PALACE THEATRE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

"BIRTH OF A NATION." j "The Birth of a Nation," founded on Thomas Dixon's story. "The Clansman, ' will be screened at the Palace to-night. Ihe following facts about litis wonderful pictureplay will give some idea of its magnitude: Five thousand scenes, .13.000 characters. 3000 horses; approximate cost of production, COO.OOO dollars—Cities built up and then destroyed by (ire.—The biggest battle of the Civil War re-enacted in a most realistic- maimer. -Ford's Theatre, Washington, reproduced to the smallest detail for the' Lincoln tragedy—A series of wild Ku Klux ••rides" that commandeered a county I for a day and cost 10,000 dollars.—Women's dresses used 12.000 yard-, and Ku l-htx costumes 25.000 yards of cloth. --Night photography of battle scenes, invented and perfected" at a cost of 500 dollars. Wonderful artillerv dueU in which real shells—costing 80 dollars each—were used. Miles ol trenches, thousands of lighters--war as it. actually is.—A musical scoie of 40 pieces syehroi'iised to the several thousand distinct ;."n, individual scenes.- Twelve thousand feet ~, (ilnl in the public picture represent 140,000 feel of aclual photography '1 lie box plan for this production, which takes three hours to show, is now open at Millar's, and attention is drawn to the urices being charged for admission- it iwell known thai in most, towns the prices have been greatly in excess of Balmerston. In Sydney, where it ran for months on end, the price.-, were 6s. 4s. and 2s 6d.