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Show M m PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH ATTRACTIVE SCREEN5 ITS AMAZING HISTORY WOMEN 4 No One Took the Early Films First Movie Actors Worked for Seriously , Not Even the Inventors Joy of it or for the n By PROEHL HALLER JAKLON Five of the West Orange (N. these days can They Use the J.) Good morning, Mr. Edison. Olad to see you hack. I hope you are satisfied with the ktneto-phonograph- ." This was the remarkable demonstration which greeted Edison upon his return from the Paris The proud young man was William exposition. K. L. Dickson, an Englishman who live yenrs before hud come to study under the tutelage of the Wizard of Menlo Park. Edison had entrusted Dh kson with the development of certain Ideas, and this was what the young man hud to show fur his labors. The Motion Picture Is Born The birth of the motion picture Is marked From tills crude beby this demonstration. ginning, in less than thirty-seveyears It has Hllniiusl the Importanee of u major industry, providing employment for more than a million persons throughout the world, and giving entertainment to more than 100,000,00(1 persons weekly In ew ry clvili.ed and many uncivilized lands. Following the formula that the time to write history is while It Is happening, an American, intimately acquainted with the film luditry, lms produced, ufler five years of careful, intelligent e research, n history which hears the till', "A Million and One Nights: the History of the Motion Picture." lie Is Terry Hamsaye, former newspaper man, screen editor and executive. The original edition, of which there west1 only 327 sets, each hearing the autograph of Thomas A. Edison, and selling for $75, was launched by Simon & Schuster, those two young men whose success wilh the cross-worpuzzle hooks startled the publishing world In 192 i. Mr. llamsaye set out about six years ago In search of his material. The pursuit took him to 8ll sections of the United Statos and many pnrts of Europe. Dhkson was found living In retirement In France, lie Interviewed the if-- Inventor of Instantaneous photography on Cape Cod. In it? he talked with more than 400 individuals who contributed to the growth and development of the art. Court and corporation records were made to give up their stories, while letters and original papers were still available, as they may not be to n later historian. starling as far hack as he could go, Mr. Rum-sa.vtraces his picture history from Aristotle to lie shows us the camera obscurn, the Edison, magic lantern, Stnmfers whirling disks, the spinning coin of Ilerscliel, but the two most Important developments, he says, were the camera by Daguerre, the Frenchman, In 1829, and the inception of photography In 1S00. v n e e To Settle a $25,000 Wager The credit for the discovery of Instantaneous photography Is given to John D. Isaacs, a civil engineer, working for Leland Stanford, In 1872. Stanford maintained that artists were all wrong In their pictures of horses lu action. Their legs were shown In unnatural positions, he declared, and made a bet of $25,000 that he was right. He engaged a San Francisco photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, who later received the glory, to catch a trotting horse in action by employing a battery of cameras. Muybridge failed. Isaacs, knowing something about photography, realized that the lens shutters then in ue were too slow for the job, and so he attached rubber hands with a hundred-pounpull to the shutters. This gave an exposure of one two thousandth of a second and "caught ilie motion of the horse. Muybridge, who was the photographer, gained the fame. Isaacs went on about his own business, attaining success, and rarely referred to the Incident. J.aler the task performed by the battery of cameras was done much more etlicientl.v with a single camera, a spring taking the place of the rubber Bami. In 1SS0 I.elMnee, n Frenchman living In the United States, used sensitized strips of paper fn place of the old fashioned wet plate, nnd soon after Oarhutt substituted celluloid for the paper. d a photograph supply man of Rochester, N. Y produced much thinner celluloid strips and put them on the market In the form of dry plates for his kodaks. Dickson, In September, 1SS9, bought a small supply for use in the klneto-sneopas Edison called his new device. Edison sold the exploitation rights to this device fo a firm consisting of Norman C. Raff, a western capitalist; Frank Lombard, president of the North American Phonograph company, nnd Frank young business man. In Gammon, a Dim, they marketed state and foreign rights to their toy. Edison, at his West Orange laboratory, agreed to produce the pictures. Edison obtained a patent on his klnetoscope in 1S91. Learning that foreign patents would cost about $150, he told his attorney that they were not worth it. A patent more or less meunt nothing to Edison. He failed also to protect his Invention for a disk record for his phonograph, preferring the cylinder type. How many millions were lost because of this neglect can only be guessed at. actor in the world, acThe first motion-pictur- e cording to Mr. Itanisayes findings, was one Fred Ott, a mechanic in Edisons laboratory. He