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THE FILM INDEX
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thing, especially when a large per¬ centage of the patrons of such thea¬ tres is made up of minors, or adults without the education and point of view which will enable them to see these things as they are.
One can have little but admira¬ tion for the pains and time spent in making such films in the first place the patient training of the actors, the selection of the proper back¬ grounds, the hiring of houses, furni¬ ture, railroad trains, steamboats, automobiles — anything necessary for the picture; but one can wish heartily that the effort had produced something elevating, or at least harmless, instead of the seeming realism of bloodshed, crime and bru¬ tality.
To see an Indian bind his captive and drag him swiftly at the end of a rope tied to his horse, over rough and rocky ground, is not a pleasant sight, even when one knows that a dummy has been substituted for the real man who was tied, and under¬ stands that the horse and man are traveling at twice their normal pace, because the operator is “hitting it up” a little with the crank he turns. To see a knife plunged deep into the breast of a woman by a jealous lover conveys a picture a thousand times as vivid as reading of the act, and, by the art of the picture-maker, the knife really seems to enter the flesh and the blood to spurt forth, after which the victim writhes, rolls her eyes and finally dies in agony! Ugh!
Of course, not all pictures are tragedies, nor are all tragedies bad. When the pictures of the Passion Play were run in the city where I live, it took an hour’s waiting in line to get in. This play is a trag¬ edy, but it is a great tragedy, teaches a great moral lesson, makes for an understanding and apprecia¬ tion of the most wonderful Book in the world, and, if one can get over the natural repugnance of seeing a jewel apart from its setting, gives thousands a chance to see Oberammergau who otherwise would never hear of it.
I believe I am old enough, hard, traveled and experienced enough to separate the false from the true in experience, life or books as well as the majority of my fellows. I know how motion-pictures are made, where they are made and for what purposes. Yet I am free to say that the play l once saw of a kidnapping of a little child made me ' fairly writhe, and I could hardly wait to get home from the theatre (it was the aftermath of a “Polite Vaude¬ ville” house) to my own little man to see that he, too, wasn’t a victim. The intense realism comes in the natural surroundings — so utterly different from the scenes of the best staged play ever put on the boards. When you see a ruffian on the stage drag a kidnapped child across a stage rock and then slam him up -against a stage door, made of can¬ vas and that yields to his weight,
TRADE DIRECTORY.
LICENSED FILM MAKERS.
Edison Mfg. Co., 10 Fifth Ave., New York City. 301 Wabash Aye., Chicago, Ill.
Essauay Film Mfg. Co., 501 Wells St., Chi¬ cago, Illinois.
Kalem Co., 131 West 24th St., New York City.
Lubin, S., 926 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. Melies, Geo., 204 E. 38th §t., New York City. 83 W. Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.
Pathe Freres, 41 W. 2oth St., New York City. 35 Randolph St., Chicago, 111.
2104 First Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
Selig Polyscope Co., 45 E. Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.
Vitagraph Co. of America, 116 Nassau St., New York City; 109 Randolph St., Chicago. Illinois.
ASSOCIATION RENTERS.
Pearce and Scheck, 223 N. Calvert St., Bal¬ timore, Md.
Bailey Film Service, 116 21st St., Birming¬ ham, Alabama.
Southern Film Exchange, 7% N. 20th St., Birmingham, Ala.
Theatre Film Supply, 2007 Second Avenue, Birmingham, Ala.
Howard Moving Picture Co., 564 Washing¬ ton St., Boston, Mass.
Miles Bros., Washington and Dover Sts., Boston, Mass.
New England Film Exchange, 011 Washing¬ ton St., Boston, Mass.
Montana Film Exchange, 41 N. Main St., Butte, Montana.
Buffalo Film Exchange, 13(4 Genesee St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Theatre Film Supply Co., 202 S. Tryou St., Charlotte, N. C.
Twentieth Century Optiscope Co., 122 La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.
National Film Renting Co., 02 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.
American Film Service, 125 Munroe St., Chicago, Ill.
Wm. II. Swanson, 100 Lake St., Chicago, Ill.
Standard Film Exchange, 79 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
U. S. Film Exchange, 59 Dearborn St., Chi¬ cago, Ill.
Inter-Ocean Exchange, 59 Dearborn St., Chi¬ cago, Ill.
