Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1910)

Moving Picture World THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 125 E. 23d Street, NEW YORK (Beach Hul lil im; Telephone call, I.J I I Girnmercy Editors: J. P. CHALMERS, THOMAS BEDDING, F. R. P. S. SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 per year. Post free in the United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Porto Rica and the Philippine Island*. ADVERTISING RATES: Whole page, $60.00 ; half page, $30.00 ; quarter page, $15.00 ; eighth page, $7.50 ; one inch (3^ in. wide), $3.00 ; one inch (2^ in. wide), $2.00 ; classified (no display), 3 cents per word. Time Discounts : 5% two or more insertions, 10% three months order, 15% six montns, 20% twelve months. WESTERN OFFICE: 160 Washington Street, (Post Building, Chicago). Telephone Main 3145. Entered at the General Post Office in New York Citv as Second-Class Matter. Vol. 7 NOVEMBER 19, 1910 No. 21 Summary of the Week. The Picture "Marking Time" 1158 Is It Forward or Retreat? 1158 The Arbiter 1159 The Exhibitor and the Newspaper 1160 A Voice from the Berkshires 1161 Natural Color Photography. By Thos. Bedding, F.R.P.S.1160 The Pictural Drama. By Louis Reeves Harrison 1163 The American Film Manufacturing Company 1162 The "Xostrand" — A Model Brooklyn Show House 1164 The Picture on Its Trial 1 165 Vaudeville, Music, Uniforms. By J. M. B 1166 "Lux Graphicus" on the Imp Prize Scenario Film 1167 Trouble Department Queries Answered by F. H. Richardson 1 168 New England Notes 1173 Comments on the Films 1176 From the Lone Star State 1179 Chicago Notes 1 180 Industrial Moving Pictures of Value 1 182 Growth of the Yankee 1 182 Notes of the Trade 1182 Letters to the Editor — Why So Much Drama? — The Test — Argument vs. Results — Why Vaudeville Is Detrimental — "Photoplay" — The Fittest Are Surviving— From a Member of the Public — Let Excelsior Be the Cue — The "Art" of the Producer — Another Trouble Department 1182-1184 In the Mississippi Valley 1185 Higher Education the Need 1185 Licensed Film Stories 1 186 Licensed Film Release Dates 1188 Independent Film Stories 1190 Independent Release Dates 1194 NOTICE. The new Western offices of the Moving Picture World, Rooms 307-309, Post building, 160 Washington street, Chicago, are now ready to receive World readers visiting Chicago. Mr. John M. Bradlet, Wester representative of the World, will extend to every one a cardial welcome. They will find a complete file of manufacturers' catalogues and a bureau of information on films, theater construction, maaterials and supplies. They will also find desks and stationery for their correspondence, the services of a lady stenographer and a polite messenger boy to act as their guide or go their errands. We invite every exhibitor or person interested in motion pictures to make our Western office their headquarters when visiting Chicago. Announcements. The long promised Motion Picture Handbook, by F. II. Richardson, is now ready for delivery. The price is Si. 50, postage free. Several hundred mail orders have already been filled and anyone who has ordered and paid for a copy and has not yet received it should notify us at once. The World's staff of editors are now at work on another and more comprehensive work, a Year Book of Motion" Pictures. The first volume of this projected annual will contain a historical review of the growth of the industry. YYc invite contributions from any of our readers who can furnish authentic historical data or articles of scientific interest. Technical articles dealing with the various branches of the industry are also solicited and will be paid for according to^their value. The publishers thereby hope to be able to issue in the near future a standard reference book and guide to the photoplay, for which, to use a trite expression, there is an aching void. Arrangements are now being made for two or more CASH prize competitions that will be of much more than pecuniary interest to our readers. The first of these is briefly referred to on page 1166, this week's issue, and is intended to encourage a more general use of the uniformed attendant at the photoplay. Our Chicago representative is now completing the details of this competition, which will be announced in due course. The second competition will be more far-reaching and will interest every reader of the paper, but more especially the operator. The prize list will be much larger, but the details of the competition are so heavy that we will not be able to make public the conditions until the month of December. Beginning next week a new department will be inaugurated in the pages of the Moving Picture World, viz., "Music for the Picture/' This department will be conducted by Mr. Clarence E. Sinn, the director of the much lauded orchestra in the Orpheum Theater, Chicago. A series of valuable articles on the "Technique of the Photoplay.'' by George R. Craw, is in tvpe. and also articles on "The Acting in the Silent Drama." bv C. H. Gaudy, all of which will appear at an early date.