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Show RAILROADS USING MOVING PICTURES. By a novel use of moving pictures the scenery in the Canadian Rockies, on the Pacific ocean and in China and Japan has blossomed out simultaneously in all the cities of the United States, and thereby things theatrical have become part of the complex affairs of the Canadian Pacific railway officials. According to the annual report of that road, just issued, the company's affairs already were greatly varied from hauling grain of the western provinces and the operation of hotels at the mountain resorts and of steamers on the Atlantic and Pacific to the irrigation of the biggest tract of land on the continent, 1,500,000 acres. The moving picture theaters this year have staged little dramas enacted among the great peaks of the Selkirks and Rockies, on the "Empresses" "Em-presses" of the trans-Pacific trade and on the steamers of the Alaska trade and reproduced by the films. This effect never was attempted before on a large scale and has proved peculiarly effective, spectators specta-tors being transported suddenly thousand of miles as though by the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights tales. Those in the audiences who have visited Lakes Louise and Banff, the Hicilliwat glacier and the Canyon of the Kicking' Horse, are startled by the instantaneous illusion il-lusion by which they see the gleaming peaks, glaciers and waters and the broad prairies and whitecapped ocean without leaving their seats and within a few minutes' ride of their homes. Never before was anything so elaborate attempted, although at the Seattle exposition moving pictures were used by the same road to reproduce the prairie regions of Canada, with their waving expanses ex-panses of wind-waved grain. |