dressed In absurd clothing and made funny Eastman, e, of a Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor of the motion film, the camera and the Klnetoscope the technological foundation of the art of the motion picture. (Courtesy Simon and Schuster.) faces. Soon vaudeville actors began to appear. A young dancer liumed Dennis wus among them. She Is now Ruth St. Denis. The first motion-picturemporium was opened April 14, 1894, at No. 1155 Erondwuy, New York. Ten peephole klnetoscopes attracted the public. It must he remembered that pictures on the screen ns we know them had not yet made their appearance. All movies were shown to one person at n time, through the peephole. This, of course, limited the patronage. The magic lantern, on the other hand, for several hundreds of years had si ill pictures to entire audiences. picture e On the Screen at Last Why not combine the magic lantern and the klnetoscope? This question stirred, almost simultaneously, the minds of several men, including Edison. In Chicago Edwin Hill Amct pondered the idea; In Virginia Irof. Woodvill Latham played with It; in England Robert Uriese Greene 6tarted working, and in France two Indrument makers, Louis mid Auguste Lumiere, set about to put motion pictures on the screen. Out of all this effort grew litigation which In one form or another was going strong until as lute as 1911, and may still have a belated nppeurance. ' on some court dockets. Mr. ltamsaye says that the Lumiere projector made Its dehut In March, 1895, under the name of the cinematograph. Several weeks later Professor Latham, In America, demonstrated Ills projector, and only a short time later Aniet made his showing. In generul, nil these devices were the same, with minor exceptions In the perforation of the film nnd In method of winding nnd rewinding. These precipitated legal buttles In which were spent millions of dollars In costs, only to end, ns a rule, In compromise and combination of the competing parties. Thus the projector, the last vital development of motion pictures, was ready to revolutionize the world of amusement ns early us 1 895. The first public screen showing was made April at the old Foster & IMul music hell, in Twenty-thirstreet, New York. These were simple subjects, dancers, acrobats and the like anything with nctlou In It. The Idea that any actor would want money for his efforts never occurred to the early film makers. The publicity they got out of It was held to be a Spanish Carmenclta, ample remuneration. dancing star, performed ; Annabelle Moore put on a serpentine ; Sundovv and other notables of the time nil worked on this basis of payment. 20, 1810, d Censorship Begins Cutback The Life of an American Fireman, " produced In 1902, was one of the first pictures to utilize that very effective device, the cutback. It showed a child in a burning bouse, with the brave fireman on his way. In 1903 Adolph Zukor, a Chicago furrier, arrived In New York to collect $3,000 which a friend had borrowed to start a penny arcade. It was not prospering, and Zukors efforts to save his money put the furrier Into the penny arcade business, and later led to his meeting with Marcus Loew, another penny arcadr. By 1900 Zukor was a theater proprietor. Famous Players-Lask- y corporation, the world's biggest movie concern, resulted, while Loew Is head of the company, a close rival. Carl Laemmle, clothing store clerk of Oshkosh, WIs., In the winter of 1905 confided to a Chicago advertising agent that he was tired of the clothing business. They talked over the possibilities of the movies. Finally he opened a theuter In 1906. A few months later he started a film exchange and sold prints to other showmen. Out of his quent efforts to organize the Independent Interests In their fight against Edison came the Universal Pictures. Both Laemmle and Cochrane, the advertising nmn, made fortunes. In 1907, the censorship pot, long simmering, boiled over. Hamsaye recalls for us the Chicago Tribune editorial, "The Five Cent Theater," which damned the nickelodeon up and down bill. At that time Chicago had 119 such shows. They were blamed for Juvenile crime, and a list of pictures, to which objection was taken, was printed. The same year New York officials became show in the city. aroused and dosed every Exhibitors protested, there was a compromise, and us u result the National Board of Censorship was formed. rlhe first state to pass a censorship law Wus Pennsylvania In 1912. j e, Corhett-I-itzsiinmon- e need It, said Mrs. Giraffe. Now If I am going to have a dear little girl giraffe to look after I take a longer time getting ready for her arrival than I do If a little boy giraffe Is coming. "Of course, continued Mrs. Giraffe, "there may be people who would not think the little girl was so very little, or the little boy so very little, but what mother wouldnt call her baby a little one? "What mother wouldn't do that? Mis. Giraffe ate some clover and hay, took a nap and when she awoke she said : "I am so tired of people thinking I am queer looking. I think they are just as queer looking if they really want to know it. "It seems perfectly, absolutely absurd to me to see people with their heads so near their shoulders and with uo nice necks at