The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-13
FOR B|OGRAPH.
Several Interesting Pictures
Taken in This City for Exhi-
billion al Keith S New Theatre


supt.. Armitage OF the American Bio
graph company OF New York yesterday
secured two moving pictures In Provi-
dence, which he confidently expects 10
prove among the best that he has Sc
cured anywhere In the country; and IL
after development they justify his ex-
pectations they will be shown at Keith's.
for which theatre they were expressly
hibited in all the large cities OF his
country and I'm all the European capitals.
Accompanied by Press Representative
H. /. Dillenback of Keiths, Mr.. Armi-
tage went to the Peace street grammar
school I'm the morning. and, very kindly
aided by Principal George Il. Church, Sc
cured picture showing more than 200
of the children of the school coming out
of the building in about one minute. the
incident being the fire drill i'm which the
pupils OF this school have become so pro-
fcient; and the result demonstrated the
excellent discipline maintained and the
quickness with which the entire build
ing could be emptied in case OF fire.
Early in the afternoon, through the CO.
operation of Chairman White of the fire
commissioners and Deputy Chief Hill
with the assistance OF officers detailed
by Deputy Chief OF Police Egan, another
, picture. which should prove very ef
fective, was secured OF the apparatus of
the Three Ones coming out OF the sta
ton in response 10 an alarm. The speed
With urnfeh hau ba
pronounced by Mr. Armitsge the best
he had ever seen in any city in the coun-
try in so short run from ine station;
and he complimented the department
very highly.
The picture, IL IL proves successful,
will show not only the regular apparatus.
but Deputy CHIEF Hin. a carriage con-
tanning Manager Lovenberg and Press
Representative Diilenback of Keith's and
big crowd of people running after the
apparatus, including several well-known
newspaper men and a number OF others.
whose faces will be recognized by
large number of people.
In the afternoon trip was made TO
Roger Williams park 10 secure n picture
of Baby Roger. which had been ar
ranged for through the courtesy of
Chairman Deming of the park commits
sion and Supt Fits, but the light was
not strong enough and the attempt had
To be abandoned until today, when II was
hoped the conditions would be more IA
Yorable
The strongest possible sunlight and
atmospheric conditions by no means
common are essential for the taking of
thoroughly successful and satisfactory
pictures for the biograph, the conditiesaS-
which meet every requirement OF or
dinary photography being altogether in
adequate
Since an attempt was made nearly a
year ago 10 take local biograph pictures,
the apparatus has been very greatly
simplfied and improved; and much bet
ter pictures are aow secured with
greater ease and at less expense, al
though even now the cost of film such
as was required for the school picture is
about $75 Formerly the camera and ac-
companying storage battery weighed
over 1900 pounds; but the storage battery
for the operation OF the camera has now
been done away with. and hand operat-
ed camera weighing only 30 pounds 10
used.
The film used at the Peace street
school was more than 900 feet in length,
and more than 5000 separate and distinct
pictures were taken In about one min
ute at the rate of about so per second.
The film for the fire department picture
was over $50 feet i'm length, and over 1000
separate pictures were taken I'm some
thing more than half minute.