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1772 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 22, 1917 Gj2JaMEJ3le!JE^ : 5IiJUiJMBlti!JgJ^ Grinding the Crank With Thornton Fisher WHICH we present more pictures than prose. IN * * * Joe Farnham introduced everybody but the bellboy at the Screen Club Ball at * the Astor. * * The last survivor was seen coming home four days after. * * * Billy Quirk and Jules Bernstein were sent up for life to the Screen Club. The sentence was pronounced by Joe Farnham. * * * "Whaddaya mean 'British Tanks' 1" said a guy from a Fort Lee studio the other day. "I know a dozen American tanks wot'll cop the change when it comes to polishing their heels on a brass rail." * * * We hope the next time Jim McQuade, our Chicago letter writer and peerless golfer, bawls out a tray wrestler in a Chicago restaurant that the waiter won't be standing directly back of us. When James spoke to one recently it nearly caused the tip-grabber to spill a quart of consomme down between our vertebrae and Alco collar. * * * It is estimated that 3,941,762 scripts using the European war as a background were returned by the studios last week. A progressive director tried to borrow six battleships for a scene the other day, but for some reason or other was unable to obtain them. * * * An increase in the price of scenarios is threatened by the authors since the cost of postage has been increased. * * * The only sound the drummer has not been able to imitate is the noise of birds' wings while floating through the air. * * * And we don't believe that the noise of a battle is half so bad as the same drum-walloper would make us believe when' he starts to work on a hundred-and-fifty feet of a war film. We saw a crack-a-jack picture of the colonial period not a member of the. scrge.*^ cuj& Brings a> friend from peorio.. u-l, td the scrge.k cuob ball.' long ago, but somebody forgot to remove a telegraph pole in the background. F. J. Marion, Commissioner to Italy, Absorbing the National Flower, Spaghetti. If everybody in the picture industry received his due, the star would not be the only person to grab all the glory. What's the matter with poor old Joe Hinkledee, who develops the film. Some day in that veiled and vast future the billboards may announce the following: THE LOAN SHARK'S DAUGHTER. DEVELOPED BY THE KING OF DEVELOPERS, THAT GENIUS OF THE DARK ROOM, JOSEPH HINKLEDEE, SUPPORTED BY AN ALL STAR GANG OF FILM HANDLERS. Now you can spend the rest of the time looking around the picture gallery on this page. ^UoftHT
December 22, 1917 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1773 6 J jggrfl: fg s ^ ^ 1 ^g^T^T^ . g jjj gc. . . > .> || .^.^ •>. > »3-^ ^ °> -^ -?? yg_* jk .^? Motion Picture Educator Conducted by REV. W. H. JACKSON and MARGARET I. MACDONALD * gg jg ^q g» g. g» ^ g g> gj g-^g^g^g^_ » j » 5f »» •> » -^ -& j| gj ^ ^ •> ^ ^ ^ Interesting Educationals One Athletic Subject, Three Travel, One Sport, One Topical, One Agricultural, and One Industrial Subject. Reviewed by Margaret I. MacDonald. "The Womanly Art of Self-Defense" (Paramount-Bray). AN attractive subject appearing in the 97th release of the Paramount-Bray Pictograph strong suggests the usefulness to women of a knowledge of boxing. Miss Vera Roehm, one of our finest feminine exponents of boxing, describes before the camera the technique of each individual blow. Here we learn what is meant by the kidney blow, the solar plexis blow, and the various other important movements necessary to a proper knowledge of the art of self-defense. Miss Roehm also gives a forceful illustration of how with such a knowledge a woman may maintain her right to sit on a park bench unmolested. "Along the Varder" (Pathe). One of the most beautiful rivers running through European Turkey is the Varder. It is a winding stream running through a large territory of marshy country, and at various points is crossed by the quaintest of bridges. The Pathe Exchange presents some interesting and beautiful views of this river in a current release, which will be a welcome adjunct to a refined program. "Nikko in Snow Time" (Paramount-Holmes). In this offering many interesting views of the numerous temples in Nikko are shown, to which the religious Japanese make pilgrimages. One scene shows the celebrated monkeys of Nikko carved above a temple door, illustrating the precepts "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil." Mr. Holmes was particularly fortunate on this visit to Nikko, as it was late in the season and the pilgrims were already arriving, when, on April 10, there was a very heavy snow storm, and the next morning, all the temples, trees and other objects were thickly covered with snow, presenting a beautiful appearance. The condition of the weather, however, did not deter the pilgrims, who co'itinuecl to go from temple to temple; many of them walking through the snow barefooted. 