The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-29
FORTUNES MADE BY
MOVING PICTURES
Great Demand for EhiS Form
of Amusement
SMALLCAPITAL IS NEEDED
A Profitable Field That Is Extending
at Remarkable Rate to All
Parts of the United
States.
SMALLCAPITAL Is NEEDED

From the New York Telegraph.
IT believe the time will come when
the life moving picture machine will be a
part and parcel of every up-to-date home.
Il believe that the day is not far dis
tant when the moving picture film will
be delivered at the home as Is the morn
ing newspaper of today, and that the
written description of the events of the
day before will be augmented by the
realistic portrayal of the happening.
THE day is coming when the people will
not have to depend upon descriptions
written from the viewpoint of the report
er or corps of reporters, who are of ne
cessity forced to summon their magma
ton to help out the writer. The day Of
actually is near at hand The family will
be able for a trihing cost to witness the
exact events Of the launching, the fight
of the airship, the baseball game, the
charity ball, the parade in honor of
new admiral, the blowing up of another
He'll Gate, the boat race, the horse race,
the games at Athens; intact, any or all
of the chief moving events of our daily
existence.
Indeed. all this may be done now by
people willing to expend the necessary
course there must be a great lessening in
cost before the moving pictures become
part of the family's everyday life, but 1t
will come in time"
Making Moving Pictures.
Thus spoke Prof s. Lubin of Phla-
delphia to a reporter of the Morning Tele-
graph the other day. Professor Lubin. as
the inventor and largest manufacturer of
moving picture machines and films in the
world. ought to know whereof he speaks.
He is spending many thousand dollars
every week to secure new subjects for
his films. and these are being exhibited
In nearly every civilized city of the
world.
To illustrate the mighty activity of the
Dubin forces 1t may he said that with
the first news of the San Francisco dis
aster corps of expert operators were
rushed to the Pacific coast. His men
secured pictures of vital interest, and
they will live in history. These pictures,
shown at the Keith & Proctor circuit
theatres. have created a profound SEN
sation wherever exhibited
Just now European capitals are i'm
mensely interested in Professor Bubn's
moving pictures of the wedding of King
Alfonso and all tho events of that sem
sational celebration which almost cost
Spain its King and new-made Queen
Professor Lubin has the exclusive priv
ilege of taking moving pictures with the
Wellman North Pole expedition, and his
operators are now on the ship with Mr..
Wellman. Professor Lubin was the first
ever to take moving pictures of prize
fights.
The development of the moving picture
and its growing popularity is one of the
most interesting features of the last few
years That the moving picture has come
to stay and will increase In popularity
with every passing day may easily be
believed when one notes the growing
number of galleries or exhibition places
The reaso- for the popularity of the
moving picture Is not difficult to dis
cover. 1t possesses that all-important
property of novelty and never-ending
novelty at that. Moving pictures are like
books of music In this
Big Money for Exhibits.
1t was but few months ago when
the moving picture exhibition formed an
entertainment in itself and people paid
theatre prices of admission to witness 1t.
1t grew to become an "act'' of the vaude-
Vile. 1t has grown In the affections Of
amusement-loving people until. in many
cities every street contains its moving
picture gallery, where for a few pennies
men, women and children may witness
the moving events of the day or the
year.
This phase of the moving picture bust
ness is In its infancy, but is growing at
an astonishing rate. Young men, and
old men for that matter. who are up to
date and have the capacity of grasping
a good opportunity are opening moving
picture galleries everywhere and are
reaping profits that are almost unbeliev-
able. Discussing this phase of the bust
ness, Professor Lubin had this to say:
at Is not only possible for exhibitors
I not alone in large cities, but in small
towns as WELL to make a thousand per
cent per week on their investments but
It is being done every day. and the NOV
ing picture business is not a get rich
quick scheme" either. 1t costs very little
now to purchase a complete moving pic
ture outfit. In almost every city and a
large and rapidly increasing number of