Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1939 — Page 19

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its first “studio.” Joe Aller, a Rus-sian-Jewish lad, who had studied photography, was made plant manager and laboratory technician. Aller, still in the film lab business, now laughs at those early days. “The camera was as large as two telephone booths and was carried on a wagon drawn by horses. Film was a large as a postcard, sold for

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9 cents a foot, $90 a reel.” To Aller is credited the device of printing key numbers on the edge of raw film so that negative and positive could be cut accurately. Eastman leased the device, and all film manufacturers used it. Later, it made possible the synchronization of sound-on-film. In 1909 Henry Lehrman was a street-car conductor, but he didn’t have a one-track mind. Often his car passed the Biograph studio. Came a day—perhaps his day off— when he curled his mustache, put on his nattiest spats and conferred a call on the execs of Biograph. They were flattered to receive “Monsieur Henri Lehrman of Pathe Corporation in Paris.” The disguise didn’t last, but “Pathe” Lehrman did. He had a flare for comedy and is credited with the evolvement of the comedy technique that later made Keystone and Bennett famous. Lehrman was the predecessor of the gag-man. Chaplin Discovered About this time two bookies, Adam Kessel and Charles Bauman, called at Biograph to collect a racing debt from a prop boy. Mack Sennett. Sennett did the talking. When they left, Bison Life Motion Pictures was aborning — Kessel-Bauman-Sennett partners—capital, $2,500, all they had. Their first flicker was “The Disinherited Son’s Loyalty,” which cost $200. Kessel and Bauman were the chief actors. It succeeded better than they dared hope. Next came Davy Crocket in “Hearts Divided.” Kessel was Davy Crocket. In 1910 Kessel and Bauman forned the Reliance, a new cornpar y—hired Thomas Ince to direct at the unprecedented salary of $150 a week and a whole Wild West show' for $2,100 weekly. Result: “Across the Plains,” story of covever wagon days—a, super A production that lifted movies another notch artistically. It was Adam Kessel who discovered the little hobbling comedian he called “Chapman.” Chaplin, fresh from London music halls, never having seen a camera nor a hundred dollars, signed for $150 a week. Was an instant hit in the Kessel-Bauman-Bennet Keystone Comedy, “Kid’s Auto Races.” In Buffalo, Mitchell Mark, a “landsman,” originated the Penny Arcade—put all the penny-in-the-slot machines under one roof—succeeded so well that Adolph Zukor and Morris Kohn opened one with him at Union Square, New York. Mark also was the first motion picture exhibitor. In 1903 he opened Edsonia Hall devoted exclusively to "movies. His Mark Strand Theater, 1914, was the forerunner of modern picture palaces. From 1903 to 1906 the now well(Continued on Page 36)

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