'The Chain Gang" (Educational-Bruce). In addition to showing how pack trains are conveyed in safety over the steep heights of the mountains of Washington, Robert Bruce has given us in a one-reel picture entitled "The Chain Gang," a beautiful scenic treasure. Again the Great Dane, friend and property of Mr. Bruce, adds materially to the artistic atmosphere of a picture, trotting along behind the horses with easy canine nonchalance, the only privileged member of the four-legged group who is at liberty to wag his tail unhampered. By way of explanation the reader must know that the pack horse in the more dangerous passes of the mountains is forced to travel with his tail roped to the horse behind him. This mode of travel is all right, according to the horse's description of it in a sub-title, "provided your tail doesn't weaken." The picture, which is unusually entertaining as well as instructive, provides wonderful views of Mount Ranier and other mountains in that region, and lakes and rivers presenting delightful reflective studies. "The Sport of Sports" (Universal). An interesting exhibition of fancy skating will be found in the fifty-first issue of the Screen Magazine. Among those who exploit the difficulties of this health-giving sport are Bror Meyer, a well-known world chamoion. Emmy Bergfeldt of St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Frieda Whittaker. "Training Police Horses" (Universal). Much space in film has been given to the training of the policemen themselves, while little light has been shed on r 3 V •> ^ the training of the police horse. In the fifty-first release of the Screen Magazine we are given a splendid illustration of how this is done. Here we learn that a veterinary looks over each horse intended for the service, and not until he is pronounced perfectly sound is he admitted. Having been pronounced fit for duty he is put through a remarkable course of training. With a dummy jockey he is made to describe circles and various other forms of motion which teach him ease in obeying the rein. This illustration, well detailed, will be found very interesting. "The Pig Club" (Universal). A timely subject found in the fifty-first release of the Screen Magazine is an inspiration to the pig raiser. We learn through the subtitles that all over the country are being established among the young men and boys pig clubs intended to help out the meat situation during the war. These young agriculturists, according to the picture, take great pride in the rearing of a fine grade of pig flesh, groups of which are shown in the picture, which is attractively subtitled with the scenes arranged somewhat in story form. "Scientific Sweetmeats" (Paramount-Bray." In the ninety-seventh release of the Pictograph will be, found a nicely illustrated lesson on the making of sweetmeats by machinery. We learn that in some of the largest candy factories in the country delightfully sanitary methods are employed. In the plant in which the pictures were taken four million a day of a certain kind of confection of the "Life Saver" variety are turned out. For the making of this candy, sugar is purchased in car load lots, and emptied from the original barrel into the pulverizers, where it is reduced to a fine powder by great grinders, after which it is flavored, mixed, molded, counted and wrapped by automatic machinery. 'Me and My Dog' Masterpiece of Photography and Artistic and Appealing Construction—Moving Picture Essay by Robert C. Bruce. ONE of the most artistic of the Robert C. Bruce serir< is entitled "Me and My Dog," and is not only a beautiful tribute to man's most faithful friend, but glimpses beautiful bits of scenery in Montana, the Cascades of Washington, in the Rockies and Southern Alaska. The scenic part of the picture, however, has been treated merely as an artistic setting for the pictured wanderings of the man and his dog; and so impressive is this picture with its splendid sub-titles that it may find a place side by side with Maeterlinck's essay from "The Double Garden." entitled "My Friend the Dog." Both are beautiful appreciations of the canine kind, and each in its way is. a masterpiece. The picture abounds in silhouettes suggestive of the friendship between the man and his dog. It abounds also with sub-titles of strong appeal and splendid logic. For instance, "Here is the Motto of My Life Boat's Log, God Grant That I May Be Worthy of My Dog;" and later reminds the spectator who has become impressed with the silence, the solitude, and with the mutual interest between canine and man, that he who his never known the friendship of a dog has never felt the full measure of friendship. "Me and My Dog" might be classed as a moving picture essay delivered in nature's simplest and most beautiful language. It is a masterpiece of construction and photography. Funny Bobby Bumps Bobby and His Doer Gi'-e Entertaining Exhibition of An Unsuccessful Christmas Shopping Tour. OXE of the best loved cartoon characters i* funny little Bobby Bumps, who by way of explanation i«. along with his dog Fido. a pen creation of Earl Hurd of the Bray studios. Bobby has also the further distinction of being periodically tacked on to the educational reel known
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