Barker's World Picture Stories

              BARKER'S WORLD PICTURE STORIES

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Yesterday and Today At Work and At Play
In

MOTION PICTURES
COLORED VIEWS
PICTORIAL EFFECTS

With
ENTERTAINING STORIES ENTERTAININGLY TOLD

Presented by
Frederick Russell Clark

Produced and Presented by
THE BARKER-SWAN SERVICE

PEOPLES GAS BUILDING, CHICAGO
Producers of Worth-While Motion Pictures, Slides and Lectures

Picture Stories Designed and Written by EDWIN L. BARKER
Illustrations by P. W. SWAN




The First Reaper—2000 Years Old

THE DAWN OF PLENTY
(The Story of Bread)
This Picture Story carries you around the world and from the beginning of time down to now.  It traces the rise of agriculture—how we get enough to eat.  It shows how plenty to eat has given us prosperity and happiness.  Every factory, every railroad, every skyscraper is a monument to cheap bread.

There never has been an entertainment like this—an entertainment so full of the unexpected.  A story that grips, and tickles, and inspires—a story that moves swiftly from beautiful picture to beautiful picture; from pleasant surprise to pleasant surprise.



THE DAWN OF PLENTY IN PICTURES
Synopsis of the Beautifully Colored Views and Motion Pictures Which Help to Make the Dawn of Plenty an Evening of Delightful Entertainment

(THE ITALICS INDICATE MOTION PICTURES)

THE Dawn of Plenty.  A Field of Wheat.  Every Morning the World Wakes up Hungry.  Bread.  Famine.  Bread Riots in New York.  Prairie Paradise of the Farmer.  Pestilence at Noonday.  The Bleached Bones of Millions.  Slaves at Work in the Fields.  The Man with the Hoe.  Hannibal Crossing the Alps.  Surrender of Cornwallis.  Great Battleships.  An Ancient Warrior.  A Hobo Refusing a Handout.  Willing Hands.  Ancient Wooden Plow.  The Basket Reaper Pushed by an Ox.  Plowing in Egypt.  Irrigation Ditches in Egypt.  Sowing the Grain, Fertilizing a Field, Using the Reaping Hook, Threshing the Grain, Grinding the Flour, and Baking the Bread in Egypt.  The American Farmer.  Ancient Reaping Hook.  Truck Patches.  Agriculture, the First Industry.  Ox-cart Machine.  The Scythe.  The Cradle.  The First Reaper.  Where Wheat Was Not Grown 80 Years Ago.  The First Reaper's First Improvement.  The Self-rake Reaper.  A Work of 10 Years.  The Marsh Harvester.  The Man Who Invented Binder Twine.  The Wire Binder.  The Twine Binder.  A Ball of Twine.  Five Thousand Years Versus Fifty Years.  The Heart of Civilization and Prosperity.  Golden Fields.  Making and Selling the Things We Eat and Wear and Use.  The Tragedy of the Wheat.  Reaping Wheat with a Reaping Hook.  Threshing Wheat with Flails.  The Ox-cart Reaper.  The Scythe.  The Cradle.  The First Reaper at Work in the Field.  The First Self-rake Reaper.  The Modern Self-rake.  The Marsh Harvester.  The Modern Binder.  Three Binders Pulled by an Oil Tractor.  Shockers That Shock the Wheat.  The Combined Harvester and Thresher.  The Old Wooden Moldboard Plow.  The Steel Plow.  The Sulky Plow.  One Tractor Pulling 18 Plows.  Three Tractors Pulling 55 Plows.  A Boating Scene in Moroland.  Moonlight at the Soo.  Early Method of Transportation.  Our Great Railroads.  Transportation in India.  San Francisco in 1831.  A String of Mountain Burros.  San Francisco Today.  Chicago in 1831.  Chicago Today.  Great Manufacturing Plants.  Cities with Magnificent Skyscrapers.  Great Institutions of Learning.  The Backbone of Prosperity.  The Rail Splitter of Illinois.  A Plentiful Harvest.  Steele's Tavern in Virginia.  The First Tryout of the First Reaper.  The Inventor of the First Reaper.  Other Inventors.  The Soil as a Producer.  People and Pigs.  240,000 Bushels of Wheat.  Plenty of Bread.  What One American Harvest Could Buy.  The Run-down Farm.  An Up-to-date Farm.  Haying.  Baling Hay with a Motor Press.  Raking the Hay.  The Hay Loader.  Lifting a Load of Hay into the Barn.  A Modern Home.  The White House.  An Aeroplane.  Abraham Lincoln.  A Business Farmer's Office.  Unproductive Wilderness.  The Cotton Industry.  One Nation.  Flour Mill in India.  India's Beautiful Temples.  The Great Wall of China.  Chinese Boats.  Transportation in China.  A Chinese Flour Mill.  Washday in Korea.  Where the West Meets the East.  Among the Moros.  The Tractor of India.  Harvesting Rice in Ceylon.  Threshing in Korea.  A Korean Grist Mill.  German Farmers.  Intensive Farming in Germany.  Paddy Fields in China.  Washington City from the Top of Washington Monument.  The Congressional Library.  Pennsylvania Avenue.  The Great Napoleon.  Philosophers of Old.  Pyramids of Egypt.  Ruins of Roman Temples.  Wheat, Meat and Rice.  A Cotton Field.  A Peacock.  An Old Hen and Her Chicks.  A Big City at Night.  Inventors of the Age.  This New World of Ours.  A Storm at Sea.  Christopher Columbus.  Liberty Bell.  Beautiful Sunset on a Day of Plenty.





