South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-27
MoUieS to axe
irSt Place in
World Industry
DR.. John Talbot Smith, Now
at NOtre Dame, Tells of
Films Importance.

| mat the moving picture Industry
is likely TO 90 from third TO first
place among the leading industries
OF the world because Of a new inven-
tion called the "spirograph," was
the opinion expressed by Or. John
Talbot Smith. noted author and
stage authority. to a News-Times re-
porter Wednesday.
This instrument which weighs but
II pounds and costs only SIS. is cap
able Of transferring moving pictures
from a small revolving disk 10 a
wall or any other background, WORK
ing on much the same principles as
our modern photograph. and is
destined 20 become as much a part
/ Of the modern home as music re-
/ producers have, according 10 DR..
sPith.
For General Use.
! Because Of it's portableness and
resulting advantages OF being able to
show pictures anywhere, the spira-
graph will soon be used in the home.
| theater, business. and educational
worlds, thereby increasing the NOV
| ing picture field 10 such an extent
that there is every reason to believe
| that IL will advance TO first place
among the leading industries Of the
world" said Father Smith.
"A man named Urban. living in
Dobbs Ferry, n. Y. is said TO have
paid $4,000 for a small cardboard
/ English model of the photographic
idea and 10 have perfected Il in this
country TO such an extent that al
ready ne has received an order for
$500 machines from the New York
| City school board and he has been
literally swamped with orders since
news Of his invention leaked out"
Instead of the usual cumbersome
machines. the lightest of which
weighs 200 lbs. and the gliding film
that is used. the spiragraph, as
described by DR.. Smith. will usr a
thin non-breakable celuloid reco I
which will revolve as photograph
| records do and with light obtained
by attaching the machine to any
electric light socket. pictures may
be shown anywhere. A resulting in
| crease in the already enormous de-
mand for movie material will surely
result from the appearance of the
spiragraph on the market Educa-
tional institutions especially, will find
great use for the spiragraph In illus
trating points under discussion.
Movie statesmen will no longer be re-
quired to give special showings OF
Il Inns Of t0dE Of 4erk
| day when the theater machines are
not in use. but can carry their offer
/ ings 10 the Office of the theaJer man.
ager and show him their films mer-
/ its, on the wall.
Reason for Growth.
There are three very good rea-
I sons why the moving picture in
| dustry will continue to grow" said
| Dr. Smith First Of all because It
| is the third largest money-making
| Industry in the world. secondly be-
cause II is fine entertainment. and
| third. because OF the astounding va
riety OF uses 10 which every depart
ment OF social activity put it."
"A gradual Improvement IS bound
| 10 come in the standard of moving
pictures because the public has seen
! enough OF the better films to make
/ them disguised with those of the in
/ ferior variety. From the beginning
/ TO now the moving picture industry
/ has been solely in the hands OF COM
mercial men whose only idea in pro-
| ducing was the profit or loss TO re-
/ suit. The demand became so enor-
nous that writer's could not supply
material fast enough and the money
10 be made attracted every Tom
| Dick and Harry into the game
I Every story whether good, bad or
! Indifferent. was shoveled through
like coal into a furnace in order to
get the awaiting money"
Closer Touch.
! Such slip-shod methods brought
| the drama in to great disfavor and
the discriminating public has show
ed its disapproval by not patronizing
| these loosely gotten up films. Theirs
Is now a movement for improve
ment Of the moral side OF the NOV
/ les as well as of the stories used