The Moving picture world (October 1920)

1290 MOVING PICTURE WORLD October 30, 1920 Pathe News Cameraman "Shot" Man O'War Successfully Though Barred from Track IN a reel which includes topics of such world-wide interest as scenes of the anti-English demonstrations in Ireland, the visit to El Paso of the newly elected President Obregon of Mexico and -the Prince of Wales in Bermuda on his tour of the British Isles, Pathe News No. 83, released October 16, shows the entire race in which the great Man o' War beat Sir Barton for a purse of $75,000 and a gold cup valued at $5,000 at Windsor, Canada, October 12. The scenes of the race form a complete and thrilling pictorial record of the great racing classic, in which two of the greatest horses ever foaled on this side of the Atlantic were matched to decide the thoroughbred supremacy of America. Whole Race Shown The horses are shown as they came away from the barrier with Man o' War leading by a slight margin. The camera followed them around the track and the scenes clearly show the victor's wonderful burst of speed as he swung into the backstretch and opened up a distance of ten lengths between him and Sir Barton. The pictures also show Man o' War with Kummer up being escorted by his trainer, Louis Feustal, to the judges' stand to receive his prize. The pictures were taken by Al Wetzel of the Pathe staff. Wetzel was not admitted to the grounds, so he was obliged to find a location outside which would give him a scope of the entire course. He set up his camera on a truck just outside the fence and with a long focus lens got close up pictures of the classic sporting event. Mexican and Irish Pictures The pictures of Obregon in El Paso are exclusive to Pathe News. The President-elect of Mexico paid his first official visit on American soil and in an informal address at the International Exposition expressed his desire to foster amicable relations between Mexico and the United States. The Irish pictures show scenes outside the churches in Cork, where masses were celebrated for Lord Mayor MacSwiney and the eleven other hunger strikers imprisoned in Brixton prison. The final game of the world's series in which Cleveland defeated Brooklyn for the world's baseball championship for 1920 is another feature of this issue. Other notable articles include some thrilling aeroplane pictures of a big dirigible built for the army air service. Bert Green contributes a diverting conception of the possible experiences that might befall the man who recently offered to be shot to the moon in a giant rocket. Travel Pictures Shown in "The Porcelain Lamp" In the "The Porcelain Lamp," which the Harry Levey Service Corporation is preparing and which is to illustrate the entire evolution of travel beasts of burden of all ages and climes are to be shown. While cameramen and directors are being sent to many parts of the globe for the making of this feature, it is, of course, planned to take all scenes possible in this country, with the aid of special sets built on locations. For this reason, the Harry Levey staff has recently been busy collecting animals, and scenes on location where the picture is being made, present a strange melee of animals, and cameramen and directors. Menageries and zoos throughout New York and surrounding cities have been secured for different kinds of animals, and scenes on the Levey locations now represent to the casual passer-by something in the nature of a town fair or a circus, it is said. This picture will also portray people of all nationalities, it is stated, for it is to show not only the evolution of travel, but modes of travel in use everywhere. Turks, Chinese, Japanese, ancient Egyp tians, French, Russians, Venetians, Italians and Eskimos will be represented. The discovery of gasoline, it is alleged, is being picturized for the first time in this film. Scenes were 'made recently of this discovery, just as it really occurred. Another important feature in connection with the making of this picture, is the fashioning of models of vehicles that have played a part in the evolution of travel and of which there are today no examples in existence. Such vehicles are being carefully studied through the medium of old books, charts and drawings, under the direction of Don Carolos Ellis, head of the Levey Historical Research Department, and models of these old modes of travel are being prepared in accordance with plans and specifications laid out as a result of the information contained in these volumes. BEAR THIS IN MIND: "DIRECTED BY" ROBERT 0. VIONOLA GUARANTEES TO THE EXHIBITOR SCREEN ENTERTAINMENTS THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY GOODMOTION PICTURES THAT PLEASE THE PUBLIC LOOK FOR IT WHEN YOU BOOK YOUR SHOWS! VIGNOLA PRODUCTIONS MADE FOR COSMOPOLITAN RELEASED BY PARAMOUNT MEMBER M P. D. A.