all. "But I dont suppose they ever think of the way I may regard them. I dont suppose they ever wish their. heads were further away from their shoulders. But when they think Pm funny they realize that I, from my giraffe point of view, have a perfect right to think they are funny. And every reason to think so, too. They think my neck is so very, very funny. "Its not funny! "It's a neck thats all. "They, the people, dont know what a real neck Is like when they think their necks are all right. "But then I suppose it Is ignorance, continued Mrs. Giraffe, who A beautiful woman Is always There are many types mired. The cinema, It seems, had been in bad odor, more or loss, from the start. Its appeal. Its critics asserted, was mainly tp the rough element. Then, too, followed the theater disasters Films In which many persons lost their lives. often caught fire In the crude projection machines, and many persons feared to enter such theaters because of the reported danger to their lives. Everyone hud heard of the Chartty Bazar fire in 1S97 at Baris. Nearly 180 persons, among them many French nobles, had lost their lives when n projector lamp exploded. Prejudicial feeling immediately arose to impair seriously the status of the screen in the minds of the upper classes. "With the establishment throughout the country of many theaters there was created a demand for more and better tilms. People were tiring of the Exhibitors old run and hop variety of subjects. wanted story pictures, and the producers' problems began anew. The motion picture had no respectability then, ami actors were scornful. It wus necessary to seek out the hungry ones and tactfully suggest work In the pictures." Actors who met on the movie stages of Edison, Vitagraph and Blograph in those days kept their film shame a secret. It was the accepted practice of the time to impress the actors into service ns carpenters, scene painters, and the like. Florence Turner, an early favorite, when not acting was mistress of the wardrobe. But when Maurice Costello went over to Vitagraph from Edison a precedent was set up. "I am an actor and I will act but I will not build sets and paint scenery. He won on Ills dignity. Enter Charlie and His Pants Charles Chapman made $)is screen debut In His big pants and curious gait caught the eye of Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture company, who strolled Into a theater just In tune to see the act go on. Kessel offered him Charlie re$75 a week to appear in the films. fused it, as he did a subsequent offer of $100 a w et k. Finally the ante was raised to $150 and he Ills first picture was made at Los accepted. Angeles for Keystone. It was called the Kids Auto Races. and made a hit. Other Chapman bepictures followed, and the little Englishman was known. name Later his before came famous his name was changed to Chaplin. Of the Inter developments in the industry, the most significant was the effort to avoid censorship and regulation that might seriously interfere In 1917 a wild party for Fatty with progress. Arbuckle in Boston drew unfavorable attention both to the players and film officials who attended it. In 1921, Arbuckle with other movie people smashed into a screen scandal. The divorce of Mary Bickford from Owen Moore In Nevada was another cause of scandal because of her early marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, an actor jusi winning public favor. The producers felt that something had to be done. They formed an of motion picture producers, and association chairhead of It M ill Hays, one-tim-e the at placed man of the Republican national committee, and postmaster general. Hays tackled his Job seriously, and Is now the screens most powerful figure when It comes to deciding on what nmy be shown. He can kill any story and can exile any actor from the screen And he has used this power. Mr. Hamsaye has brought his fascinating history down to the separation of the producing department from the exhibiting department of the FaBalaban & Katz of mous Players organization. Chicago took over the theaters. On June 5, 1926, Famous Flayers bought them back. This present article mentions only scattered chapters of Ram-sayegleanings from the eighty-on- e work. For one Incident set down here there are scores of equally interesting ones gathered In the two volumes. The one thing about this history which appeals perhaps more than any other single quality Is the attitude of the historian. His face was not long and stern when he wrote. He saw the human side of this comedy-dramHe had a twinkle In his eye. 's a. ad- beauty. 