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THE OPTICAL LANTERN AND CINEMATOGRAPH JOURNAL.
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SCENE FROM THANKSGIVING AT TSARKOE SELO. (Warwick Trailing Co.)
THE nONTH'S NEW FILHS.
The halls during September have received many new subjects for their film shows, and, naturally, historical pictures of the RussoJapanese Peace have loomed well to the front.
Messrs. Gaumont & Co., for instance, have an important topical film which cannot but be of interest wherever shown. Through their correspondent, Mons. Gagelski, who is a Russian Court functionary, they obtained a series of the Czar reviewing the Army, and now they have produced a new film representing the demonstration of a new plough before the Czar, and Mons. Witte (the Russian Plenipotentiary, who has just signed the peace treaty at Portsmouth) and the Russian Minister of Agriculture. The scene is an open field, and the procession of the plough, with the Czar and his officials following for some distance, makes one of the finest sets of films of Russian dignitaries we have seen. Three other films in their new list, and worthy of special mention, are "A Visit to the Mint." "A Cruiser in a Rough Sea;" and "When Extremes Meet " — an excellent comic.
The Warwick Trading Co. have also received from their Continental house a splendid film of the Czar at the Peace Thanksgiving at Tsarkoe Selo, and we are glad to be able to give a reproduction of one of the pictures. The Warwick have issued a sequel to their famous " Ex-Convict " in a subject entitled "The Ex-Convict's Wedding," and this film is quite an animated novel, with a happy ending. Their latest comic, called " Catching a Tartar," is screamingly funny from beginning to end, and we have never seen such boxing as Miss Nelson, the lady boxer, performs, for the benefit or otherwise, of the tramps who attack her whilst cycling.
The Edison Manufacturing Co., of whom we should like to hear more, have a stirring film consisting of scenes and incidents in the Russo-Japanese Conference. It is one of the clearest and most interesting we have witnessed. In this series, the camera men have evidently had the advantage of exceptional facilities in order to take their pictures. If the whole business had been acted on the boards in front of them, they could not have obtained more perfect grouping or more pic