Laemmle Film Service, 190 Lake St., Chi¬ cago, 111.
George K. Spoor & Co., 02 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.
Chicago Film Exchange, 120 E. Randolph St.., Chicago, Ill.
Schiller Film Exchange, 103 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.
Royal Film Service, 253 aL Salle St., Chi¬ cago, III.
Globe Film Exchange, 79 Dearborn St., Chi¬ cago, Ill.
Lake Shore Film & Supply Co., 314 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Eugene Cline, 717 Superior Ave., N. E., Cleveland, Ohio.
National Moving Picture Supply Co., 717 Superior Ave., N. E., Cleveland, Ohio.
Ohio Film Exchange, 16 East Broad St., Columbus, Ohio.
Southern Talking Machine Co., 347 Main St., Dallas, Texas.
J. D. Wheelan, 339 Main St., Dallas, Texas.
Chicago Film Exchange, 713 Lincoln Ave., Denver, Colorado.
Denver Film Exchange, 713 Lincoln Ave., Denver, Colo.
Globe Film Service Co., Nassau Block, Den¬ ver, Colorado.
Little & Pratt, Charles Building, Denver, Colorado.
Pittsburg Calcium Light & Film Co., 421 Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa.
Michigan Film & Supply Co., 82 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.
National Film Exchange Co., 100 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.
Leammle Film Exchange, 6th and Main Sts., Evansville, Ind.
O. T. Crawford Film Exchange Co., El Paso, Texas.
Loper Bros., 13b West Uth St., Fort Worth, Texas.
O. T. Crawford Film Exchange, 214 Levy Bldg., Houston, Texas.
Indianapolis Calcium Light Co., 114 S. Cap¬ itol Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
H. Ljeber Co., 24 W. Washington St., Indi¬ anapolis, Ind.
Twentieth Century Optiscope Co., Schukert Building, Kansas City, Kansas.
Yale Film Renting Co., 1116 Main St., Kan¬ sas City, Mo.
Stebbins Film Service Co., 1028 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Mitchell’s Film Exchange, 120(4 Main St., Little Rock, Ark.
Tally's Film Exchange, 554 So. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal.
Clune Film Exchange, 727 South Main St., Los Angeles, Cal.
American Film Service, 158 N. Main St., Memphis, Tenn.
Laemmle Film Exchange, 78 South Front St., Memphis, Tenn.
Western Film Exchange, 307 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.
Twin City Calcium & Stereoptieou Co., 720 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn.
Wm. H. Swanson Dixie Film Co., 620 Com¬ mercial Place, New Orleans, La.
Imported Film Supply Co., 708 Union St., New Orleans, La.
People’s Film Exchange, 126 University Place, New York City.
Imperial Film Exchange, 44 W. 2Sth St., New York City.
Alfred Weiss Film Exchange, 219 Sixth Ave., New York City.
The Actograph Co., 50 Union Square, New York City.
Empire Film. Co., 106 Fulton St., New York City.
Improved Film Supply, 34 E. 14th St., New York City.
Kiuetograph Co., 41 E. 21st St., New York City.
Harstn & Co., 138 E. 14th St., New York City.
Greater New York Film Supply, 24 Union Square, New York City.
Miles Bros., 259 Sixth Ave., New York City.
American Vitagraph Co., 116 Nassau St., New York City, N. Y.
Oklahoma Film Exchange, 221 W. California St., Oklahoma City, Okla.
20th Century Optiscope, 408 Eccles Building, Ogden, Utah.
Laemmle Film Service, 800 Brandies Build¬ ing, Omaha, Neb.
Chicago Film Exchange, 858-S60 Brandies Building, Omaha, Neb.
Philadelphia Film Exchange, 4229 N. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Electric Theatre Supply Co., 47 N. 10th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles A. Calehuff, N. E. corner 4th and Green Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
S. Lubin, 21 S. 8th St., Philadelphia. Pa.
Lewis M. Swaah, 338 Spruce St., Philadel¬ phia, Pa.
Columbia Film Exchange, 414 Ferguson Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
Pennsylvania Film Co., 403 Lewis Block, Pittsburg, Pa.
