Arizona republican., 1915-04-25

a number in course of construction costing half a million dollars and more. The hard bottomed, straight back, kitchen chair is done away with and in it's place we see expensive opera chairs made for comfort. The Isqueeky whining pnonosrapn has been succeeded by six and seven piece Orchestras, supplemented by pipe or gans costing from 5000 to $2j,00e. Instead of the ordinary canvas cur tain we see the most modern gold fibre curtain, which one can lOo!
 upon thru and number of pictures without harm to the eyes. The operating rooms are of the fire proof construction and equipped with two or more projecting machines costing from $500 to $350 each with motor drive in place of the old hand drive. The cooling, heating and Ventilating plants installed in q modern picture house represent an investment of from 5000 to $15,000. By these de- vices atmospheric conditions in the theaters are kept at d pleasant tenn perature with the air changing enough to satisfy the strictest expert on sanitation and enabling the pat Ions to enjoy the show without that stuffy feeling experienced when the air is not thoroughly renovated.
 Returning to the pictures them selves. Very few persons who pat ronize moving picture theatres have any idea of the size of the picture on the film. which is thrown on the screen lifesize. A picture on the finn is about one inch wide (here is q sample of exposed negative and q piece not eSposed) and three-fourths of an inch high. There are about fifteen of these small pictures to a foot of film and the regular length of Ieel is one thousand feet. A thousand foot reel is shown in fif- teen minutes. Therefore. when look ing at a picture on the screen, you see one thousand pictures every min ute, or fifteen thousand pictures to every reel.
 The pictures are handled by several combinations of manufa cturers the largest number being grouped into three companies the Motion Picture Patents company. better known as tine Trust or General Film company; the Universal Program. and the Mu- tual Program. The pictures are leased to the different exchanges. mostly owned by these combinations at so much q foot The exchanges which are located practically all over ;he world, in turn rent them to the exhibitors in the different towns and cities in their territory. at so much Der reel Every picture has a re- lc1Se and is released in every tx change city in the United States and Canada on the same day They
 Ire then put on q circuit and travel from city tO city for perhaps two or three months before they are re- turned to the point of origin. They are then sometimes sent over an other circuit to houses that run what is known as second run pictures or pictures being shown for the second time in that city. By being released in every exchange city on the same Cate, no pictures can be shown in New York City day earlier than it is shown in Arizona.
 A few words in regard to the edu- cational vaiue of motion pictures is apropos here. of late years there is no trauch of education that nov ing pictures do not cover In many public schoCls picture machines have been installed to illustrate various important points in every branch of education. Also in medical colleges. sanitariums, and asylums. you will find machines in use for the educa- ton and entertainment of the inmates as well as the corps of workers Many churches have adopted this modern method of Illustrating vital points in text. and the penitentiaries have been using this method of entertain ment and enlightenment for some time All United States battleships, as well as transatlantic liners, are installing picture machines for the amusement of the sailors and pas sengers. Uncle sam has ordered motion pictures for tht army officers to illustrate their lectures to the National Guards. The government has also employed a manufacturer to reproduce some of the famous Indian tattles of the West to be taken on the original battle fields with as many of the surviving participants in it as possible, the pictures to be pre- served in Washington. and used for the instruction of future generations A contract has been made by the government with the "Pathe Freres' to furnish different views in moving pictures of the Panama canal at the different stages of completion, these pictures to be kept as official re- cords. I very recently read an ar ticle stating that d French manufac- turer has contracted with d rail- road company to install on all trans Siberian and A hour trains. The New York Telegraph stated recently that motion pictures had been taken of the riots in Colorado during the recent miners strike there, these pie lures to be used for the purpose of identifying parties taking part in this disturbances l could continue speak ing of the various uses to which motion pictures are put for an in definite time. Nothing ever invented has done much to enlarge the scope of the average mans Knowledge of things as they are. Thru the medium of pictures vt see strange people in their home lands: we learn their customs and see them, not thru print, but as tho We were with them. The important happenings of the