Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)

8/0 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD as the Count De Linieres. Of splendid physique and commanding stage presence, each of these gentlemen compel attention. The sword duel between the Chevalier and the Marquis De Preales is no tame affair, as anyone who knows anything about fencing can see at a glance. It is the most realistic I have seen for a long time. The costuming of the characters has been attended to with praiseworthy supervision. The garden party at Belair presents a scene of sartorial elegance. The smoothness of the acting and the intensity of the action throughout bear testimony to painstaking rehearsals under Producer Turner's eye. "The Two Orphans" is a triumph for the Selig Polyscope Company and will go down in moving picture history as one of the big successes, scored by the silent drama. It illustrates in a remarkable manner how the moving picture can convey the story and plot of a drama, the motives governing the various characters — their loves and hatreds, their crimes and follies — all so convincingly that the spectator's mind is held in thrall. And in scenic investiture one is led through the very places and spots where the plot has been laid, breathing their very atmosphere and taking in their sights and sounds. "PICTURESQUE COLORADO" (Rex). Reviewed by Jas. S. McQuade. While visiting Joe Hopp, of the Standard Exchange, last week, I inquired about "Picturesque Colorado" by Rex. Joe then informed me that he was about to send out the last print he had on hand to a customer, and courteously offered to run it off for me in the office exhibiting room. The film opens with views of the industrial parade recently held in Denver, the floats used and the great crowds on the sidewalks being pictured clearly. Then a bird's eye view of Denver follows, which gives the spectator an idea of the wealth and importance of the city. Next we accompany a party of tourists, as the ascent above the clouds is made, on the Moffet road, and we are treated to a snow-ball contest on Mt. Corona in July. The trip by train, over the Georgetown loop, is next made, after which we see passengers making a sheer ascent of 4,000 feet up a precipitous mountainside in a bucket by means of an endless aerial wire rope. We next look down the Cheyenne Canon, near Colorado Springs, and afterwards make the trip to Royal Gorge, the sublimity of the scenery dwarfing the works of men and even the flights of the imagination. And now the mind is carried back to the races of the remote past, as we view the ruins of cliff dwellers at Manitou. We are immediately recalled to the present by a band of Indians engaged in a war dance, in the very shadow of the cliffs through whose openings many thousands of eyes have peered out on fearsome scenes in the far past. Manitou is next visited and we view the famous soda springs, where the water of that name is bottled and shipped far and wide. Our party then makes the trip by auto to the Garden of the Gods, near Colorado Springs. There the famous "Balanced Rock" is seen in the left of the roadway, resting its weight of hundreds of tons on a tiny base from which one expects to see it topple at any moment, before the breath of the wind. The massive "Steamboat Rock," fashioned in the shape of a ponderous steamer, is seen on the right. Returning, we meet Ute Indians going to the garden to engage in a sun dance. The world's largest warm water swimming pool, at Glenwood Springs, is next visited. Near the springs we catch sight of mountain climbers, and the adventurous camera man must have been near them, for we see Glenwood Springs and the valley, thousands of feet below. . „--:-: i-j ■ . ■ , I : « ■ ~ -,. . • Scene at Pont Neuf, in "The Two Orphans" (Selig).