Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

September 16, 1916 THE Mi >\ [NG l'li rURE \\ < >kl.l> lsu.l L THR FILM INDEJC Entered at the General Post Office, New York City, as Second Class Mattel J. P. Chalmers, Founder. Published Weekly by the Chalmers publishing Company 17 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. (Telephone, 3510 Madison Square) J. P. Chalmers, Sr President J. F. Chalmers Vice-President E. J. Chalmers Secretary and Treasurer John Wylie General Manager The office of the company is the address of the officers. Chicago Office— Suite 917-919 Schiller Building, 64 West Randolph St.. Chicago, 111. Telephone, Central 5099. Pacific Coast Office — Haas Building, Seventh St. and Broadway. Los Angeles. Cal. Telephone, Broadway 4649. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Philippine Islands $3.00 per year Canada 3.50 per year Foreign Countries (Postpaid) 4.00 per year Changes of address should give both old and new addresses in full and be clearly written. Two weeks' time may be required to effect the alteration. ADVERTISING RATES. Classified Advertising — no display — three cents per word ; minimum charge, fifty cents. Display Advertising Rates made known on application. Latin American market. Do oui American produ knew or do they care to know thai at this tunc then more film buyers for South America in Italj and in Fran* e than evei before So insistent has been the demand for films in Latin America thai Italy enjoys exceptional film prosperity in spite of the war. It is getting the besl pi with a minimum of production. I lure have been sporadic Latin American film buyers up here, but their welcome lias nut been what the) expected. Jt seems incomprehensible to us that with the dwindling profits of the European market the American producer with one or two exceptions simply refuses to heed the opportunities o! this new outlet for his productions. EXHIBIT* IRS in this city are jubilant over the announcement made by Health Commissioner Emerson, who said he would permit the motion picture theatres to admit children more than twelve years old on and after Labor Day. License Commissioner Bell has been notified. The original order it will be remembered prohibited the admission of children under 16. These two officials, Health Commissioner Emerson and License Commissioner Bell, have been sympathetic in their attitude toward the exhibitors and have realized the harshness of the original order, which has now been so substantially modified. WE ARE indebted to E. K. Pearson, an exchange man in a Western city, for a series of terse, epigrammatic "drives" against censorship. We will print them at an early date but to give our readers a taste of their quality here is one that scores an easy bullseye : If a newspaper continuously reflects an attitude naturally contrary either to the wants, education, tastes or practicability of a people, it shortly disappears from circulation for want of enough subscribers to make it pay. Likewise, a theater that shows what people don't want to see must close for want of patronage. And the manufacturer and exchange circulating such films must close for want of profit. Does there still live an 'I" so egotistical as to think that the other hundred million are in danger of demoralization because that "I" doesn't censor Motion Pictures before the rest can see them? Note — Address all correspondence, remittances and subscriptions to Moving Picture World, P. O. Box 226, Madison Square Station, New York, and not to individuals. {The Index for this issue will be found on page 1894) "CINE-MUNDIAL." the monthly Spanish edition of the Moving Picture World, is published at 17 Madison Avenue by the Chalmers Publishing Company. It reaches the South American market. Yearly subscription, $1.50. Advertising rates on application. THE Moving Picture World is glad to see the exhibitors of the three Maritime Provinces of Canada get together and organize for the promotion of the common welfare. The moving spirits in the plan evidently have the right idea as will be seen by the appeal for organization printed on another page of this week's issue of the Moving Picture World. We are stronger than ever in our belief that through the increase of the exhibitors influence in the industry the whole industry will be benefited. Saturday, September 16, 1916 Facts and Comments IT IS the common opinion of all film men who have given any thought to the subject that the film export from America to the rest of the world will undergo revolutionary changes after the war quite irrespective of the ending of the war. To discuss this subject in all of its phases would require far more space than we have at our disposal here, but to one aspect of the situation we must make a brief allusion. We refer to the KANSAS exhibitors in convention at Topeka have opened the fight against censorship in that state with a determination to wipe a particularly obnoxious and confiscatory law off the statute books. They are at a disadvantage in that they have a law to repeal, but that disadvantage is partly overcome by the general feeling throughout the state that censorship is being used as a means of collecting revenue rather than as a measure of correction. Proposed censorship measures have been generally looked upon as "strike bills" in other states, but it "has remained for Kansas to turn censorship to this sordid use. Savors of blackmail.