Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

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40 REEL and SLIDE The Other Fellow's Idea (Continued from page 23) By "overcoming space" is meant that it is possible to project on any wall, in any office or projection room having moving pictures, of anything however big or however distant. For instance, factories, explosions, satisfied users, foreign branches, raw materials, plantation or any desirable spot of the globe, however far away or however difficult to reach, may all be brought into one small room, in a single afternoon. The atmosphere of the North Pole or the Equator can be taken into any room without discomfort. Chemical processes can be observed without inhaling the fumes. Dynamite can be exploded without danger. Savage men and savage animals may be looked in the eye with safety. However difficult and however expensive it may be to assemble a set of peculiar circumstances necessary to demonstrate or prove anything, these circumstances can be reproduced times without end, by the motion picture, with only the one cost to pay. Not only can the motion picture put before an emplovee or a sales prospect all that the eye can observe without respect to time or place, but also, with great success, the invisible can be made real. What was said heretofore, in connection with research work, should be considered also from a factory training and sales point of view. The motion picture can expose the invisible. By use of the delaying process it can exhibit plainly those movements which occur too swiftly for the eye to perceive. It can overcome all these disadvantages which result in the common phrase, "Please do it over again, slow." For example, the path of a pitched ball which will not bend except when it is thrown too swiftly to be seen, can be watched to creep through its curvature in pictures. Community Bureau Sends Corwin on Mission In his youth Carl Edwin Corwin joined the navy and put to sea for the Philippines, taking with him one of the first cameras on the market. The pictures he sent back won immediate recognition in American magazines, and when the motion picture arrived he began making thousands of miles of films for the biggest corporations. His work as photographer took him from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to India, China and Africa, making travel pictures. Now he is in France taking pictures for the Community Motion Picture Bureau. Intuition is the first quality in a successful motion picture photographer. He must know what the public wants in the way of the new and novel ; he must have what is known as the "camera eye," selecting at a glance the artistic and effective setup and eliminating all confusing detail. He must be ready to take assignments any hour of day or night. Now the same intuition and resourcefulness which got Carl Corwin into Mexico, the first of all the movie men, during border troubles has served him well in overseas work. He has taken the important personages in the limelight of France, photographed the pageants wherever they were put on, visited Y. M. C. A. huts in all parts of France and sometimes supervised the installation of motion picture machines. He knows the soldier's every like and dislike and has a knowledge of the things likely to please the people in civilian life. He will record for the Bureau scenes of great historic value in which the American Expeditionary Forces figure. Motiographs Widely Used in Institutions Manager O. F. Spahr of the Enterprise Optical Mfg. Co., Chicago, maker of the Motiograph projector, reports the following recent installations in educational institutions : University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Board of Education, Shiocton, Wis. Board of Education, Black Earth, Wis. Budlong School, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago. Field School, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago. High School, Clayton, New Mexico. Superintendent E. Her, Antigo, Wis. Noyes School, Evanston, 111. Grafton High School, Grafton, Wis. Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wis. State Capitol Building, Madison, Wis. Cleveland's $2,000,000 Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio. Board of Education, Crystal Lake, 111. Massillon State Hospital, Massillon, Ohio. Dubuque College, Dubuque, Iowa. Public School, Wasco, Ore. School for Feeble Minded, Salem, Ore. Training School, Salem, Ore. Central School, Astoria, Ore. Indian School, Pipestone, Minn. Lakefield Public School, Lakefield, Minn. First District State Normal, Kirksville, Mo. Board of Industrial Education, McKinley School, Manitowoc, Wis. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Madison, Wis. Indiana School, Aurora, Minn. Fresno Normal School, Fresno, Cal. Pio Nouve College (Rev. F. J. Barbian), St. Francis, Wis. State Normal School, Jacksonville, Ala. Rev. P. Schirmer, Cologne, Minn. Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wis. Rev. J. O'Kennedy, Helena, Mont. Int. Christian College, Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. Ambrose Kryjewski, New Brighton, Minn. Y. M. C. A., Minneapolis, Minn. Indian School, Aurora, Minn. Walker State Sanitarium, Walker, Minn. Mr. C. A. Rehm of the Atlas Educational Film Company is honeymooning in the West. PEERLESS STANDARD PROJECTOR Ideal for Editing and Examining Film in Theatres, Studios and Laboratories The PEERLESS STANDARD PROJECTOR has the wonderful 5 to 1 eccentric star intermittent movement and a balanced shutter of three equal 45 degree blades that passes 62^% of the light from the objective and gives an absolutely flickerless picture at less than normal speed. Particularly adapted to film inspection and editing, as it can be operated at any speed or stopped for cutting and patching. Takes one-thousand feet standard reels. Uses 2% amperes with motor drive, or less with crank. Projects pictures up to 10 feet wide at any distance up to 75 feet. In order that every purchaser or user of ANY STANDARD PROJECTOR may understand the hazardous nature of the celluloid film, either in storage or use, the name-plate of the Peerless Standard Projector bears the following: "CAUTION" Any Projector using inflammable cell uloid films is subject to State, Municipal and Insurance restrictions provided to reduce fire hazard. Send for Circular Peerless Projector Co. Dept. J. 32 West 43rd Street New York