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MARE AND PROJECT YOUR
OWN MOVIES
By MERWIN DELAWAY
Compact and Plain, but Serviceable
This photoplay camera, retailing at slightly less than
thirty dollars, takes extraordinarily good pictures.
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f\ in movies or in photography
/_jk has a real chance to follow his
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at the same time get enjoyment
from the other interest.
A complete outfit, including
raw film, camera, and projector,
is now being manufactured
and offered to the
public at a price which
makes those who bought
outfits in times gone by, think
that Millennium has come.
The new outfit is the invention
of a former Edison
Service man who had contributed
to the mechanism
of motion-picture work before
developing the present
home apparatus. It has been
designed and is built solely
for amateur use, being made
"fool proof" and almost
automatic, so far as adjustments
are concerned. In
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fact, it is quite as simple as the matter
of amateur photography; turn the crank
to take the picture, turn it again in another
machine to show the picture—and
that is all there is to it.
The cost of the motion-picture camera
always has been the stumbling-block in
the way of developing a popular-priced
movie outfit, and it is this problem
which the inventor, responsible for the
new apparatus, has solved so happily.
Some idea of his success may be gained
from considering the fact that the best
grades of professional camera—those
used for high-grade studio work and big
out-of-door scenes—cost from $1,100 to
$2,000, while the medium-priced instrument
used in news work—an invention
by this same man, incidentally—was
brought out originally for $325. The
camera in this new amateur outfit is
priced at $29.75!
The instrument can be sold at this
"Yes, Jessie. That Was Your
A library of films such as this goes a long, long way toward making life
yourself and your playmates, and more sentiment in seeing the animated
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