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...gorgeous brilliance of his wanderings and death were enhanced by a Wagner score, adapted from the operas and played by a large and able orchestra. What would be the effect of the film without the music is difficult...
Booth Tarkington has written another story for Thomas Meighan; a story that looks dangerously as though he had rewritten it from an earlier Meighan film. The star plays a convict-innocent of course -who gives up his revenge because his girl suggests it. Mr. Meighan's films of late have been just about as thin as milk can get. They are still popular...
...some time British cinema companies have been having a thoroughly unhappy time of it. Most of their difficulties arise from the difficulty experienced in competing with imported U. S. films. Britain herself has scarcely enough of a movie public to support domestic film production; as compared with America's 25,000 cinemas, Britain has only...
...about the President and his wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took two pictures of the Chief Executive with his hat on, another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching the President's eye, up rushed Mr. Sears. He mastered the German mechanism and coached Mrs. Coolidge...
...replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable (largest size) of playing continuously for an hour without "changing the record...