One of the First Steam Engines

THE DAWN OF POWER
(The Story of the Wheel)
To see and hear this Picture Story is like being present at a procession of the ages.  The world is seen to turn from nowhere to somewhere.  Plodding along, man evolves a stick into an engine, a footpath into a railroad, a skin into cloth, a cave into a house.

Back of almost every picture is a smile, and back of that is a thought.  To see the first wheels grow into the all-powerful modern wheels—wheels that do the world's work and give us time to play—to see this is to see that which is rarely seen.



THE DAWN OF POWER IN PICTURES
Synopsis of the Beautifully Colored Views and Motion Pictures Which Help to Make the Dawn of Power an Evening of Delightful Entertainment

(THE ITALICS INDICATE MOTION PICTURES)

THE Human Burden Bearer.  The Indian Drag.  The Prairie Schooner.  The Fast Express.  The Wheel that Turns the World.  A Battle with Nature.  The First Man and Woman.  Conquering Nature.  Primitive Man.  A Tool-making Animal.  The Power of Nature.  Where Power Begins.  Nature on a Spree.  Keokuk Dam.  Building the Pyramids.  The Vaterland.  Ancient Civilization.  Playtime.  At the Ball Game.  The Big Stick.  The Principle of the Lever.  Carrying the Burden.  Ships of the Desert.  The Indian Drag.  The Philippine Drag.  The First Wheel.  Solid Wheels.  The Wheel Grows Larger.  The Galley Boat.  Boats in Moroland.  The Dutch Dog-cart.  The Treadmill.  The One-hoss Shay.  Irish Jaunting Car.  The Stagecoach.  The Buggy.  The Omnibus.  The Prairie Schooner.  The Schooner Attacked by Indians.  Watt and the Teakettle.  The First Steam Engine.  The Second Steam Engine.  The Windmill.  The Turbine.  An Old Dutch Sailing Wagon.  The First Balloon.  Modern Balloon.  The First Engine that Worked.  The Boy Who Gave Us Time for Play.  Watt's Engine.  The Long, Dark Centuries.  The Dawn of a New Power.  The Pilgrim Fathers.  The First Locomotive.  The Flying Dutchman.  The First Steam Locomotive.  The Steam Carriage.  The Original Steam Roller.  Grandfather of the Hydroplane.  The First Steam Carriage Line.  The Horse Going to the Dogs.  The First Locomotive to Do Actual Work.  Stephenson's Locomotive.  The Rocket The Mazeppa.  Peter Cooper.  Cooper's Locomotive.  An Old-fashioned Locomotive.  A Wood Burner.  The Great Railroad System.  Giant Mogul.  Taking Water on the Fly.  Boats in India.  Building a Rudder.  Building Big Boats.  Hudson's Half Moon.  Fulton's Clermont.  The Largest Load of Cotton.  The Half Moon and Clermont in Action.  Old-time Boats.  The Water Wheel.  A Japanese Water Wheel.  The Roosevelt Dam.  Foot-power Wheel.  