East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-02

Moving picture innovations are
making a literal panorama of mans
/ life today, says the Chicago Record
Herald. Every home may be con-
sidered a stage and every member Of
! the family player with a star part.
/ The camera is focused on the strik-
ing moments in human careers and
the crank is turned while the domes-
/ tic scenes are perpetrated on the NOV
! ing film. The day approaches appar-
emily when the professional perform
er may be done away with and sim
pie machine installed, having rank
with the phonograph and the piano
! player as adjuncts of entertainment,
distraction, and instruction in the
/ home.
! The anniversaries and celebrations
| that are milestones In every human
/ l.fe have been seized upon as fit sub
! jects for pictorial perpetuity. How
I far superior to the commonplace mar
rage register and certificate as a
! family possession is the little roll that
will unfold the actual drama of the
nuptial ceremony. The smile of the
the beaming faces of wedding guests,
the glory of the wedding finery and
the gorgeousness of the elaborate dec
orations are caught by the camera
man and presented beyond perad-
venture Of Misrepresentation Friends
! who were unable TO attend the cere-
many may see it afterward, true to
life.
In later years children may make
merry over the absurd appearance
that father and mother presented in
their funny" wedding clothes. Father
and mother themselves as they grow
older, will take an ill-concealed de-
light in looking at themselves as they
We're in that joyous golden age.
Arrangements were made to photo
graph the marriage of Miss Jennie
! Crocker to Mr.. Malcolm ID. Whitman,
which, taking place as it did in the
most beautiful setting that California
! luxuriance can provide, offered an
| opportunity for a series of moving
| pictures that will be a joy forever as
| a family possession.
When Miss Mary G. c. Farquhar
was married to Mr.. Daniel Warner
Marvin in her fathers home on River
ide drive last spring the entire cere-
mony was repeated in moving pic
ture studio Immediately afterward.
The temporary altar and all the flor
al democrations were transferred to
it and the contracting parties, clergy
man, attendants, parents, and guests
took their places as for the real rites.
Every detail was reproduced, even to
the embraces and congratulations at
the conclusion. a phonograph fur
nished the wedding music.
In addition to the actual marriage
ceremony the festivities attendant up
on the paper wooden, crystal silver,
| golden and diamond weddings lend
| themselves admirably to the film fam
| lily record. Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel Sutro,
who celebrated their silver wedding
little more than two years ago, not
content with picturing the happy fea-
lures of that event, went back to the
red letter days of their courtship and
posed, as we'll as the addition of twen-
ty-five years would let them, as swain
and sweetheart.
Hugh f. Hoffman, who claims to
have been the first man to suggest
the cinematographic wedding. asserts
that the moving picture will be the
future family tree and that it will dis
count all other genealogical and her
aldic methods of showing what Il
family really is and what it came
from. Each member of the family
may have a print of the foundation of
the family, and so it may continue
for centuries.
When 1t is adopted the gorgeous
wedding will no longer be merely
ephemeral spectacle. 1t will be kept