CORONATION PICTURE FILMS.

Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 8

CORONATION PICTURE FILMS.

Two Tnmclre.l, mllra <-t cinematograph fiioi f.-r one .-übjcit! It looks importable-. but it was the intimate of the 'Daily Xfcwi-' of the length of him thnt w.mk! \.k----t..-rd by oper.uo-.-> engaged in reccnlLiii; the CoroiWticn procc-eicm. The business of the ] RKOluit e<> us t" .-upnlv the world with niins ;ui iin-itH-ns'v amount of preparation. Fourteen tomrunits wtro in the work. Xo op?i":itois wffli- allowed in»kle> the Abbey, but the Offiiv of Works, for the hr.-t time. gave the oironojtf.crapii olneial recognition hi- 'ii-k'inu' pi"vj>ii;n for operators on the JevcMiment >Lar<i* aionrj the tcute. The *omrvtitkm between the companies w.ts KcTcelv kwii. For some time it has been the praitiee to aho.v an the theatric "E London ati.l the provii.ie* i inematograph picture.- of events on the night of the day th«v take pLure. and this course was to be followed in the or.«e "f the Coronation in - 500 theatres in and around the capital. It . ja the orders from abroad 'that caused •liOttetv These: were pocnn£ in when the * IJai'.v XevrsV article appeared. "I want 10 000 ft of the Coronation." wrote an American manager; " pleafie despatch with- • out delay. I will send a tug to meet . Afauretania on axriv;d .it Xew York." A ■lVtho Fneres -said that a. >o Coronation Day might train or a steamer, an.'. loss of thousands of 'ear that the railway eerdiscrsaJtised. motor ears o take tiiurs to the prin■he Freres were to make rrt- to catch the 2.20 p.m. from Charing Cross. Ar-

ranceunenta had ben made for developing "the films in the train or on the Channel boat. and. if all went well, the pictures would be shown in nine or ten theatres in Paris shortlv after 9 that night; while within 24 hour,; of the ceremony they wo>i!d oe'eeon bv thousands of peop.e an other towns of Western Europe. The great fear of the companies was that their operatoi* miclit Ji-jt he able to extricate themevlves trem the va't crowds: in time to enable the alms to. be put on to certain j trains. ____________.