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"Documentaries in 1910 From Dramatic Mirror July
The kinetogram (the bi-monthly bulletin of the Edison Company) announces that the Edison Company recently made special arrangements with the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company to take an Edison crew of photographers and a selected stock company of players by special train to Vancouver, stops being made on the way to enact dramatic subjects in appropriate localities. The party left June 22 and are now at work. That's the time Sir Wilfrid Laurier went out West for three months by train of course to campaign for free trade and the time CPR hired Thomas Edison's Film Company to create films to 'advertise the west' to Americans.
Fight Film is Out Large Crowds, but no race feeling and no children. Pictures remarkably clear and complete.
The first public exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures were given Saturday night at Percy William's Vaudeville houses, including the Alhambra in Harlem and the Crescent in Brooklyn. Although little advance publicity had been done, attendance was large. The film as exhibited at the Williams' houses is remarkably clear, showing scenes at the training quarters, in the arena before the fight and interesting moments during the progress of the fight. The pictures are probably the best ever taken of a pugilistic affair. The J and J Company is receiving a vast number of bids from all parts of the world for State, territorial and county rights Many of these bids are of a percentage nature which the company does not seem inclined to consider. The agitation against the film has continued in different parts of the country with varying success, although the fact the film is not intended for release in five and ten cent theatres has taken the ground out from under most of the crusaders, whose special argument was that the film would be harmful to women and children. In New York Mayor Gaynor said there is no law that warranted his interference. Censors in San Francisco were meeting to decide the matter for that city. The New York World editorially notes a striking phase of the prohibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures is that the opposition flourishes in those countries where white men are engaged in governing black men without their consent. Strange, isn't it, that so many white men throughout the world should tremble so at one husky black man's pugilistic victory over a white man? And it is the film story of the event that is feared most - an unconscious acknowledgement of the power of the motion picture!
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