The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-26

The Canadian people have decided ia
make history by means of the motion
picture camera, and the first move is
the Parliamentary Council Of Canada.
The Nitagraph company Of America
mas been entrusted with this work.
Future generations will witness the
Borden Cabinet at work in the privy
council chamber. 1t will be a real
cinematograph picture showing the
leaders of the nation taking sweet
counsel together.
For half an hour the cincmato-
graph men were busy in the prlvy
council chamber before a full cabinet
with their machines, and they came
away pleased at the good impression.
which viii be shown to seventy mill
lions of people daily throughout the
world when they are ready.
The pictures are part of scheme
by the Vitagraph company. to write
a cincmatograph picture history of
Canada, from the days of Jacques Car
tier up to the present premier,
And royalty will figure i'm the pic
turc The picture men. by royal per-
mission. attended the skating party at
Government House and caught the
duke moving about, the duchess re-
ceiving her guests and pretty Prin-
cess pat" gracefully figuring on the
ice with a crowd of Ottawa's best and
brightest.
The operations were In charge Of
Hal Reid and Walker Arthur
For the first time i'm the history of
the American navy the torpedo fleet
division of the Pacific fleet recently
specially engaged in a series of man
euvers for motion pictures. Orders for
this drill were given by Secretary of
the Navy George l.. Won Meyer Per-
mission to take the pictures was Sc
cured by Fred Halliday of this city.
Halliday secured l,200 feet of pictures
which have been developed and ready
for shipment to Washington, where
they are to be inspected by Secretary
Won Meyer i'm person before they are
released for production.
Posing for these pictures were
twelve torpedo boats and destroyers
and the two submarines. The man
euvers were conducted by Commodore
L. c. Richardson. The camera was
orcrated on board the tender Fortune.
The maneuVcrs took place between
Coronado Beach and the Coronado
Islands. one of the best pictures Sc
cured and one likely TO be praised by
the American public was the formation
of the entire fleet into a flying wedge,
the boats attaining a speed OF twenty
two knots. The wedge shows meth
cd of attack on the enemy and is one
on which the fleet has practiced az
maneuvers to become proficient.
Another picture taken was OF inc
midget fighting ships forming col
umn preparatory TO getting into action
one of the greatest achievements OF
tho camera perhaps was that taking
the crew OF lOIptho bo'N ~ "~
loading torpedo tube Every part oil
the performance of drawing the de-
structive missile to position OF load
ing. it's placing in the tube ana then
the attention of the gun crew to avian
orders to fire were posed. The great
est difficulty was encountered III pho-
toeraphing the submarines the sea
was rough and choppy and the barrel
like war demons bobbed up and dowr
in the huge waves like floating bottles
In the April Womans Home Com
panion there is an extraordinary IN
teresting account of the development
of moving pictures as definite educa-
tional agencies. The article inciude'
n number of specific reports OF inc
uses to which moving pictures are be'
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