Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1910)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 249 ating rooms, rhe asbesl Lag, but is exceedingly hard to work. 1 gel il on, however, it makes a splendid job. Sheet iron bai stos may also Ik used, but 1 cannot recommend it for high permanent work. Trouble Found. Some tunc since it will be rememberei dent, Iowa, 1 tlimk it was, complained that every time a figure in his picture moved it would blur. It was a which had the editor puzzled, and at the tunc no satisory solution was found. It now develops that the machine was finally sent to the factory and the stai was found in the shaft Just win this should produce this particular effect 1 not quite char, bul it did. New Song-Slide Box. — Gentry & Humphreys, Wallace, Idaho, .-end in description and pictures of their new songslide shipment 1>"\. It consists of four grooved compartments in which the slides are held apart from each other, thus doing away with danger of breakage and packing. The slides are simply slipped into the grooves, the box closed and it is ready to go. The package for twenty slides is 3^2 inches deep, ~l/i wide and 9J/2 long. The sole right to manufacture is for sale or they will consider a proposition of royalty, the sum named being live cents per box. The box seem far superior to the old style shipping box, and we wish Messrs. Gentry & Humphreys all success. Bye the bye, if Dave Coates, Editor, is still in Wallace, kindly say hello to him for me. Film Buckling. — Rosedale, Miss., writes that a certain make (one of the best manufacturers we have) of film buckles, or gets out of focus every few inches. I have written the makers of the films in question, Rosedale. Frankly, you have "got" me. If other films run all right in your machine I can imagine no possible reason wh\ the should not also. Still, I have heard the same complaint once before. Therefore I have written the manufacturer, since it may be possibly due to some peculiarity in the finish of the stock. More later. A Red Hot One on Salt Lake City. — From Salt Lake City comes a letter roasting the performances seen in that village to a brown turn. The letter tells of its writer visiting several picture shows, in one of which the machine was motor driven, the operator sitting by the window reading a book, with \rellow shadows half way up the curtain more than fifteen minutes at a stretch. Another turned the crank by hand, but was talking to some one, his head turned away, while the picture remained out of frame almost ten minutes. The writer says that if those men be called good operators he never wants to see a poor one (right, brother). The writer of the letter continues as follows: "I think every operator should understand thoroughly the theory of electricity and gas and be able to define their units. The operator while running should watch his picture continually, keep his focus sharp, allow no shadows at all on the screen. He should be able to do small mechanical jobs such as confront one in the operating room." How about this, Salt Lake City? I haven't set forth all that the letter contained by any means. I know your ten acre blocks and wide, shady streets, with white poles down their centers, well, for I ran an Rio Grand Western engine out of your city in 1889. Can it be possible that conditions set forth in the letter are true. Let us hear from you; also let us hope it will be honest denial and not excuses. NEW OFFICES FOR HALLBERG. J. H. Hallberg, formerly of Xo. 28-30 Greenwich Ave., Xew York City, has taken a long lease on the fourth floor of Xo. 36 East 23d St., which is one of the most convenient and desirable places for theatrical and moving picture managers and operators to reach. Mr. Hallberg expects to be fully established sometime before the 1st of August, and the arrangement of his offices and show room will be the most modern, and will be particularly instructive and useful to operators, because Mr. Hallberg will make a full display of every electrical and mechanical device for the theater. There will be shown new and novel current saving devices and the latest in the moving picture machine line, and a large and complete stock of supplies, c.rbons, etc., will always be on hand at the lowest market prices. A complete stock of repair parts will also be carried for all standard machines. A complete working exhibit of the "Hallberg" incandescent lighting system with economizer will also be subject to inspection. The building is provided with the most modern passenger and freight elevator service, and everybody is invited to call. The New York State Law in Regard to M. P. Machines. — Albanj the lie of motion pictui York. I ii. Edit many I. both orally and by letter, what an the ;■ Btatute. K01 the l >i all and sundry it i . in full: AN ACT To Amend the Greater New York Charter, in Relation to Licensing Operators of Moving Picture Apparatus and its Connections. Ih. People of the State of New York, represented in ate and Assembly, d( as follows: Section t. The Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and hereby amended by adding, after ion live hundred and twenty-nine, a new section, to be section five hundred and twenty-nine-a thereof, to read as follows: XO PERSOX TO OPERATE MOVIXG PICTURE APPARATUS AND ITS COXXECTIOXS WITHOUT A LICEXSE. Sec. 529-a. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to operate any moving picture apparatus and its connectionin the city of Xew York unless such person or persons so operating such apparatus is duly licensed as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to act as such operator shall make application for a license to so act to the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity of the city of Xew York, who shall furnish to each applicant blank forms of application which the applicant shall fill out. The Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity shall make rules and regulations governing the examination of applicants and the issuance of licenses and certificates. The applicant shall be given a practical examination under the direction of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, and if found competent as to his ability' to operate moving picture apparatus and its connections, shall receive within six days after such examination a license as herein provided. Such license may be revoked or suspended at any time by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. Every license shall continue in force for one year from the date of issue, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Ever} license, unless revoked or suspended, as herein provided, may at the end of one year from the date of issue thereof be renewed by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity in his discretion upon application and with or without further examination, as said Commissioner may direct. Every application for renewal of license must be made within the thirty days previous to the expiration of such license. With every license granted there shall be issued to every person obtaining such license a certificate, made by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, or such other officer as such Commissioner may designate, certifying that the person named therein is duly authorized to operate moving picture apparatus and its connections. Such certificate shall be displayed in a conspicuplace in the room where the person to whom it is issued operates moving picture apparatus and its connections. Xo person shall be eligible to procure a license unless he shall be a citizen of the United States and of full age. Any person offending against the provisions of this section, as well as any person who employs or permits a person not licensed as herein provided to operate moving picture apparatus and its connections, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. As to the practical effect of the law, it amounts to the placing of the entire control of examinations and licensing in the hands of the Department of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity, and forbids the licensing of any except citizens of the United States who are of full age. It is not yet decided, however, whether in case of foreign born citizens. first papers will be accepted, this point having been referred to the Attorney General for an opinion. It is my understanding that there will be no radical changes in the examination* which will in future, as in the past, seek to determine the applicants qualification, or lack of it, as the case may be, by a fair, practical test. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE MOVING PICTURE BUSINESS. YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. $2.00.