, 1915-06-17
AMERICAN PoLYscoPE COMPANY
INCORPORATED FOR
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Great Moving Picture Producing co
to Have Its Headquarters In
Salt Lake.

filed its articles of incorporation in
Salt Lake City and is rapidly connie,
ing its organization to begin produc.
ton early in the summer. They have
taken a longtime lease on all of the
huge Majestic Park, including the i'm.
mense dancing pavilion, which will he
used by the company. The dancing
pavilion will be converted into a stu.
dio. the largest in the world, not even
excepting the one at B%ayonne. N. /
where ten stagings can be housed at
the same time, giving the Company
as fine facilities as possessed by apy
producing firm.
This will not only be the headuuar.
tiers for mi Of the largest moving
picture producing concerns in the
United States. but will also mark a
distinct departure in policy of moving
picture production. Whereas the edu.
cational pictures, though highly lucrs.
tive, have only been produced as side.
lines heretofore. They will be can.
italized on a gigantic scale by the
new company. This. in conjunction
with the whole cooperative plan on
which this department is to be
worked, should insure a great success
and remunerative business for the far.
sighted men of this organization.
The company's offices are in the
Newhouse Building. Salt Lake being
selected as the center most advan.
tageously situated for the carrying
out of the %company's plan. The in.
corporators are j.. e. Langford, pres
ident; J.J. Ford, vice president and
general manager; George w. DER,
treasurer; F. L. Palmquist, secretary,
and these with C. G. Morgan and W.
R. Calvert. will comprise the board Of
directors. These prominent men are
the local hackers, but eastern capi,
talists connected with the moving pic.
ture business, especially of Philadel
phia and New York, are also under.
stood to be heavily interested in the
project, being impressed with the won
derful possibilities of such line Of
production If managed on the large
scale the company proposes to follow
out. Only experts will be employed
and highest professional proficiency |
will De the standard. This fact, the
management states, has already re
suited In some large contracts for spe.
cial production work.
The company will make a specially
of educational and scientific pictures,
laying special stress upon this class
of production, but will also make spec
tacular pictures. These educational
pictures will be for presentation at
medical colleges, agricultural col
leges, universities and other educa.
tional institutions, clinics lectures.
Every phase of all the important in.
dustries, sciences, arts and more i'm
portant institutions will be taken up
in efficient accuracy by professional
ly posted men. The wool industry
will be shown from start to finish
from the raising of the sheep, the
shearing and the final conversion Of
it into wooden textiles at the mill;
the copper industry will be pictured
in every detail from the work In the
mines. including the great Utah cop
per mine at Bingham, through every
process of refining and manufacture.
From these the field will be broad
ened to take up the exploitation oil
all the important industries OF the
world, covering every field of educa
tional interest.
Lectures will be prepared in five
languages to be given as a part OF the
educational work. These courses Will
be prepared by a distinguished In
guist of Salt Lake.
Letters Of high commentator ART
being received from prominent ecu
Gators and officials all over te
United States, and tentative introdGc
tion of the purpose of the compan'
to institutions and the general fiel'
of its productions output has alreau,
given promise for the disposing oil ~
its output.
The company intends to make SAp
Lake the center of n of the Nus
important branches of film proouV
ton, and will also develop fea'ui
and dramatic films of the highest u
der, Announcement is made by ~"
men behind the project that eSeh1
film will bear the legend sat -
City and New York.; the princ'pa
offices of the company being
while the distributing offices WI
in New York. The hackers Oh
company state that they already
enough money tn insure its SUCCESS