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1812 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 22, 1917
W. II Productions Co. announces the sale of William S. Hart
as "The Two-Gun -Man" in "The Bargain" to Mike Rosenberg,
of Seattle, lor the states of Washington, Oregon, .Idaho, and
Montana. Mr. Rosenberg has also closed for the same territory
to secure the rights to the second Hart production now In
preparation entitled "The Bandit and the Preacher."
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General Manager C. E. Wallace, of the Cosmofotofilm Co.,
makes announcement of the sale of "I Believe." the George
Loane Tucker production starring Elizabeth Risdon, for the
territory of Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D. C, Delaware,
anil North Carolina to Sidney B. Lust, head of Super-Feature
Attractions, with headquarters in the National Capital. The
deal was closed on Tuesday. December 4.
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D. W. Russell, who handles the foreign market on Horsley
and Rankin & Lee productions, announces the sales of the
Rankin & Lee feature, "A Modern Lorelei," in which Tyrone
Power and Frances Burnham are co-starred, to Joseph Monat
for France and Switzerland; and to the North American Motion
Pictures, Inc., for Argentine, Chile. Uruguay, and Paraguay.
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The enthusiastic reception which "The Warrior" has met
with from the exhibitors throughout his territory has Induced
James R. Grainger, manager of the Allen Film Corporation,
of Chicago, 111., to contract for further rights to the spectacle
starring Maciste. To this end contracts were closed this week,
whereby Mr. Grainger becomes the owner of "The Warrior"
for the states of Kansas. Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, and
Arkansas. He originally purchased the territory embraced by
the states of Illinois, Michigan, Iowa. Nebraska. Ohio, and
Indiana for the seven-part feature exploiting the hero of
Cabiria from Messrs. Sawyer and Lubin, of General Enterprises,
Inc., which firm controls the territorial privileges to
the picture for the United States and Canada.
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W. H. Productions Co. announces the sale of the entire series
of their two-reel Hart productions for Colorado. New Mexico,
Wyoming, and Utah to the Foursquare Pictures Corporation, of
Colorado.
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The biggest state rights sale on record of the Ivan Film
Company the last several months, and perhaps the biggest state
rights sale of any concern in the country, is the one concluded
this week with V. H. Hodupp, of St. Louis, Mo.
The territories covered include Indiana, Missouri, Kansas,
Minnesota, North Dakota. South Dakota, northern Wisconsin,
and Illinois. The following are the subjects: Missouri and
Kansas, "Two Men and a Woman," "One Law for Both," "Sins
of Ambition," "Human Clay," "Married in Name Only," "Life
or Honor," and all future releases of Ivan Film Productions;
for Indiana and Illinois. "Married in Name Only." "Sins of
Ambition," "Human Clay," "Life or Honor"; for Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota, and northern Wisconsin, "Girl
Who Did Not Care," "One Law for Both," "Babbling Tongues,"
"Two Men and a Woman," "Married in Name Only," "Human
Clay," "Sins of Ambition," and "Life or Honor."
So impressed has been Mr. V. H. Hodupp with the product of
the Ivan people that he has already contracted for the next
two pictures now in work under the direction of William
Humphrey and F. J. Grandon.
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W. H. Productions Co. announces the sale of their two-reel
William S. Hart features for New York to the Dispatch Film
Service, New York City.
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Charles E. Christie announces that contracts have been
signed with the Consolidated Feature Film Company, Denver,
for the regular weekly release of Christie Comedies in the
territory of Colorado. Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.
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The territory for North and South Dakota, Minnesota and
Northern Winconsin has been sold by the Pathe Exchange on
"Today" and "The Mad Lover" to the Supreme Feature Film
Corporation of Minneapolis, F. W. Thayer, manager.
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The E. and H. Film Distributing Co.. Atlanta, Ga., P. A.
Engler, manager, advises that they have closed for the southern
rights for "Babbling Tongues," the Ivan Production. They are
handling this production in addition to the "Submarine Eye"
and the "Ne'er Do Well," Billy West Comedies, and Art Dramas.
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Hiller & Wilk, Inc., report the sale of "I Believe" (Cosmofotofilm
Co.) to Dawn Masterplays Co., Detroit, for Michigan.
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Hiller & Wilk, Inc., selling agents for the Paragon Film Corporation,
announce the sale of "The Whip" for Texas, Oklahoma
and Arkansas to the Yale Photoplay Co. of Texas.
STATE RIGHTS BUYERS!
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are due in New York. In this way we can render your
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STATE RIGHTS DEPARTMENT, MOVING PICTURE WORLD
516 Fifth Avenue New York City
Ivan Abramson Creates Own Firm
Well-Known Director and Producer Becomes Generalissimo
of Graphic Film Corporation—Offices in
Godfrey Building.
ON
Monday morning. December 3, the offices of the Graphic
Film Company were established at 729 Seventh avenue.
Though no preliminary announcements have antedated
this notice it is a safe prediction that this firm will quickly
grip the attention of the state rights buying field.
Ivan Abramson, long well known as the organizer of the
Ivan Film Productions, Inc.. of which he was until recently
its president, has severed his connections with that company,
and has accepted the presidency and director-generalship of the
Ivan Abramson
new organization formed for the utilization of his unique and
admitted abilities. As writer and director of "Enlighten Thy
Daughter," "One Law for Both," "Sins of Ambition," and twenty
other screen successes the Graphic head has created for himself
a wide reputation.
Mr. Abramson goes to the Graphic Film Corporation with a
determination to do even better than in the past. With three
new plays already in scenario form, each one of which he considers
better than any of his past efforts, he will soon begin
directing with a cast which he is choosing in the Graphic's
offices in the Godfrey building with care and skill.
The emblem of the Graphic concern will be an open eye. A
competent staff embracing all departments, be it office or studio,
is being engaged at the new offices on the seventeenth floor.
SECOND SERIES OF OFFICIAL ITALIAN WAR FILMS.
It was announced from the offices of the Fort Pitt Theater
Company of Pittsburgh, in the Times Building, last week, that
the second series of the official Italian war films, which show
the terrific fighting between the Italians and Austrians on the
Adige Plateau and the Piave River, which will reach America
some time this week, will be released for the United States
during January. The first series of official Italian war films,
known as "The Italian Battlefront," established such success
in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and
other large cities, that the production of the new pictures will
be watched with great interest.
Recent Italian reverses and the subsequent heroic stand of
the Italian armies in Northern Italy against the Austro-German
forces, have brought Italy's position in the present world
war strongly into the limelight. All films pertaining to Italy's
activities, therefore, will be watched with great interest in the
future.
William Moore Patch, president of the Fort Pitt Theater
Company, arrived in New York last week after an absence
of a fortnight, during which time he visited the West and
Middle West.
"RAFFLES" COUNTERACTS EFFECT OF TAXES.
Special productions, such as "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman,"
are the solution of the present war tax problems of the
exhibitors, according to Hiller & Wilk of New York, who have
handled some of the biggest state rights propositions on the
market during the last few years.
These state rights specialists explain that exhibitors, by
booking a big production once a month or perhaps even oftener,
are enabled to raise their admission price to a figure that will
allow them to assume the tax and, at the same time, make a
profit more than large enough to offset any possible loss
through the falling off of patronage when presenting regular
five-reel program pictures with the two reels of comedy and
the one-reel filler.