Show COLOR AND SOUND fOR PICTURES Two o Things Necessary for Permanent Popularity II V V of Movies V V ALREADY FIND WAY I INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS I Museums Also Storing Reels as Records of Public V Events I IV I s BY BY FREDERIC FREDERIO J. J HASKIN n no other business perhaps is there I nuch speculation as to what the fate fure fa fu re te holds in hi store for it as in thc the picture business Pleasured in rm fm of dollars taken in and paid o out t. t terms lernis erms of men meu employed in terms of t ons catered to the moving movin picture USIneS sInes 1 is b by all aU odds tb the largest coin coin- social ecial amusement eI e ever ev evet T men meri who in it own And yet vet are of of it are arc not agreed as to what hire ure will ili bring to it Vt t j is held in the thc opinion of far see see- men nien in iu the business that two more of mechanical al invention are to place the moving picture bend bend beul be- be nd ul even the remotest fear feaT of ultimate Taster aster ster The first of these is already V sight sight namely namely an n apparatus th that t ji I 1 reproduce pictures in the ors of nature instead of in n the dead ead lite ite and aed black of the photograph or ore e 3 mi miserable artificiality of the hand sainted sated films The h process s V produces in moving pictures on the flen een en the natural colors of scenes ta taL tain L in lU the open where here there are aIe are great greata a ses es of color to be le seen It It is not Dot yet ret 50 so o successful ill in interiors or atEle at ate e Ele Ce range but there is little doubt t t it will yet vet overcOme all these ies iI's its its- taking aking Color Pictures V pictures are arc taken in inIS ini inis i IS is manner The Tue photographs are taU taD tain ta ta- ta- ta in U D with a camera amera specially constructed pictures at ordinary rate two thirty per second instead of six six- Ten en n. n In front of the lens is revolved V olor filter made like a three blade peller of f three wings of celluloid on ono one re red ouo blue and one oue Jow the low the t I three b re primary C colors en en the t films ar made th they v are an ex- ex x- x like any other tb r tH ns i in app appear appear- e. e Theu beu fhe JH he pictures art are projected an- an r if r color filter niter of the l same kind is roh-ed roh in n front of the lens of the rejecting machine Thus Tinis one one- picture one picture r thrown u on ou screen creen all re red the theist thet st i-st t all blue and the next all nfl yellow Jio i 10 pictures are changed so rapidly at the eye eve is IS deceived lec e wed ana anil all the ob- ob t ts s in in the picture appear appeal to bo 10 in fir ir ir natural color coor combinations or ore orue ke ue e three pl primary mary colors It is the the Tee Bree process of color plate print print- 7 adapted for the moving pictures P turcs That Talk iThe The second cond thing thine to be he de desired ired from he ne inventors of the future is is a satis- satis tor combination of the raph and th phonograph to the end ond at the pictures on the screen of the dimensional theatre not only will love oye but will talk Attempts have hw been made to ze th photographic film and aud the pho pho- grap i record so as to produce pr talk talk- ng z pictures but as s yet et these e have met with with but indifferent success The necessity of changing linders linders or disks disks' on the t talking m- m ma- ma iTle ne more frequently than the reels oh f moving moin picture machine machine- together ph th h the n necessary sar ees-sar interruptions in u the D. D urse of the moving picture occasioned T the intermittent m of tIle rii nl iii have thus far defeated successful V The hope of the future appears to lie liethe lieV the V the possibility of a machine which II take tae the pictures and make the thel l' l phonographic record on films to be Jay ayed d off simultaneously The fact liat l t. t the photographic film must have haven in an n intermittent motion and that the film must be he in In exact me with the picture projected ap- ap ars to raise obstacles obstacle n th the way of efforts in iu his direction ut the prophets amon- amon among the moving nH pI ture tur e men refuse to believe e that any- any ng Ing is impossible That Opposed V wo or three years ago th there re Was was deed d ed consider considerable ble cause for pessi- pessi ssi ism sin with respect to the future of eying pictures It is true that the tile bowmen had then appeased the th on of the greater reater number of retail en len by abolishing th the phonographs at ate atif if e entrances es to the theatres and by finishing 1 the barker barler with his m mega- mega ga- ga tone one to oblivion n but at the time ver-time w hen en this menace from the retail reta I ants was removed a much more dangerous dan dan- dan dan- erous opposition was encountered This new opposition came came- oddly pOI sough plough h. h from the churches and anel the tie sa- sa l ons Both objected to the moving mowing pic- pic re ire show the the saloon because its busi- busi ess jess was being hurt in dollars and aud eats and aDd the church largely because Cit it ad tad not as v vet t studied the problem lion hen came caine the national board loard of 11 and ant an era era- of marked improve improve- exit Int in m the moral tone of ijo pictures now DOW comparatively