The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1908)

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THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 65 TEACHINQ BY MOVING PICTURES. Surgical Operations and Nervous Diseases Before the Camera. One of the new uses to which moving pictures are put is teaching, and at least one house dealing in films publishes a list of some hundreds intended for class room use. Most peculiar of all are the pictures of • operations intended for display in hospitals, and medical colleges. In fact, it is explicitly stated that medical and surgical films are restricted to exhibition before such institutions and cannot beJeased except under strict guarantees that their use will be so limited. Perhaps, however, the general public would not care to sit through a vaudeville show and at the end as the house was darkened read in letters of light upon the screen: "Removal of a myxomatous tumor of the thigh," or "Extirpation of a bilateral exophthalmic goitre." The catalogue, which describes these films and which promises many more than are contained in the issues for this year, describes them in great detail. One series consists of half a dozen operations all of the same general nature, the "Extirpation of encapsuled tumors," and in all more than one-fifth of a mile of film is needed. Surgery is not alone in being thus illustrated. Medicine has its pictures, more particularly to illustrate the diseases in which there is a characteristic walk. Various forms of paralysis where the diagnosis is dependent on the gait are shown in detail. The pictures of such a disease as paralysis agitans show the characteristic rigidity of the body when the sufferer is walking and of the face muscles when talking. An unusual series illustrates the effect of beriberi on the natives of Borneo. Moving pictures also have their use in solving problems of agriculture and public health. The dealers in films announce that by a process which they describe as micro-kinematography they can show the typhoid bacilli magnified 850 diameters in all stages of growth and movement. Similarly the circulation of blood in the web of a frog's foot is shown, and the movement of the chlorophyl or green coloring bodies in the leaf. The possibility of teaching geography in this way is easily uuderstood, and the motion picture camera has invaded most parts of the civilized world. Even the religious field is not neglected and the attention of Sunday schools and missionary societies is called to such subjects as "Open air Bible classes in India," conducted by native evangelists, or "Outcasts of India; Procession of men, women and children who have embraced the Christian religion.". Zoology offers a list of subjects that ought to charm any child into forgetting that he is learning. The subjects range from polar bear fishing to camels crossing the desert. Very many of these pictures have been made in the famous wild animal park of Carl Hagenbeck near Hamburg. Of the microscopic picture some 600 feet is devoted to the one subject of "Life in a water butt," with a cheerful collection of views of such creatures as megatherium bacilli and Paramecium, or a swarm of water fleas. had to submit to a strict censor by the police, who used their discretion as to whether or not the pictures were fit for public exhibition. Under such a ruling a Chicago police lieutenant barred "Hamlet" as depicting too violent scenes and because the word "damned" was used. Yet at the time there were a number of "ten, twenty and thirty" shows playing in the cheaper theaters of that city, on the order of "Bloody Pete'.s Revenge," wherein murder was done every ten minutes in full view of the audience and the villains were in true villainous style The honest moving picture man does not object to the provisions of the fire and health laws when they are enforced with fairness, nor to suitable police censoring, but overdoing the latter has led to better days for the moving picture shows. F. & H. LEVY CO. INCORPORATES. The F. & H. Levy Manufacturing Co., of New York (novelties), with a capital of $25,000, was incorporated recently with the secretary of the State of New York. Directors: Fred Knowlton, G38 East 139th street; Felix Levy, 111 East Fourteenth street; R. Hyman, 116 West 115th street. New York. FAIR PLAY FOR NICKEL THEATRES. HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE. While Supervision Is Necessary in the Public Interest It Should Not Descend to Persecution — The Honest Arcade Man Should be Given a Chance to Succeed. Although the smaller moving picture shows suffer considerably through the close supervision of various municipal authorities, especially the fire department, and though such supervision frequently amounts almost to persecution, so strong has become their hold on the public that at the present time they are not only held responsible for such features in the construction of their theaters as aifect public safety. It was not so very long ago that moving picture shows Chatting with a talking machine man the other day who was somewhat disgruntled because business was quiet, he said: "I feel like becoming a millionaire." "An admirable idea," The World retorted. "What have you struck this time, an inside deal in stocks or a gold mine?" . "Oh, no! Nothing of that kind, it is a simple mathematical proposition. For instance, just save a cent a day, two cents to-morrow, four cents the next day, and continue through the month, doubling each day the savings of the preceding day. At the month's end you would be a multimillionaire. Try it on paper. Any other way is impractical, of course, and the way most people get rich is on paper." Your Boy Will Tell You The Sales Possibilities In The Relleetoseope Send foi our booklet and let him look it over. He will prove the demand for thi.s machine and consequently profit in handling it by keeping right after you to get a Ref lectoseope for him. For no normal boy or girl can see or read about this machine without wanting one. It appeals to that instinctive love of pictures found, not only in all children, but in all "grownups" as well, as the astonishing popularity of illustrated post cards amply demonstrates. 2 REFLECTOSCOPE The Post Card Magic Lantern ilin.ws upon a screen a brilliant 6 to 10 ft. reproduction of any post card, photograph or clipping in all the exact coloring of the original. It occupies the same relation to the Magic Lantern as the Modern I'honograph to the old six-tune Music Box,and, like the phonograph, it never grows old. The Reflectoscope is the only Post Card Reflector that is built on scientific lines — that is, constructed largely of aluminum, making it light In weight and highly efficient — that has five reflecting surfaces, getting every particle of efficiency out of the light generated — that is equipped with double lenses— that attracts attention by its design and finish — in shoi't, the only machine which is a trade getter in both looks and results. It costs twice as much as others to iiiahc ; sells at the same price. Retail price for gas, electric or denatured alcohol, mounted ready for use and beautifully japanned in black and red, .f.5.00 complete. SELLING AGENTS GEO. BORGFELDT & CO., 48-50 West 4th Street, New York City THE STROBEL & WILKEN CO., 591 Broadway, New York City ALCO-GAS APPLIANCES DEPT., 159-161 West 24th St, New York Write for Details.