The Washington times., 1915-06-16
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Lubin Declares the
Patrons of Films
May Make Their
OzUn Pictures

The motion picture camera and
protector are to have a place in the
living room beside the photograph!
When a record Of Tettrazini singing
Lucia" 10 slipped into the machine
for the family's after-dinner con-
cert, some one Of the sons and
daughters will adjust a reel Of Aim
showing the great soprano in the
opera and project It against the wall.
The family can have Its opera COM
plete, thenl
This seems to be more or less a
dream when one just reads over the
sentences in which 1t is stated. But
no less a person than Sigsmund Lu-
bin. head Of the Lubin Film Com
pany. 10 authority for the statement.
Further than that. Mr.. Lubin has
himself invented the machines and
hopes some day to find time to
mako plans for their manufacture.
At the present he hasn't tho time.
Mr.. Lubin. 1t must bo remem-
bered. was In the business of making
lenses and spectacles and field
glasses, etc.. before he was at
tracted to the motion picture busi-
ness. His establishment in Philadel-
phia was one of the landmarks of
the downtown section-a small ship,
with a gilded figure outside Of It,
proclaiming the trade.
1t Is but natural. having made
some millions in the film business,
that Mr.. Lubin should be enthusi-
astic over its future. It Is not
usual. however. to find q man who
Is making money from Aim as It is
now. inventing machines to put him.
self out Of business! Yet that IL
what Mr.. Lubin Is doing-or has
done. This is the way he tells
about it:
I predicted some time ago that
the average person would soon be
able to go to his photographer and
instead Of still picture of himself
or his family would have motion pic
lures made and would show them at
home himself to his relatives and
friends.
After many years of experiment.
Ing I have completed q little house
apparatus through which regular
1iim can be shown. No electricity is
needed to run 1t, and pictures can be
shown In either day or artificial
Light This machine weighs less
than flve pounds, can be placed on a
chair or table, and Is very simple
TO run. The cost Of it, when put on
tne market, will probably be between
!$12 and SIS. which will enable al
most any one to be his own exhibi-
EST ho ia oI.o ,>~<o.x.s
picture camera for the use of Dor
trait photographers. 1t will not be
very long before every photographer
will be equipped with one Of these
cameras, and then every one can
have motion pictures made of them
home through my little house ap. q.
paratus. How much better 1t will
be to sec our relatives and friends
in motion pictures than by looking
at them in still pictures or oil paint
ings.
In cooperation with a number ~
distinguished specialists we are do
Ing splendid work at present with
medical and surgical moving pic
lures. Unusual phases of medical
and surgical work are photographed,
and these films are shown in hospi-
tails and medical colleges all over the
stand how valuable these pictures
are to the profession. In the splendid
work being done today by the medi-
cal world in preventing disease, we
are doing all we can to assist.
The time Is rapidly approaching
when motion pictures will be used in
every school and college in the land.
All over the country at the present
time schools are using pictures as an
aid to instruction and getting splen-
did results. Educators are coming
to realize that the sense of sight is a
most important factor to deal with
and that impressions gathered
through sight are always more last
ing