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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH ATTRAGTIVE ITS AMAZING No One Took the Early Films WOOED First Movie Actors Worked for Joy of it or for .the CERTIFIED STOCK Seriously, Not Even the Inventors Free Advertising Thirty-seveyears ago there were no moving pictures. Today tto movie Industry ranks fourth In the United States, with an Invested capital of 1, 900,000,000, employing more than 600,000 pen. sons In production, distribution and exhibition, with 60,000,000 persons paying from ten cents to two dollars for weekly admissions to theaters, large and small, dotting towns and cities throughout the country. n i 0 wl C ' Persons who buy baby chicks should see to it that they are from tested which affords stock, protection against bacillary white diarrhea, advises the New Jersey Agricultural station. Otherwise a Experiment great many of the chicks are likely either to be dead on arrival or to begin to die soon afterwards. Many times the loss of shipped chicks la said to be caused by chilling, overeating, or early feeding, when In reality It la due to bacillary white ( By PROEHL HALLER JAKLON They Use the Cutback Five of the West Orange (N. J.) of Thomas Alva Edison buzzed ROOM excitement on the morning of October Two men, one young,, the other 6, 1SS0. older, were keenly Interested In a black wooden box about live feet high. Near the top was a peephole, und the young man, with an air of triumph, urged the older mun to peer Into the small opening. Inside an arc light sputtered. There was a noise of machinery, and ther camo Into view a transparent strip of celluloid bearing the prints of many photographs. As the atrip began to move, the photographs came to life. It was a moving picture of the younger nmn, walking, smiling, hat In hand, approaching as If to extend a greeting. As he came nearer there was heard the phonographic reproduction of the young man's voice, saying: "Good morning, Mr. Edison. Glad to see yon back. I hope you are satisfied with the The Life of an Amerieun 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 house, 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 Zukor's efforts to save his money put the furrier Into the penny arcade business, and later led to his meeting with Marcus Loew, another penny arender. I.y 1900 Zukor was a full-fledg- Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor of the motion picture film, the camera and the Klnetoscope tho technological foundation of the art of the motion picture. (Courtesy Simon and Schuster.) faces. Soon vaudeville actors began to appear. A young dancer named Dennis was among them. She Is now Ruth St. Denis. The firm motion-picturemporium was opened April 14, 1894, at No. 1155 I.roudway, New York. Ten peephole kiuetoseopes attracted the public. It must be remembered that pictures on the screen as we know them hud not yet made their appearance. All movies were shown to one person at a time, through the peephole. This, of course, limited the patronage. The magic lantern, on the other hund, for several hundreds of years bad fhown to entire audiences. This was the remarkable demonstration which greeted Edison upon his return from the Paris exposition. The proud young man was William K. L. Dickson, an Englishman who live years before had come to study under the tutelage of the Wlznrd of Menlo Park. Edison had entrusted Dickson with the development of certain ldcns, and this was what the young man had to show for his lubors. e The Motion Picture Is Born n two-volum- if e wet-plat- 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 Inland Stanford In 1872. Stanford maintained that artists were all wrong In their pictures of horses In action. Their legs were shown In unnatural portions, he declared, and made a bet of $23,000 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 fulled. Danes, knowing something about photography, realized that the lens shutters then In use were too slow for the Job. and so lie attached rubber bands with a hundred-pounpull to the shutters. This gave an exposure of one of a second and "enught" the 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. Enter the task performed by the lmttery of cameras was done much more efficiently with a single camera, a spring taking the place of the rubber bands. In ISM) LeErlnce. a Frenchman living In the United States, used sensitized strips of paper in place of the wet plate, and soon after Carbutt substituted celluloid for the paper. George Eastman, 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, lS8t. bought a smull supply for use In the klneto-scopas Edison called his new device. Edison cold the exploitation right to this device to a Ann consisting of Norman C. Raff, a western capitalist; Frank president of the North American Phonograph company, and Frank young business nmn. In Gammon, a turn, they marketed stnte ami foreign rights to their toy. Edison, at his West Orange laboratory, agreed to produce the picture. Edison obtained a patent on hi kin otoscope In 1801. Learning that foreign patent would cost about 1150, ha told hi attorney that they were not worth It. A patent more or les meant nothing to Edison. He failed also to protect