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Title: Moving Picture Age (1920)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: motion pictures
Publisher: Class Publications, inc.
Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

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ght the pictures for hisfilm library which is being edited into a motion pictureencyclopedia. He will probably release them very soon,however, as a special subject of immediate interest. Lieutenant von Hoffman had 18,000 feet of filmtelling practically a complete story of the Kolcliak af-fair and lost all but 2,500 feet when the Bolsheviki de-stroyed the Kolchak forces. All but this amount wasdestroyed, not salvaged by the Reds, so the negativevon Hoffman has just sold to Mr. Urban constitutespractically the only record of Admiral Kolchaks ill-fated expedition in Siberia. Von Hoffman is an American citizen of Russianbirth. He fought with the Czars armies in the Russo-Japanese war. He was with the Americans on the Mex-ican border in 1916 and served in the U. S. Signal Corpsafter America entered the World war. Following thearmistice he went to Siberia and joined Kolchak. Please say, As advertised in MOVING PICTURE AGE, when you write to advertisers. September. 1920 MOVING PICTURE AGE 31
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i-;96) Teaching frombooks, maps, or charts is dull at best. Too much brain energyis consumed before sufficient interest is aroused or attention given to thesubject. Motion Pictures Get Attention From the Start Everyone readily understands a picture. Children are enthused, give closerattention, learn more rapidly and retain more thoroughly without exertionwhen taught through the medium of motion pictures. But if the pictureflickers or is not sharp and bright, the eyes suffer and the highest educa-tional value is lost. The American Projectoscope is equipped with apatented shutter which eliminates flicker and eyestrain and allows fullconcentration on the subject. The American Projectoscope The Portable Motion Picture Projecting Machinewithout an apology This portable projector—the case measures 16 long x 7 wideX 18 high—is designed especially for Schools, Colleges,Churches, Clubs. As easy to operate as a phonograph. Aschool boy can do it. Built for wear and hard use. Made error proof

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