little n to movin moving pictures is is heard among or social socia workers and most mosto o ot what is heard conies comes from men who member ember the moving picture show as ss s it itis its is s four years ago ato and aud who vho have haye not noten nots s en the pictures lately Now SNow that in the math main the church nd social workers have determined to l elp jelp uplift the tIme motion picture and to tose toso jise so se it jt is an instrument for good rather an to oppose and antagonize it not noto 0 o much is 18 heard beard from these thEs quarters J n opposition to the tha the movies as they fro a 0 known amon among the street gamins Where Saloons Lose LOlle Out V Much more snore serious in a strictly Business way is is the enmity of the reail retail re- re tall tail ail liquor dealers who have in some lome harassed and hampered the mor- mor ng picture exhibitors by the time us use UM of political influence The saloons object t moving movin pictures because the theatres I ow get r t nickels that used to go IO for Continued on page 4 COLOR AND SOUND FOR PICTURES Continued from front pagel beer cen Th The worl working nA man nine who Who formerly f Was was wa wont to rep repair ir after his bis bs to the poor mn club to shrink two or glasses of beer now now takes his rife rife-anil child and ana ROC goca to the moving picture piCture sh show w There foes cart can be he 10 no doubt bitt what the wife the and caI child approve tim the ho change Another feature of new but rapid development Wherein the moving mavinA pic pie pie- tune ture ure is the tho saloons in in com com petition for in the noonday rest The Tue lunch is JS now now a Tush sn hour boon lour for the moving picture theatres theates A- A i maD 0 has lit il n districts A vI twenty wenty or thirty minutes i s to loaf dunin dun dur- in tile the lunch hour now drops drop drops into a moving int pic picture t re show where ho he act actually actually- and is amused and entertained Formerly he walk walked d about the streets stood toed corner corer and of ten drank a glass or hlo two two-of of beer partly party because Ito ho jo just had to have han something to tolo 10 doH lo Most Democratic of Shows Perhaps the moving picture picure show mornA finds its is' is greatest assurance of th the fu fu- tore urcin in its Hs inherent democracy It I is is the he most democratic form fon of at entertainment entertain entertainment ment ever lu known own A newspaper man standing standing- in front of a certain cent 5 theatre on Pennsylvania Pennsylvania avenue in in Washington t n once mice sawa saw a justice of f the supreme court Murt of the the United States a United States senator an Italian street et laborer a Chinese laundryman and a a- a street car ear conductor go into the show in the order named fO The newspaper news pews pews- p paper per man followed This particular supreme court justice formed the ing picture habit babit because be was im importuned importuned im im- im by his old year year old granddaughter grand daughter u ht r to take her to see the pictures pic pieS tures He lie did it once and became a arl rl regular lar The Tle Pennsylvania av avenue nue incident is duplicated in essentials daily daiy in in thousands thousands thou thou- sands of movin moving picture h. h out the United States Motion oton pictures appeal alike alke to young and old to the cultured and the crude to the educated anti and the he ignorant in short to all sorts sort and conditions of men If If those who ire ate responsible for the course taken in in inthe the commercial control of the business will wi but recognize their obligation to society as well wel as their opportunity to tomake tomake tomake make money they will Wll so order the character of the films placed plated on the market as al to increase their patronage and at the same time disarm their enemies The future of the Moving ovin picture business depends upon the wisdom wisdon wis wis- wis dom don of the m moving picture men As Records Thus Thus far the future of the moving picture has bas been considered only in its it relation to its is amusement and business features What will bo be the use of movin moving pictures as wj instruments of instruction in and as historical records s cannot be surmised Already the great greal eat museums of the world are storing away in their vaults for the use of future future fu fu- fu ture generations reels of films showing showier in in movin moving pi pictures tures the great events ol olour of our time It I has been proposed that in the T nub nub- lie He schools of the tIle city of New York every lesson in geography shall be ac ac- ac companied by moving moin picture illustrations illustrations tons to fix fx in in the mind of the pupil pupi pupi the actual characteristics of the country coun coon try about which he be is studying 1 It 1 was ar argued ed in support of this ulan plan that tha the use of moving pictures in school would at once onee and forever put an em end to that classic amusement of boyhood known as playing hooky These are arc but SU suggestions The moving moy- moy in ing picture as we know it is only fifteen fifteen ff teen years vears old ol and if it shall half a as much in the next fifteen years ears as a it i has in the past it will wi go So far beyond the imagination of the world of 1911 Tomorrow POULTRY BUTTER AND A EGGS |