IN NATURE'S OWN TINTS

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13209, 28 September 1915, Page 4

IN NATURE'S OWN TINTS

The public have become so used to the black and white picture, and experimentalists had become so sick of trying to tint pictures, in the likeness of nature that the blaek and white and their half-tones have come to be regarded as the be all and end all of picturedom. The kinemacolour has ended all that. People in London pay treble the prices to seea kinemacolouf picture performance htan they do an ordinary picture show, for the simple reason that the new pictures have all the glowing reality of nature. This is on account of tHe picture being taken by kinemacokmr photograph, the colours are presented to the eye of the camera as well as the form. As one facetious London paper put it, "The camera is a first-cla3s liar compared to the kinemacolour!" which conveys the conviction that another old saying has been proved fallacious. In the kinemacolour "With the Fighting Forces of Europe" the public will see that pictures so wrought must claim the attention of the intelligent. It is all very well seeing the black figure of a man walking down a white road into a black forest, but it is a different thing entirely when one is able to pick out the exact tones and texture of the clothes the man is wearing, when the green fields and the muddygrey of the ditches form a natural setting f-or the brown dusty road, and a dozen tints of green gleam redundant from the forest in the distance. That is the sort of effect one gets in viewing the new picture, and as every vietf has. some military significance, the reader can judge of the interest that is created, and which does not cease from beginning to end. The kinemacolour picture with "The Fighting Forces of Europe" showing the armies and navies of the Allies and of the enemy will commence the Palmerston season with a matinee on Saturday next, and will be shown on Saturday and Monday evenings as well as the Opera House. Box plans will open at Millar's on Thursday.