his Invention for a disk record for hla phonograph, preferring the cylinder type. Uow many millions were lost because of thl neglect can only be guessed at actor In tho world, acThe first motion-picturMr. to Ramsaye'a finding, wa one Fred cording He laboratory. Ott, a mechanic In Edison dressed In absurd clothing and tnoda funny d th e, d e y er klneto-phonogrnph- ." The birth of the motion picture Is marked officially by this demonstration. From this crude beginning, In less than thirty-seveyears It has attained the Importance of a major Industry, providing employment for more than a million persons throughout the world, and giving entertainment to more than 100,000,000 persons weekly In every civilized and many uncivilized lunds. Following the formula that the time to write bistory Is while It Is happening, an American, Intimately acquainted with the film Industry, has produced, after five years of careful, intelligent e research, a history which bears the title, A Million and One Nights : the History of the Motion Picture. lie Is Terry Itamsaye, former newspaper man, screen editor and executive. The original edition, of which there weae only 827 sets, each bearing the autograph of Thoinus A. Edison, and selling for f75, was launched by Simon & Schuster, those two youug men whose success with the books startled the publishing world In 1024. Mr. . Itamsaye set out about six years ago In search of his material. The pursuit took him to all sections of the United States and many parts of Europe. Dickson was found living In retirement In France. He interviewed the I Inventor of Instantaneous photography on Cupe Cod. In aP he talked with more than 400 Individuals who contributed to the growth and development of the art Court und corporation records were made to give up their stories, while letters and original papers were still available, as they may not be to a later historian. Starling as far ba k as he could go, Mr. Ram-say- e traces his picture history from Aristotle to Edison. lie shows us the cumera olucura, the mnglc lantern, Stainfer's whirling disks, the spinning coin of Hcrschel, but the two most Important developments, he says, were the camera by Daguerre, the Frenchman. In 1820. and the Inception of plmtngrlmli.v In 1800. theater proprietor. Famous corporation, the worlds biggest movie concern, resulted, while Loew Is head of the company, a dose rival. Carl Laemmle, clothing store clerk of Oshkosh, WIs., In the winter of 1005 confided to a Chicago advertising agent thut he was tired of the clothing business. They talked over the possibilities of the movies. Finally he opened a theater In 1900. A few months Inter he started a film exchange and sold prints to other showmen. Out of his subsequent efforts to organize the Independent interests In their fight against Edison came the Universal Pictures. Both l.uemmle and Cochrane, the advertising mun, made fortunes. In 1907, the censorship pot, long simmering, boiled over. Rnnisaye recalls for 11s 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 fur 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 closed every Exhibitors protested, there was a compromise, and as a result the National Board of Censorship was formed. The first state to pass a censorship law was Pennsylvania In 1912. Players-Lask- ' still-pictur- 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 Amet pondered the Idea ; In Virginia Prot Woodvll! Latham played with It; In England Robert Frlese-Green- e started working, and In France two Instrument makers, Louis and Auguste Lumlere, 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 late as 1911, and may still have a belated appearance on some court dockets. Mr. Rainsaye says that the Lumlere projector made Its debut In March, 1S95, under the name of the cinematograph. Several weeks later Professor Latham, In America, demonstrated his projector, and only n short time later Amet made his showing. In general, all these devices were the same, with minor exceptions In the perforation of the film and In method of winding and rewinding. These precipitated legal battles In which were spent millions of dollars in costs, only to end, as a rule, In compromise and combination of the com- petlng parties. Thus the projector, the last vital development of motion pictures, was ready to revolutionize the world of amusement as early as 1893. The first public screen showing was mnde April at the old Koster A Rial music hell. In Twenty-thirstreet, New York. These were simple subjects, dancers, acrobats and the like anything with action In It. The Iden thut any actor would want money for hts efforts never occurred to the early film makers. The publicity they got out of It was held to be Cnnnoncltn. a Spnnlsh ample remuneration. dancing star, jerfnrmed ; Annnbelle Moore put on a serpentine; Snndow and other notables of the time ull worked on this basis of payment. - 20, 1S90, d Censorship Begins About this time came the first censorship. The Edison company had produced a piece In which Dolorlta put on a hoochle-koochla dance made known to America at the Chicago worlds fair. Klnetoscopes by this time, In 1800, were fairly well distributed, and there were several doing business on the Atlantic