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Show EDISON PEERS INTO THE FUTURE OF THE FILM AND TELLS WHA T HE SEES THERE Improvements On Which He and Many Others Are At Work He Docs Not Think Talking Pictures Will Displace the Silent Photoplay. The motion picture is a subject of very deep interest to Thomas A. Edison. Ed-ison. Willi all his oldtime physical and mental activity and energy apparently unimpaired he continues untiringly at work in his efforts to bring it closer and closer to perfection. When the writer called on Mr. Edison Ed-ison at his laboratory in West Orange a few days ago he found him quite willing to give his views on the motion picture, past, present and future. Leaning Lean-ing back comfortably in his chair, after lighting a long cigar, he said in reply to a question as to the most notable steps of prcgress already made in motion mo-tion pictures : V - A. Mr- 1 Uion- '"Both "will bcVrd '1 !' SIxbW 'fk tm At talkine P'"-"ture, when perfected, will Sll VV. y'ttWVL Prov'c tnc Poorer people with that fly - ulljjjj) other branch of entertainment, singing .... and music. Wc will sec and bear litfle "Better photography, better actors and better technique in the studios, as well as the combination of manufacturers manufac-turers to prevent the marketing of objectionable ob-jectionable pictures through censorship, censor-ship, have been the great advance strides in motion pictures," Mr- Edison began. H gazed for a moment into the cir cling clouds of cigar smoke. "The moving picture will endure as long as poor people exist," the inventor continued. "It fills the same want in the lives of the masses, that the five-cent five-cent trolley car filled. The motion picture pic-ture (its into their income. The workers work-ers deserve and must have more amusement amuse-ment than the richer folk who are able to afford the regular theater and other expensive pleasures." Mr. Edison firmly believes that the film is a mighty lever for good. "The motion picture is the great educator of the poorer people It incites tlicir imagination imag-ination by bringing the whole world before be-fore their eyes h vets spectators thinking think-ing and raises their standard of living." The inventor smoked on -ilently, as if mentally weighing the future. "The next steps of advancement will center about better photograrh . with less flicker, the production of multiple reel screen dramav colored pictures and possibly tereoco.ic films with the effect of actual depth. "We do not know yet how to attain the stereoscopic effect I have no than four snppesunns a dav from all ?arts of America, but not vet have I ound one process which is practical "I have long been working on a method meth-od to secure photography in all natural colors in their right value " The wizard drew from his pocket a mall strip of film upon which a scene was repro- duced in the tint? of nature and handed hand-ed it to me. "It is raw yet," Mr. Edison commented, com-mented, "but it proves the possibility of color photography. We can take sixteen six-teen pictures a second. The Lumicrc process requires several seconds for one picture. It is quite a technical feat to get motion photography in perfect coloring col-oring Our Mr. Fowric has devoted five years to it and it is going to come. Then, with the stereoscopic effect, perfected per-fected talking pictures capable of operatic oper-atic reproduction, and the elimination of the flicker, we shall have the whole thing. --ealaManasil Brunette ' 1 fy "oi ni-n ! 9 l operettas, impossible with silent pictures." pic-tures." "What is your estimation of the future fu-ture educational value of pictures?" I asked. "Books," declared the inventor with decision, "will soon be obsolete in the public schools. Scholars will be instructed in-structed through the eye. It is possible pos-sible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years. "The motion picture is destined to develop some of the most wonderful players in the world. The talking pictures pic-tures demand and require good acting. "In five years we will produce operettas oper-ettas in perfected talking pictures almost as good as if not better than the original. We will have better artists, we will rehearse re-hearse longer, and wc will jjive the full volume f the melodies. It will offer the poor a show for their money and. when you phase them, you win a mighty clientele. "In the years to come and the vcars are not far off. although there are many who will doubt my prophecy the technique tech-nique o the picture will he so perfect that the great actors and actresses will live in their own homes, while their picture pic-ture reproductions will travel and spread their art This will come because be-cause the screen productions will be so much better than a performance of traveling trav-eling players, which must naturally be affected by varying condition, "It will pav to rehearse the dramas for three months previous to a performance perform-ance before the camera. Rehearsal is evcrvthing. Then duplication of the finally perfect performance will be unlimited. un-limited. The motion picture reproductions reproduc-tions will travel while the actors are preparing a new drama. So the picture pic-ture will revolutionize education and the drama." JLQH I a bb o ? uani v9KlHBi& ' ' ' '' Qi rge Du Boi Proctor, who wields such a trenchant pen in behalf of the uplift of the photoplay, has leaped comet-like from some shadow beneath the .... 1 -ty.. .. .U - f.l IT- |
