The four stars of the world champion Philadelphia Athletics — Chief Bender, Cy Morgan, Jack Coombs and Rube Oldring — were featured in the Thanhouser Company film, The Baseball Bug (1911)[2]
English: Photograph of the stars of the Thanhouser Company film The Baseball Bug (1911)Left to right: Big Chief Bender, Henry Richard Morgan, Jack Coombs and Robert E. Oldring More information Identifier: movingpicturenew04unse (find matches) Title: Moving Picture News (1911) Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: motion pictures Publisher: Cinematograph Publishing Company Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: le Film Exchange,paid a visit to the city this week. Mr. Jack Read, Jr., will leave very shortly on a trip toJapan for the purpose of exhibiting to the Japanese publicthe excellent moving pictures which he secured of the Amer-ican sojourn of their beloved Admiral Togo. Mr. Isidor Bernstein has been engaged as assistant man-ager of the Republic Film Company. Bernie assures usthat great things are in store for the exhibitor who will useRepublic films. All who know Bernie are aware of thatenergy and enthusiasm with which he is constantly bubblingover, and we therefore feel assured that the Republic withMr. Herbert Miles and Mr. Isidor Bernstein at the head ofaffairs cannot fail to push forward to a great success. Mr. Marvin, of the Biograph Company, has given movingpicture circles something interesting to talk about, by hav-ing filmed the rehearsal of the wedding ceremony of hisdaughter. This is a novelty and will doubtless serve as aprecedent for many others. THE AlOVING PICTURE NEWS 35 Text Appearing After Image: BENDER MORGAN COOMBS OLDRING INDEPENDENTS CAPTURE CHAMPION BALLPLAYERS—BENDER, COOMBS, MORGAN ANDOLDRING APPEAR IN THANHOUSER FILM Stars of the Athletics Are Seen as Actors in The BaseballBug Comedy Reel BENDER, Coombs! Morgan! Oldring!Theyre picture plajers!Now let the hearts of all fans rejoice, for the fourstars of the star Philadelphia Athletics will be with them oncemore, though the season is over. And it will be a diversionto see them as actors—to see if they face the camera as con-fidently as they did Mathewson. In advance, let it be said that they did. They enacted their roles at the Thanhouser studio with theprecision of veteran photoplayers, and they even played astage game of ball with all the enthusiasm they manifesteain their battles on the genuine diamond. With characteristic film-makers enterprise, the Than-houser people set to capturing the Athletic cracks as soonas it became evident that the Athletics would win the WorldsChampionship. As soon as the ball players w Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.