling the projectors. If you have installed the proper testing equipment, as before named, it is far less trouble than oiling.” That, gentlemen, is a complete, competent answer, without any lost motion. Hanover is right. Every projectionist should make it his business to install either the Auerback system (which is best) or a permanent test lamp such as is shown on page 343 of Vol. 1 of the Bluebook; same page of the Fourth Edition. Question No. 602. — Tell us how you would install a permanent ground wire for testing for grounds. The answer of brother Curie is best of the many excellent replies submitted, chiefly because of the work he has done on the drawing. He says : “It is highly desirable that a permanent, known ground be established in the projection room. This may be done by attaching a No. 14 or larger copper wire to a water pipe, or by soldering the end of such a wire to a copper plate not less than one foot square, and burying the plate, imbedded in powdered coke, in the ground deep enough to secure a permanent contact with moist earth. If the wire is attached to a water pipe the pipe should be scraped clean and bright, the wire should be soldered to a regulation ground clamp, which should be securely clamped to the water pipe by means either to the water pipe or to the buried copper plate. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Help and Situations Wanted Only 5c per word per insertion Minimum charge $1.00 Terms, Strictly Cash with Order Copy must reach us by Monday noon to Insure pubication in that week's issue. SITUATION WANTED STUDENT desires position as assistant operator in movie theatre. Will go anywhere. Box 419 Moving Picture World, New York City. of a stove bolt. Having attached the ground wire, it should be carried to a convenient point in the projection room, and the end of it attached to one binding post of an ordinary incandescent lamp socket, as shown in the diagram. We then attach another copper wire to the other binding post of the lamp socket, this latter wire being long enough to reach any part of the apparatus it may be desired to test. The addition of an incandescent lamp in the socket makes the testing for grounds a very simple matter, since we have only to touch the thing desired to test with the bare end of the test wire.” Shoot for Cash (Continued from page 43) of the receipts of the theatre. He gets the supplies at cost and is repaid in the good will and advertising he gets out of the stunt. We are showing from 150 to ’50 feet per week and when the necessary titles are added this makes quite a big showing. Not counting labor or depreciation of equipment, our Ramseygrams costs us about six and a half cents a foot to make, for the pictures, and about two cents per foot for titles; averaging up it runs to not quite five cents per foot of shown film. As our camera has a trick crank, one revolution of crank to a frame of film, we are able to make animated titles. Titles and subtitles are made as short as possible, and my job is to endeavor to put a little humor into them and be careful not to appear as trying to be “smart” or to make fun of anyone. But we like to have at least one laugh in each release. Sometimes our weekly consists of only one subject. When necessary to make up the footage we use more subjects, one main event and the necessary filler material. We find the whole stunt quite interesting, a real business booster and at present it is the talk of the town. WARNING! Notice is hereby given that Essanay Film Manufacturing Company will employ all legal means to prevent infringement of its copyright of the following Charlie Chaplin subjects BURLESQUE ON CARMEN ESSANAY CHAPLIN REVIEW A NITE IN THE SHOW A JITNEY ELOPMENT A NITE OUT HIS NEW JOB THE BANK THE TRAMP SHANGHAIED BY THE SEA POLICE THE CHAMPION IN THE PARK TRIPLE TROUBLE A WOMAN WORK Where the facts warrant, evidence will be presented to the federal authorities for criminal action. Conspiracy to violate a United States statute and wilful violation of the copyright laws are punishable bv fine and imprisonment. ESSANAY FILM MANUFACTURING CO. GEO. K. SPOOR, President AH correspondence to BLAND BROTHERS, 730 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IB. Only authorized agents to handle these films for the entire world. Stage and Pit (Continued from page 44) r | ''HE SETTING. Figures i and 2. The circular door frame, -L a, is easily made of wall board and light framework. The door. B, (dotted lines fig. 1, show .position back of frame) is hung on the track c and parts in the center. Step “b” serves as step from the door as well as platform on which the pages are stationed. A eye, E, is used for masking. It is obviously impossible to “set up” for each period change, especially when so much of the novelty of the thing depends on quick change from one scene to the next. It therefore becomes necessary to construct these scenics on movable platforms that can be quickly rolled into place directly back of the door. This, however, becomes a relatively simple thing to do due to the comparatively small setting necessary for each change. It is a simple matter to equip the platforms with wheels, in form of ordinary loft sheaves, adjusted to a track of Y\ inch half round moulding, tacked, flat side down, to the stage floor. Use small finishing nails to fasten track and it will be found that these will pull right through the moulding when the track is pulled up. The platform sets can also be very much simplified and. as the part actually seen is not much larger than a fair-sized storewindow, it does not take a great deal of material to make a showing. The primeval setting shows a big set tree, ferns and shrubs in the background, backed by jungle. Spanish moss, vines, climbing flowers, etc., adds to the jungle atmosphere. Red and amber globes on winker buttons under the logs to suggest fires. The Egyptian era; a barge on the Nile, the backing showing pyramids in the far distance. A bright colored canopy under which the Pharaoh is seated on a dais. Slaves and dancing girls. The Minuet : silver or gold cloth backing, in the background a formal, trimmed hedge in front of which is a carved marble seat, grass mats on the floor. Natural greens can be used to splendid advantage in this as well as the opening scene.