City hoard walk. Somebody took n ;eop at Dolorlta, became shocked at her performance, and promptly wrote a letter to the Mithoritlcs. The result was thut the owner of the establishment wrote the New York office, Send me another film. The police say that Dolo-rltu'- s dance I too strong. As early a 1890 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 such exploits ns the filming. In ls97, of the by fight at Reno, which ran 13.04X4 foot, and was shown at the old New York Academy of Music, tho first special showing of a picture. The same year one Alexander Victor, a theater magician. o'tied the first motion-picturwith 200 chairs In It. This was In Newark. N. J.. and admission was 23 cents. It soon Tailed. The war with Spain helped boost the new art. Here was an opportunity to get real action. The VRagrnph company, formed by Jimmy Illackton, a New York reporter, Albert E. Smith, a spirit cabinet exhibitor, and one Pop Rook, a Harlem billiard ball keeper, concocted a picture culled "Tearing IXwn the Spanish Flag." In Chicago George K. Spoor, news denier by day and ticket vende by night In a cheap vaudeville house, and Edwin II. Amet, the Inventor of one kind of projector, showed the destruction of Cerveras fleet, lloth of them were fake. The flag was "torn down" on a lot In Brooklyn, and the "fleet waa maneuvered In a washtub at the Waukegan (III.) atudlo of Spoor and Amet. This waa the day of the film pirate. If anyone made a picture which, attracted the public, others Immediately would copy 1L The Industry had lured the unscrupulous entrepreneur as well as those who lived by higher ethics, and where money Is at atake anything la 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 money-making- Corhett-Kltzsinnuon- s Appealed to Rough Element The cinema, It seems, had been In bad odor, more or less, from the start Its appeal. Its critics asserted, was mainly to the rough element" Then, too, followed the theater disasters In which many persons lost their lives. Films often caught fire In the crude projection machines, and many persons feared to enter such theaters because of the reported danger to their Uvea Everyone had heard of the Charity Bazar fire In 1S97 at Paris. Nearly 180 persons, among them many French nobles, had lost their lives when a 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 films. People were tiring of the old variety of subjects. Exhibitors wanted story pictures, and the producers problems begnn anew. The motion picture had no respectability then, and actors were scornful. It was necessary to seek out the hungry ones and tactfully suggest work in the pictures." Actors who met on the movie stages of Edison, Yltagruph and Biogrnph In those days kept their film shame" a secret It was the accepted practice of the time to Impress the actors Into service as 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 Yltagrflph from Edison a precedent wus set tip. "I am an actor and I will act hut I will not build sets and paint scenery.? He won on Ills dignity. p -- Enter Charlie and His Pants Charles 1913. Chapman made Ills screen debut In Ills 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 time to see the net go on. Kessel offered him $75 a week to appear In the films. Churlle refused It, as he did a subsequent offer of $100 a week. Finally the ante wns raised to $130 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 pictures followed, and the little Englishman famous before his name was known. Later his name was changed to Chaplin. Of the later developments In the Industry, the most signlflennt wns the effort to avoid censorship and regulation that might seriously Interfere with progress. In 1917 a wild party for Fatty Arbuekle la Boston drew unfavorable attention both to the pluyers and film officials who attended It. In 1921, Arbuekle with other movie people smashed into a screen scandal. Tho divorce of Mary Bickford from Owen Moore In Nevada was another cause cf scandal because of her early marriage to Douglas Fulrlmnks, an actor Just winning public favor. The producers felt that They formed an something Imd to be done. association of motion picture producers, and chairplaced at the head of It Will Hays, one-tim- e man of the Republican national committee, and postmaster general. Hays tackled hla Job seriously, and Is now the screen's most powerful figure when It comes to deciding on what may be shown. He can kill any story and can exile any actor from the screen And he hns used this power. Mr. Ramsuye hns brought his fascinating history down to the separation of the producing department from the exhibiting department of the Famous Player' organization. BnlabHD A Knts of Chicago took over the theaters. On June 5, 1920, Famous Players bought them back. This present article meutlons only scattered gleanings from the elghty-onchapters of Ram-sayework. For one Incident set down hers there are scores of equally Interesting ones gathered In the two volumes. The one thing about this history which appeals perhaps more tlinn any other single quality la the attitude of the historian. His face wns not long and stern when ha wrote. He saw the human aldo of this comedy drums. 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