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Weakness, loss of weight, What She Really Wanted I'm sorry, dear, but I went into six stores and they didnt have any dress goods to match the sample you gave me, said the husband as he sank into a chair. Fine! Thats just what I wanted to know. M.v dress will be unique ! Sure Relief 6 Bell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief 'ELL-AM- S Appealed to Rough Element 1913. About this time came the first censorship. The Edison company had produced a piece in which a dunce made Dolorlta put on a hoochle-koochlknown to America at the Chicago worlds fair. Klnetoscopes by this time, In 1S9C, were fairly well distributed, nnd there were several doing business on the Atlantic City board walk. Somebody took a peep at Dolorlta, became shocked at her performance, nnd promptly wrote a letter to the authorities. The result was that the owner of the establishment wrote the New York office, "Send me another Him. The police say that Dolo-rlta'- s dance Is too strong. As early ns is; id the movies, not yet known by that title, of course, began to attract the attention of scores of men who saw the opportunities for Their Imaginations had been fired money-makinby such exploits as the filming, In 1897, of the s figlit at Reno, which ran 1 3,(HX feet, nnd was shown at the old New York Academy of Music, the first special showing of a picture. The same yenr one Alexander Victor, a theater magician, opened the first motion-picturwith 2(X) chairs in It. This was In Newark, N. J and admission was 25 cents. It soon failed. The war with Spain helped boost the new art. Here was an opportunity to get real action. The Vitagraph company, formed by Jimmy lllackton, a New York reporter, Albert E. Smith, a spirit cabinet exhibitor, nnd one Fop Rock, a Harlem billiard hall keeper, concocted a picture called In Chicago Tearing Down the Spanish Flag. George K. Spoor, news dealer by day and ticket vender by uight In a cheap vaudeville house, and Edwin II. Amct, the Inventor of one kind of projector, showed the destruction of Cervera's fleet Doth of them were fakes. The flag was "torn down on a lot In Brooklyn, and the "fleet was maneuvered In a washtub at the Waukegan (111.) studio of Spoor and Amet. This was the day of the film pirate. If anyone made a picture which attracted the public, others immediately would copy It. The Industry had lured the unscrupulous entrepreneur as well as those who lived by higher ethics, and where money Is at stake anything Is likely to happen. One company produced the story of the crucifixion, and another promptly copied It and "bootlegged It to not unwilling exhibitors. The status of general production of pictures for vufifiPf "Girls require more fussing, they require more attention and when I say they require It I mean that they Bio-grap- h full-fledg- saying: d be measured by a review 124 The Pretty Stenographer; or Caught la the Act 26 ft. An elderly but gay broker le seated at his desk dictating to his pretty stenographer. Hs stops In the progress of his letter and bestows a kiss on the not unwilling girl. As he doea his wlfs enters. She Is enraged. Taking her husband by the ear she compels him to get on hts knees. The pretty stenographer bursts Into tears. of Thomas Alva Edison buzzed excitement on the morning of October 0, 1881). Two men, one young, the other older, were keenly Interested In a black wooden box about five feet high. Near the top was a peephole, and the young man, with an air of triumph, urged the older man to peer Into the small opening. Inside on arc light sputtered. There was a noise of machinery, and there come Into view a transparent strip of celluloid bearing the prints of many photographs. As the strip began to move, the photogruphs came to life. It was a moving picture of the younger man, wulking, smiling, hat In hand, approaching as if to extend a gaeetlng. As he came nearer there was heard the phonographic reproduction of the young mans voice, George ft Be Attractive You Must Be Healthy MRS. GIRAFFE catalogue, then current: ROOM wet-plat- Bonner Mary Graham wwr c&Y&cfr Free Advertising years ago there were no moving t movie Industry ranks fourth Today pictures. In the United States, with an invested capital of $1,500,000,000, employing more than 500,000 per. sons In production, distribution and exhibition, with 60,000,000 persons paying from ten cents to two dollars for weekly admissions to theaters, targe and small, dotting towns and cities throughout the country. Thirty-seve- If You Would FOR INDIGESTION 25$ and 75$ Pkgs.Sold Everywhere FB VEB YEAES 2 I , Think They Are Just as Queer." wasn't really so very clever or smart herself. Yes, she went on, I suppose it Is Ignorance and they dont know any better. At least they have enough sense to stare at me and gaze at me and admire my great and tall beauty, my markings, my legs, my neck. "But when they're admiring me, I do wish they would not laugh at me. For It only makes me think them so foolish and Im sure they dont want the stupid giraffe to have such a poor opinion of their good sense. Just because they arent used to seeing me around corners and meeting me at the market or at the general store, or because they don't see me Sitting on stools drinking soda waters s they say they do, they think Im In unusual sight, a very unusual sight. "Well, I am. But I'm unusually handsome and not unusually funny. Im generous as to neck and legs. Theyre very stingy with neck and legs. And as for sitting and sipping soda water through a straw, and taking rides in boats and rowing and diving head first Into the swimming pools and all the absurd things they do well they shouldnt talk about Mrs. Giraffe. They should think of how they appear to us. That's what they should think about. But do they? No, they dont seem to at all, not at all. 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