Horse-power Wheel.  In the Edison Plant.  The Old Mill.  Niagara Falls.  The Work of the Chemist.  The Gas Engine.  The Automobile.  The Bicycle.  The First Auto.  The Meeting of the Past and the Present.  An Automobile Race.  The First Factory.  Elbow Grease.  Woman's Work is Never Done.  Churning Butter Along the River Nile.  Wind Power on the Farm.  The Daily Mail.  Farm Power House, Showing How Power Does Much of the Work on the Farm.  Indian Weaver.  The Spinning Wheel.  When Woman Did Most of the Work.  Old-fashioned Kitchen.  The Early Factory.  When Everybody Worked.  The Boston Tea Party.  The Struggles of Inventors.  The Factory Gave Labor a Value.  Power.  The Power that Destroys.  The Same Power Made to Do the World's Work, to Dig Ditches, to Plant Trees, to Blow Up Stumps.  The First Printing Press.  A Modern Press.  Printing the Daily Paper, Supplement and All.  Generating Power.  The Old Horse-car.  The Third-rail Cars.  The Greatest Electric-car Center in the World.  The Old Power and the Newest Power.  The Village Blacksmith.  A Big Steel Plant.  The Electric Crane.  Biting Holes in the Earth.  Building the Panama Canal.  The Old Cobbler.  A Cobbler in China.  Making Shoes the Modern Way.  The First Elevator.  Sawing Lumber in China.  A Sawmill in Operation in Cashmere.  The Old Coffee-pot Mill.  The Modern Sawmill.  The Old Wagon Shop.  Great Wagon Works.  The Farmer's Corn Crib.  The Wagon Maker.  Making Wagons the New Way—Mortising the Hubs, Driving the Spokes, Striping the Wheels.  Sisal Plantation in Yucatan.  Cutting and Carrying Sisal Leaves.  Taking Out the Fibre.  Drying the Sisal.  Making the Sisal into Bales.  Making the Sisal into Twine.  Winding the Twine into Balls.  Planning the World's Work.  A Field of Flax.  A Burning Straw Stack.  Where Success Failed.  Climbing Soldier's Summit.  The City of Pleasure.  The Aeroplane.  The Ferris Wheel.  The Great White Way.  The Wireless.  The Wheel that Feeds Us.  Carrying Us to Work.  The Power of the Wheel.  Blowing Up the Dikes at Panama.





The Beginning of Business—The First Store



THE DAWN OF COMMERCE
(The Story of Business)
Here is a Picture Story that touches your pocketbook.  It tells you why you have money, or why you haven't, and how you can make more.  There is just one road that leads straight to prosperity, and this Picture Story takes you along that road—takes you all the way—takes you across the seas, high in the air, deep into the earth's depths—and brings you back home.

The ever-changing pictures are a revelation.  This Story of Business is a picture album of the world today, with all the interesting things pointed out.