Duquesne Amusement Supply Co., 104 Blakewell Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Pittsburg Calcium Light Co., 124 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Davis Amusement Co., 347 Fifth. Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Talking Machine Co., 97 Main St. E., Ro¬ chester, N. Y.
Pittsburg Calcium Light & Film Co., 501503 Central Bldg., Rochester, N. Y.
Central Film & Supply Co., 702 Genesee St., Saginaw, Mich.
Trent & Wilson, 63-67 E. Third St. So., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Geo. Breck, 552 Grove St., San Francisco, Cal.
Novelty Motion Picture Co., 418 Turk St., San Francisco, Cal.
When writing Advertisers, kindly mention Tbe Film Index,
Miles Bros., 790 Turk St., San Francisco,
Edison Display Co., 1116 Third Ave,, Seat¬ tle, Washington.
O. T. Crawford Film Exchange Co., Gayety Theatre Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
Eugene Cline, St. Louis, Mo.
Western Film Exchange, 841 Century Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
Wm. H. Swanson St. Louis Film Co., 200 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo.
Superior Film & Supply Co., 621 Nasby Bldg., Toledo, Ohio.
Kent, Film Service, 218 Nicholas Building. Toledo, Ohio.
Toledo Film Exchange, 5 Spitzer Arcade, Toledo, Ohio.
Chicago Film Exchange, Westory Building, Washington, D. C.
Mullin Film Service, Solar Bldg., Watertown, N. Y.
GENERAL APPARATUS.
P. L. Waters, 41 E). 21st St., New York.
Carrick Electric Mfg. Co., 213 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, 111.
Cin'ti Calcium Light Co., 108 4th St., Cin¬ cinnati.
Globe Electric Co., 419 W. 42d St., New York.
New York Calcium Light Co., 410 Bleecker St., New York.
Philadelphia Calcium Light Co., 621 Com¬ merce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
St. Louis Calcium Light Co., 516 Elm St., St. Louis.
A. S. Aloe Co., 513 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
P. Bacigalupi, 1107 Fillmore St., San Franciseo, Cal.
Boswell Mfg. Co., 122 Randolph St., Chicago.
Empire , Slide Co., 131 W. 24th St., New York City.
Enterprise Optical Co., 154 Lake St., Chicago.
Erker Bros., 608 Olive St., St. Louis.
German-American Cinematograph and Film Co., 109 B. 12th St., New York.
M. E. Green, 228 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Harbach & Co., 809 Filbert St., Philadel¬ phia, Pa.
Kleine Optical Co., 52 State St., Chicago.
Rleine Optical Co:, 662 Sixth Ave., New York.
McAllister, 49 Nassau St., New \rork.
McIntosh Stereoptican Co., 37 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill;
N. Power, 117 Nassau St., New York.
Novelty Moving Picture, 418 Turk St., San
Francisco, Cal.
Novelty Slide Exchange, 221 E. 53d St., N. Y. C.
E. M. Martine, 29 Patterson St., Orange, N. ,J.
Chas. Beseler Co., 251 Centre St., New York.
Elite Lantern Slide, 207 W. 34th St., New York.
TICKET AND POSTER PRINTERS.
Aekerman-Quigley Co., Kansas City, Mo. American Ticket Co., Toledo, O.
Globe Ticket Co., 112 N. 12th St., Philadel¬ phia.
Hennegan & Co., Cincinnati, O.
Standard Roll Ticket Co., 181 Pearl St., New York.
Thrash-Lick Printing Co., Fort Smith, Ark. Weldom, Williams & Lick, Fort Smith, Ark.
SONG SLIDE AND BOOKING AGEN¬ CIES.
Len Spencer’s Lyceum, 41 West 28th St., N. Y.
SLOT MACHINES.
Mills Novelty Co., 11 S. Jefferson St., Chi¬ cago.
The National Novelty Co. (Inc.), 100 2d St., S., Minneapolis, Minn.
Rosenfield Mfg. Co., 587 Hudson St., N. Y. City.
Sloan Novelty & Mfg. Co., 932 N. Oth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Up-to-Date Slot Machine Co., 60 Centre St., New York.
Union Vending Machine Co., 133-135 Da Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Watling Mfg. Co., 133 W. Jackson, Chicago.
F. S. Zimmerman, 3 E. 11th St., New York.