The C. J. Hite Company: Chautauqua moving picture attraction

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The C. J. Hite Company
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Chautauqua Moving Picture Attraction

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ILLUSTRATED SONGS, PICTURES WITH SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENTS

Management of MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU



C. J. Hite Company (Inc.)
Chautauqua Moving Picture Attraction

MOVING PICTURES are no longer a fad.  They have taken such a prominent place in the graphic illustration of everyday events the world over, that they have now become indispensable.  They reveal the wonders of Nature and Science with a comprehensiveness and detail which were formerly undreamed of.  The leaders of science and education are to-day advocating the use of Moving Pictures as a means of vividly and truthfully bringing the great world to the very door of the onlooker.  They are the most delightful achievement of the age.

THE public demands that Moving Pictures be utilized in connection with every series of entertainment whose purpose is to amuse and instruct, and that same public is willing to pay a good price for their entertainment, but they demand in return an evenly balanced program of bright, new and high class subjects.



THE C. J. HITE CO. (Inc.) dealers and importers of the best of the foreign art producers, is the best equipped concern in the world to-day, offering a moving picture attraction to Chautauqua managers.  They have devoted years to mutography, have had a vast experience as exhibitors in first class Chautauquas in the United States.

Mr. Hite has taken a leading part in all movements to uplift the moving picture industry.  The subjects utilized by this company are selected with great care, and a presentation given that is unique, educational and instructive

A musical program arranged with excellent taste follows the progress of the pictures.

By the use of appropriate sounds a perfect illusion of reality is produced.  The sound effects are excellently reproduced which makes it more than the ordinary moving picture exhibition and lends reality to the picture.

The vast library of 3000 subjects, which the C. J. Hite Co. has to offer makes it a simple matter to select of the choicest scenic, industrial, comedy, educational, religious and dramatic films.  They are of the highest class, morally and photographically, portraying clean comedy and drama of the highest order, as well as the best travel subjects made.





THIS CLASS OF ENTERTAINMENT WAS given at the Auditorium, the largest seating theatre in Chicago, during the summer season of 1908.  The press has this to say:


VARIETY
The much heralded series of pictorial reproductions, involving the minutest detail and effect heretofore unknown to the moving picture industry, was disclosed at the big Auditorium for the first time on last Sunday evening. before a large, appreciative and interested audience.


SHOW WORLD JUNE 5
The amazement of the audience manifested itself in a murmur of surprise, finally breaking forth in thunderous applause, and thereafter expressions of appreciation were not lacking.


CHICAGO DAILY NEWS JUNE 1ST
The most delightful achievement in this animated melodrama is the actual picturing turing of moving smoke which pours from lighted torches held high in air by picturesque costumed knights in search of the escaping lovers.  To be able to photograph smoke in action is nearly completing the possibilities of the moving picture.  It is really charming, this pretty story, in dumb and lively dramatic action.  It is at least a revival of that most eloquent and exquisite of art—pantomime—which is so neglected and forgotten in America.


SHOW WORLD JUNE 6TH
The sound effects are excellently reproduced, including the galloping horses, the clanging of the bells, the hiss of the steam as the water is thrown upon the flames, and the roar of the multitude.


HARRY DODDS.
IN ILLUSTRATED SONG AND SOUND EFFECT



SHOW WORLD JUNE 6TH
The first performance in Chicago of moving pictures, presented in a high class manner, with sound and light effects, took place in the Auditorium theater, Sunday, May 31, and proved a tremendous success.


FORREST ARDEN IN CHICAGO EXAMINER
The Passing Show is nothing more nor less than moving pictures, but the selections of subjects, the detail with which they are worked out and the marvellous mechanical contrivances that back them up place them as far above the ordinary moving pictures as the Brussels Sprout is above the Barnyard Cabbage.
It seemed rather odd to be looking at a cinematograph in Chicago's largest playhouse at 25 cents a head, but there was nothing in the performance that lowered the dignity of the theater or did discredit to the names of those distinguished composers that flashed into view around the magnificent arch of the stage whenever the spotlight was turned on.


The Moving Pictures are accompanied with the illustrative sounds operated so deftly as to make them seem extremely realistic.

It is something different in the line of summer shows.

The great popularity of the moving pictures throughout the length and breadth of the civilized world, bears ample testimony to the hold which this class of entertainment has upon the people.




The Chronophone
Animated Pictures that talk, sing and live as the perfect embodiment of the real being

BY means of the Chronophone is presented a picture that actually sings and talks as in real life.  The pictures of the actors on the screen not only move in pantomime, but their lips move and there appears to issue from them the words just as from the lips of a living person.  This the Chronophone accomplishes by a perfect system of electrical synchronism between the projecting and talking machines.  This machine has met with the greatest success in most of the prominent places of Europe.  It is a marvel of scientific discovery.  Simultaneously with the music, the singer is seen in the act of rendering the song; the gestures and play of the performers' features are timed exactly to the delivery of the voice reproduction.

These Moving-talking-pictures are the top notch of scientific entertainment.



THE CHRONOPHONE has scored a wonderful success at the London Hippodrome and at the command of the Queen a special performance was given at Buckingham Palace.

The Chronophone subjects embrace everything from popular songs to grand opera, such as scenes from Faust, Cavaleria Rusticana, Carmen and The Mikado; songs of sterling worth such as The Palms, Bedouin Love Song, Good Bye, etc.

The C. J. Hite Company is fully equipped to place the Chronophone programs with managers who are desirous of having a topnotcher for their Chautauqua.  This Company is the first to make it possible for Chautauquas to secure this elaborate attraction, which has not yet been produced outside of the large cities.

The Chronophone programs will not be supplied unless previously arranged for.  It is an expensive production requiring experts to manipulate it.  Electricity is a necessary adjunct.

Only a limited number of contracts will be placed for the Chronophone Season 1909.  Managers must contract early to secure it.

C. J. HITE CO.
(Inc.)
441 Monadnock Block Chicago