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supply to exhibitors and storerooms were con-
yerted into theaters in all parts OF the country
In less than two years more than ten tnousanu
picture theaters we're opened In the united
States The number In New York city alone 10
tailed more than 1900 January !, 1907, and IN
Chicago there were 500 Of mushroom growth
Many motion picture producing plants were es-
tablished in many cities, and the Aim supply
proved abundant for the rapidly increasing mum
Der of theaters But there was no system TO tne
production, the making OF prints, preparing au,
yertising matter for exhibitors, or giving heeu
to what Is today considered the most importar'
phase OF the business-that Of arranging weir
balanced program
Manufacturers saw the necessity OF not only
making the subjects, but also maintaining tneH
own system Of exchanges for the purpose OF saie
guarding their own interests by confronting .no
films. and merged their interests In releasing
companies. Now there are no less than ten cor
porations composed Of owners of producing com
panes that have national releasing systems. with
exchanges In all principal cities. These are capi
talized in the millions and one Is reputed to nave
made 1000 per cent profit, while on the otner
hand others have operated continuously al ioss'
With the formation OF big releasing COM
panies and the general Improvement OF conditions
of the industry, with regard to all phases, the
most important to the ten millions OF people OF
ing of motion pictures is the great change for the
betterment of production and the realization by
the manufacturers OF the possibilities OF photo
plays
In the Standardization of the film the celluloid
striu was gradually reduced in size from one hav
ing a picture two inches wide and one and one
half inches Deep to uniform size of picture, three
fourths of an inch deep by one inch In width.
There are sixteen separate pictures to each ineal
foot of film, or 10000 to a reel OF 1000 feet,
which. when properly projected, is run on In
eighteen minutes Few motion picture elovers
know that every minute approximately one thou
sand separate pictures are projected on the
screen, each one separated from the adjoining
one by black line of the thickness OF an aver
age calling card.
still stranger, 1t may seem, is the TACT that
about one-fcurth OF the time the pictures are
hidden from view OF the audience and the screen
"a black This is caused by a revolving fan wheel
or shutter passing In front of the projecting lens
each time the film is advanced from one picture
10 another by the intermittent sprocket move
ment A thousand feet OF hlm which passes
through the projecting machine Is stationary
three-fourths OF the eighteen minutes required
IN nroiecting Il, and in action but approximately
four and half minutes. This prevents blurrins
of the pictures and makes each individual picture
or frame sharp from point OF locus- Ahs piS
lures are magnihed from two to four hundred
times their actual size by the projection, accord
ing 10 the size OF the screen, distance from the
lens and the lens itself
The making Of motion pictures Is most interest
ing. and all studios are visited daily by hundreds
At few visitors are permitted, but at the ma
iority NO Admittance' sign hangs over tn
entrance and no amount OF talk or money WI
get the stranger past the gates The studio i
reality consists Of an open-air platform. one II
closed entirely by glass or halllike buildin
with movable electric lights Of such candle poWe
, as will make 1t light as day
In all producing plants now the story for tn
nhotoplay Is first written From this is prepare
the scenario which briefly outlines every scen'
describes the settings and action OF the player
when II is considered that each reel OF picture
REQUIRES from fifty to seventy-hve scenes. an
many Of the photoplays,of today consist OF
many as FIVE six and seven reels, while 70
larger ones. such as The Spoilers consisted
nine reels LES Miserables" eight. ~caoiris-
Twelve. and the largest Photoplay yet made. II