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Title: Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Cinema News
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine nyarc-museumofmodernart
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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quality of Essanavproductions. Where can you find better talent than on the Londonstage to-day? You have the best—undoubtedly the best in theworld—and plenty of it, and that being so, English films shouldat least be equal to the best. The talent lies right at your door.It is only a question of employing it, and getting the artist toappreciate the value of facial expression and gesture. In myopinion, the English film is making splendid advances, and I saythis despite statements to the contrary. The Englishman is hisown greatest slanderer. He slanders himself more than anvoneslanders him—you understand my meaning? An Assured Future. The future? I think the cinematograph industry has animmense future before it, and many important developmentswill come in course of time. It is even now in a state of evolu-tion. The busineswill change,of course, but as to its per-manency, I do not think thereis any question at all. Whatsay ycu ? March, 1912. THE CINEMA. 19 OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. fttt
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ESSANAY. ■ 20 THE CINEMA. March, 1912. CHRISTOPHER ! INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE SELIG COMPANYS GREAT HISTORICAL FILM, AND A CHAT WITH MIL MONTAGU. ^HOSE of us who have seen the Selig Polyscope Com- panys film, Christopher Columbus, must neecuA be acutely interested in the production. When we ™™HI see upon the screen the statement that the ships■Scfffe>»l used are genuine reproductions of the caravels of■«■■»» Columbus sent by the Spanish Government to theColumbian Exhibition, it is obvious that a big story is in-volved. Fired with enthusiasm, therefore, I hurried off to inter-view Mr. E. H. Montagu, the representative of the Sel g Com-pany for all the world outside of North America. How the Film was Made. I found Mr. Montagu in his office, wearing a big cigar andno coat (this is his invariable habit—he says that it enable:*Him to think quicker), and in asubdued voice I asked him how onearth the Selig Company had man-aged to produce such a film. Well, said he, it

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