Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-27
SCENERY TO BE
SHOWN BY FILM
ORPHEUM INTENDS TO BOOM
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SPECIAL EXPERT AT WORK ON
SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Midwinter Attractions Will Be AdVer-
tised Throughout the company's
Entire Circuit by Means of
Moving Pictures

| Moving pictures of Southern Cali
| fornia and especially of Los Angeles.
| taken at this midwinter holiday season
and displaying the beauties of its glo-
rious climate, it's Horticulture, its sports
and it's unusual conditions are to be
shown in all the Orpheums on the cir
cult, demonstrating to the east and
middle west by ocular proof that this
is the ideal spot of earth at this sea-
son when the rest of the country is
frozen up and blanketed with snow.
| G. M. Anderson, a special commits
sioner from the Orpheum general Of
| fees, Is here with an expert corps of
moving picture takers, and for two
weeks past has been taking photo
graphs of parks, street scenes, views
of Mount Lowe, Pasadena and the re-
| gion hereabouts. These are to be de-
veloped and printed at once-some of
them have already been prepared-and
will be shown Immediately in all the
| Orpheum houses.
| Mr.. Anderson will go out to Eastlake
| park this afternoon and take views of
the throngs at the open-air band con-
cert there. Monday he will go up
| Mount Lowe again and take pictures
along the route, showing the ascent of
the incline and the tour along the troll
! ley on top of the mountain. One day
this week he will go up with Knaben-
! SDub HI lIlC ldll6l Oil snip anu AorAC q
panorama of the whole region for
distance of 200 square miles. New
Years day he will picture the Tourna-
ment of Roses and the chariot races.
He probably will be here two weeks
longer. getting views he has blocked
out.
The sending of Mr.. Anderson orig
mated in the office of Martin Beck, the
Orpheum general manager. Not to
"tip off, any rivals, Mr.. Beck told Mr..
| Anderson not to mention his business
| out here, and the latter Obeyed faith
fully, not even informing Clarence
| Drown, the local manager. He and his
assistant first registered at the An
gelus, but fearing lack of secrecy moved
to an apartment on the hill, where
they have since set up a workshop.
Every day they have been out with
their machine and assisted by a corps
! of posers hired for the purpose, they
have taken hundreds of yards of films
of the city's beauties in midwinter.
An accident revealed the fact that
! Anderson was here to Mr.. Drown. The
latter was coming into the city Christ
mas morning on a Westlake car. when,
! passing the park he was surprised to
see a conductor jump on the platform,
| attack an apparently innocent passen-
ger. drag him from the car and indulge
| in a rough and tumble fight with him
/ IN the street. 4OS6lLCI Will Tie ASoS
of the passengers Mr.. Drown jumped
to his feet intending to help the victim
of the assault. Just then he saw An
derson signaling the fighters, mean
while rapidly and vigorously grinding
his picture machine. When Anderson
called for his mail at the Orpheum yes
terday the real purpose of his coming
| leaked out.
Secret Leaks Out
1--WE are here" said Mr.. Anderson,
"to get a large series of Southern Call
fornia and especially Los Angeles
views for the houses on the Orpheum
circuit There is so much interest in
this country and this city in the east
that Mr.. Beck thought it would be well
worth while to portray it and its beau
ties in the regular picture numbers
on the Orpheum programs. So he sent
me out for that purpose. l did not
make my mission known, as we feared
some rival might pick up the idea and
beat us to it. But L have so nearly
finished that it will make little differ
ence. and as it is out anyhow you might
as we'll know about 1t.
$50 far we have taken hundreds Of
wards of films, and we have several
more DAYS to devote to the work. 1
have a. corps of supernumeraries hired
and trained, and they are the persons
Won will see in the comedy pictures. In
the regulation scenes, such as the
parks, sea bathing in midwinter, ami
so on, we use the people who happen
4 to be about-though they usually do
not know it. In fact, 1 think Mr..
Drown himself will figure in that street
fight episode, whether he likes it or not.
THAT seems to be one on him. L shall
take the Mount Lowe trip Monday, and
probably will ascend in the airshlp
about Wednesday, If it is perfectly
clear. We go out to Eastlake park for
the band concert today.
$50 far, 1 must say, the films we
have will astonish the fasteners. They
show scenes that in midwinter are al
most unbelievable. Your holiday shop
ping crowds, for instance, are tremen-
dous-euual to a city three times your
size. The beauties of the city are too
numerous to get into series ten times
as large. The fact that these pictures
are the first attempt to portray your
life in this fashion-the first, in fact,
10 give one part of our country q
eIimpse in actuality of any other part
makes them all the more novel. You
certainly will be well advertised by the
time these get over the Orpheum circuit
of one hundred and four houses"