The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

816 MOVING FICTU RE WORLD ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ December 26, 1925 To Stimulate Protect'thc'Print Effort NAME THE OBJECTS in, on and around the Christmas Tree, in the picture yonder, that are going to make this such a happy season for the hard working Print. All are in plain view. Every one of you who handles prints should know all of them. Write a letter telling what you are doing to protect the print and' send the list and letteo* together, with your name, address and theatre, exchange or other motion picture connection, to VAN, MOVING PICTURE WORLD'S YOUR EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT, 516 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. For the most accurately named list of Protect-thePrint objects with the best letter on what its writer is doing to protect the print, Moving Picture World will award the sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), allotted to YOUR EQUIPMENT department by the Chdmer;: Publishing Company in the effort to stimulate better prints. For the second most accurate list with a letter as above, will be awarc!ed a Duplex Film Patching Block, donated by Duplex Film Laboratories in the interest of the campaign for protection of the print — to make more perfect patching possible. For the third most accurate list with letter as above, will be awarded a Rewinder Set, donated by Independent Movie Supply Compeuny of New York, in the interest of this campaign for print protection — an important item in the rewinding of prints safely and quickly. In the event of a tie in amy of the three award classes, a similar award will be made to each of the tying contributors. While this is a series of awards arranged in an effort to promote interest in film protection rather than a prize contest, it will be well to set the date of mailing this issue of Moving Picture World as an opening date for the sending of letters and lists; and Saturday noon, January sixteenth, will be the closnig time for the acceptance for consideration of letters and lists.. . . With the exception of members of the staff of Moving Picture World or of the staffs of Duplex Film Industries, Inc., or of IndepencJent Movie Supply Company of New York, anyone is eligible to submit accuracy-testing list and protect-the-print letter. The judges who will pass upon the accuracy of your list and decide the value of your orotect-the-print work are as follows: F. H. Richardson, editor Moving Picture World's "Better Projection" department, a man constauitly boosting for print protection. H. H. Buxbaum, Sales Manager for New York and Eastern New Jersey for Fox Film Company. The Editor of YOUR EQUIPMENT department. These judges will base their decision on the accuracy of your naming of protect-the-print objects in, on and around the Chirstmas Tree and upon the value of your contribution to print protection effort as stated in your letter. Spelling, grammar or correct use of English will have no bearing upon their decision. Write your name, address and film activity plainly. Awards will be made and their recipients named in an issue of Moving Picture World as soon as possible after the date cf closing this protect-the-film campaign on January 16th. ^iiiiiiiii!iiiiinL^ii(ii!iii'i!ii!iiiiiiiii!i:i;iiiiiiiiiiiiiii!<iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ iiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiniuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiOM^^ Puhlix Theatres to Build Big Studio For Adequately Equipping New Presentations A MAMMOTH STUDIO BUILDING, designed for the construction and rehearsal of elaborate stage presentations and manned by a staflF which will include several of the country's foremost experts, is the ambitious and revolutionary project announced by Publix Theatres Corporation. Here will be planned and developed, under the direction of John Murray Anderson, famous Greenwich Village Follies producer, the stage productions which are to be featured in the leading houses of the nation-wide circuit of motion picture theatres operated by the new corporation. The studio, which is to be a five-story building, 140 feet wide and 225 feet deep, will be erected on a site directly opposite the big motion picture producing studio of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in Long Island City. The plans for the structure are being prepared in the office of R. E. Hall & Co., Inc., of New York, architects and engineers; immediately upon their completion and final approval contracts will be let and the work of construction will be started. In it will be a full-sized stage with complete electrical and scenic equipment, a large paint shop and scene dock, a carpenter shop, a special audition hall, six rehearsal rooms, a music library, an orchestra rehearsal room, costume and drapery departments, property room, a picture projection theatre, ballet rehearsal rooms and the offices of the production manager, Herschel Stuart; the director of productions, John Murray Anderson; the musical director, Nathaniel W. Finston; the ballet master, Boris Petroff, and other members of the stafT. One of the special features of the studio will be a theatrical lighting equipment of the most modern type, under the supervision of a master electrician or engineer who thus will be aflforded every opportunity for developing new effects in theatrical lighting, a form of visual enjoyment which the public has come unconsciously to accept as a most pleasurable feature of up-to-date motion picture theatre entertainment. Facilities will also be provided for experimentation in the field of interior design and decoration of theatres. In the screening of films in the studio's projection room special attention will be given to short subjects, the novelty shorter films that are an important part of the program of motion picture theatres. These films, as well as feature pictures, will be musically cued by the director of music. Attention will also be given to the development of scenic, musical and dancing novelties to be associated as a unit with certain particular feature pictures and short subjects. In the master music room will be filed the most complete music library in the world, the combined resources of some of the finest theatres in the United States. The administration of this library, together with the technical work of arrangements and or chestrations, will be under the supervision of the director of music, Nathaniel W. Finston. Mr. Finston, since the days when he served as conductor at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City, has become a nationally known figure. For some time he was the music director for the Balaban & Katz theatres in Chicago and for the past few * (Continued on next page) WHY PAY MORE? Roll Tickets Your Own Special Wording 100,000for$15.50 10,000 for S4.50, 20,000 for $7.50 50,000 for $10.00 Standard Rolls of Z,«M KEYSTONE TICKET CO. Dept. W., SHAMOKIN, PA. 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