The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22
MOVING PICTURES
he Evolution of the New Tn vention That Depicts Ac-
 tion Faithfully.
NOVING- PICTURE STORIES
hey Arc Eagerly Sought and Paid for in n Very Generous
 Fashion.

The great controversy over natur- lsm and the deeper but less agltated he touching the functions of art ave at last been ended. You ask hat critic or philosopher has drop ed the solvent phrase? None. His Pry alone has settled the matter, riting her answer in the adventures the picture moving show So clear, p final, are the evidences there ad- uced that we must advise essayists to lke a course in applied aesthetics some ten cent theater before com fitting to ink their views on Balzac Hola says the New York Evening ost. The evolution Of the kineto- hope is peculiarly convincing by Vir le of the instruments lowly birth, hildhood friends and natural dispo- ton This mirror was not made to rder for some bard who would hold up to nature and copyright the re fction. Nor was if fashioned to as- st a romaneer's fancy Devised in a boratory as a scientific oadity with rospective cash value as toy, 1t is unbiased d medium for artistic eXe ression as a typewriter, Better vet has never been seized upon by any reat artist since Its advent in the oWery and remodeled into a vehicle br his own philosophy as the news hper has been hy those noyelists who rite on journalistic themes in jour bistlc English, and call the product erature From the day it was first Eed to picture a meandering SOW e kinetoscope has unwound its films hd fitted from scene to scene only at he behest of the proletariat, innocent aesthetic dogma Have we not the ght' therefore, to find in the deyel pment of this new, unrayished artis.
 genre the truth about realsm and man nature2
 What has been happening in nick odeons" and penny arcades" while
 Brunetere and Professor Santaya have been discoursing? The youth a rotator has clicked off Hegeliar cle of three stages First, there wa, ature, pure and undedlad but thi. hs so long ago that children in the fifth Reader can scarcely recall th, y We older heads know 1t well ough, then landscapes used to unrol om a seat on the cowcatcher of q fly. 2 locomotive. we breathessly watch
 the spray break over a fshinf hack in open water, and a few fortu tes saw, real Kansas cyclones and pine avalanches rage over the mirae ous canvas hack of the darkened otlights. That was naturalisn hich made the Comedie Humaine anC The Jungle seem like miserable ubs But did audiences return anC turn again with appetite unappeased nly brief while. Man in the orches- a chair cried for man on the screen Id the second era that of Nature umanized. dawned one fine evening ympic games shone forth in the dark. loops marched up San Juan Hill fol ie benefit of Fourteenth street FirC zines dashed through Broadway owds; and some whisper that Harlen acks were once burned, just to makt theatergoer's holiday Here, at last ps the eonsummation of things aspir
 to by the realists; had the box fce receipts but pointed to a demand F photographs Of the most glorious e meanest, the most paradoxical, O e vulgarest aspect of life, the nov picture man could have supplied trice and a world enamored o' Tt would thereafter have employed velists only to write realism for tht ind But how swiftly this prospec led!
 ,Perhaps the gallery began to thro7 Ianuts shells at the moving pctur an in this second era because 1t dis verFd that the murders, prodigies q thrilling escapes with which it va Hing rcgalod We're made in lofts oi nird avenue. But had no disconten Fen no deeper, lt could easily hay Fen soothed by return to actualitie'
 gathered strength, though, Just be luse actualities proved too cheap. An Sw the third phase in our cycle ap Mars: Romanticism Its frs, flus lone uncertainty when operators ra e moving pictures backward throug Heir machines and the Won srland effects awoke applause whicf
 the ears of wise men, sounded tn Hath knell of realism That was onl e other day And what now? Th llowing lines from an advertisement n all:
 Moving Picture Stories Wanted.
 1ood prices paid for interesting Moy aG Picture Stories Dramatic, Humor g, or Pathetic We want strong, first Ass matter only
 'Mutoseope and Biograph Company ,The drama, humor and pathos 1 e world are not enough. They lac ,herence and form in their origlnf lting Worse still. they sedor tjint a moral or quicken the fancy ,ie moving picture man will prove .l you if you will but take the troubl visit his hall There you will SC lrmons in cellulold and books in th Mining ribbon of breaking light the N,oots over the spectators head Kicked men pitched into Satan's fire ,herculous and virtuous orphan Iifted through the pearly gates, Sa ltIon army lasses marrying rich me ihom they once rescued from
 iunkards grave; poor but hone' yvants finding buried treasures Id all wrought with that vivid con