Films screenings including 'A Leech of Industry' (3 parts) and 'The Three Mile Limit'; Coming film: 'When Rome Ruled'

Films screenings including 'A Leech of Industry' (3 parts) and 'The Three Mile Limit'; Coming film: 'When Rome Ruled'

To the Editor S. C. M. Post – Mr. J. J. Blake wrote a reply to 'Vox.' – 'There are however limits to film reproduction here which he is probably not aware of. The picture he alludes to and many others equally as informative regarding the war cannot be obtained here for love nor…

Screening of 'New Exploits of Elaine' ('The Pirates of the Air' and 'Two Elaines'), 'The Sixth Commandment', Comic: 'A Very Tough Bird', 'Titi's Day Out', 'The Bowling Match' (Keystone)

Tonight: Screening of 'New Exploits of Elaine' ('The Pirates of the Air' and 'Two Elaines'), 'The Sixth Commandment', Comic: 'A Very Tough Bird', 'Titi's Day Out', 'The Bowling Match' (Keystone)

The management of the Palisade Cinematograph Theatre Kowloon gave a private view to the Press of the British historical film, 'Sixty Years a Queen.' The film was well produced, well-dressed in its characters and is as faithful as a record from early to late Victorian periods. Film…

Change of Programme: Eclair presents 'The Evil Genius', London Film Ltd's 'Clancarty', 'In the Enemy's Lines', 'Panama Canal' (4th Series), 'The District Attorneys Burglar', 'Bloomer's Wedding' and 'The Baggage…

Grand Weekend Programme: Eclair presents 'The Evil Genius', London Film Ltd's 'Clancarty', 'In the Enemy's Lines', 'Panama Canal' (4th Series), 'The District Attorneys Burglar', 'Bloomer's Wedding' and 'The Baggage…

Tonight's Programme: Eclair presents 'The Evil Genius', London Film Ltd's 'Clancarty', 'In the Enemy's Lines', 'Panama Canal' (4th Series), 'The District Attorneys Burglar', 'Bloomer's Wedding' and 'The Baggage…

The growth of juvenile crime is considered to be connected to the growing prevalence of unrestricted attendance of school children at cinema shows. The Association of Head Teachers at Nottingham passed the resolutions to (a) restrict the attendance of children at such shows by fixing a time and…

The 'Whatnots,' a touring company of variety artists, are coming to Hong Kong and will open for a short season at the Victoria Theatre on Tuesday next. They are bringing the latest in song and dance, magic and comedy. The press reports speak very highly of them, and they have had very…

A recent report that the motion-picture business in China is practically confined to the treaty ports and large commercial centres like Shanghai, Tientsin and Hongkong. Shanghai has probably six motion-picture houses while Tientsin and Peking have a smaller number. Film business was run by…

Huchow, January 10 – Snow began to fall on the evening. The Shanghai and Soochow launches have been blocked by the ice. A company from Shanghai has rented a new building and put in a moving picture plant but the magistrate stopped these while the audience expressed their displeasure. The matter…

Eight feet of film is the limit in Pennsylvania for a pictorial kiss that can be considered lawful, while Ohio, Kansas and a few other liberal minded commonwealths allow ten feet to a legal kiss. The long debate included. – American Paper

Buenos Aires, Jan 19 – The special correspondent of the United Press telegraphs an interview with the captain of the Radnoshire. They were boarded by six German officers and their vessel was sunk. Whenever the sinking occurred in daylight, the raider took moving pictures.

The cinematograph is an effect produced by a number of small films aided by magnifying mirrors. This is an age of illusions, for all its enlightenment; and the greatest of all illusions, greater than that of the cinematograph, is that of the newspaper press. – Truth

According to an article in The Times, the new German 'Military Picture and Film Office' gave a press view at the end of last week of its first production, called 'With Our Heroes on the Somme.' According to the account in the Cologne Gazette, there are plenty of pictures of…

The Cinematograph Commission of Inquiry established by the National Council of Public Morals resumed its sittings recently at the Central Hall, Westminster, under the presidency of the Bishop of Birmingham. Mr. John D. Tippett, managing director of the Transatlantic Film Company (Limited), the…

For four nights, beginning from tomorrow, M. Corde Bly, a violinist who comes to the Colony with most excellent credentials, will perform at the Victoria Theatre. The press notices describe him as a musician of a distinctly high order, and we shall look forward to hearing something good.

Film censorship methods were discussed by the Chief Examiner of Films at the Kinema Commission, Central Hall, Westminster recently. Among the general rules continued were the following: No figure of Christ; no nudity; no embraces to overstep the limits of affection; no indecent or suggestive…