THE DAWN OF COMMERCE IN PICTURES
Synopsis of the Beautifully Colored Views and Motion Pictures Which Help to Make the Dawn of Commerce an Evening of Delightful Entertainment

(THE ITALICS INDICATE MOTION PICTURES)

PROLOGUE—Residence Street, Schoolhouse, Business Section, Railroad, and Factory in the Old Home Town.  The Home Town.  People Who Wear Shoes.  People Who Do Not.  Sidewalks and Pavements.  A Look at Prosperity.  The Corner Sre.  At the Bank.  Big Lumber Yards.  The Stone Quarry.  Building a Building.  Drayloads of Goods.  The Beginning of Prosperity.  Manufactured Goods.  Never-ending Traffic of Exchange.  A Busy Factory.  Wall Street.  Work for Men and Women.  A Group of Home-town Folks.  The Home-town Factory.  The Factory Closes Its Doors.  Families Move Away.  Abandoned Homes.  An Abandoned Street.  A Closed Store.  A Block of Abandoned Stores.  The Abandoned Lumber Yard.  A Dreary Waste.  Riding the Bumpers.  The Home Town at Dawn.  The Home Town as a Community.  A Group of Communities.  A Group of Groups of Communities.  Making a Map of the United States.  Panorama of Chicago.  Seeing a City from an Aeroplane.  The Big World.  Hongkong, China.  God's Country.  On the Shores of the U. S. A.  The Big Rolling Sea. Storm Off the Coast of Ceylon.  A Herd of Buffalo.  The Indian.  The Pirate Ship.  Off the Spanish Seacoast.  The Place Where Business Began.  The First Market Place.  The Peddler with a Pack.  The Peddler with a Wagon.  The Early Store.  A. T. Stewart's Business Palace.  The First Department Store.  The First Typewriter.  Robert Owen.  Josiah Wedgwood.  Home of an English Workman.  Home of an American Workman.  A Workman's Club.  The Spirit of the Hive.  Raw Materials, Labor and Capital.  The Farmer and His Corn.  Natural Resources.  Where Cotton is King.  Exporting Our Raw Material.  The Lone Oak.  The Oak Chopped Down.  The Oak Sawed into Lumber.  The Wood Carver.  A Table.  Taking a Snapshot.  A Story of Iron.  Blast Furnace.  Pile of Pig Iron.  A Bessemer Converter.  Steel Ingots.  Thousands of Pens.  Labor Makes the World Go Round.  Pay Day.  Planning a Building.  Eads Bridge.  The Overtime that Pays.  You and Business.  Grand Opera. Caruso.  The $50,000-a-year Business Man.  A Bread Line.  War.  The Largest Chimney in the World.  A Small War.  The Most We Have to Sell is Labor.  The Way People Hustle After Seeing the Dawn of Commerce.  A Quiet Spot.  Made in U. S. A.  How to Get Rich.  The Kaiser as a Business Man. Hamburg.  Herr Albert Ballin.  Big Ships.  War is a Fight for Commerce.  Three Greatest Export Nations.  What the United States Has Done.  What England Has Done.  What Germany Has Done.  New York Harbor.  Our Export Trains.  The Money that Comes Back.  Poverty in India.  The Panama Canal.  Going Through the Canal.  The Harbors of the World.  Little Belgium.  Artistic Temperament.  Dollar Diplomacy.  American Legation at London.  Queen Elizabeth's Court.  A Street in Paris.  Paris Fashions.  Italian Ruins.  Italian Scenery.  Italian Business.  Russia and the Future.  Loading Boats in Ceylon.  Big Elevators.  Pillsbury Mill.  Advance Agents of Commerce.  James J. Hill.  American Salesmen.  Farming on the Other Side of the World.  Omsk, Siberia.  A French Seaport.  An American Wheat Field.  A Wheat Field in Sweden.  A Field in Germany.  A Field in Russia.  Going Through Belle Isle Park, Detroit.  Shiploads of Autos.  Increased Auto Trade.  Doing Duty in China.  Darkest Africa.  Street Car in India.  On a Foreign Shore.  A McCutcheon Cartoon.  Homeward Bound.  Statue of Liberty.  Green Fields.  Glowing Furnaces.  The Frame of Memory.  James Watt.  George Stephenson.  Ely Whitney.  Richard Arkwright.  Elias Howe.  Cyrus McCormick.  Robert Fulton.  Robert Morse.  Alexander Bell.  George Pullman.  Thomas Edison.  Back to the Old Home Town.  Our Own Home.  Turning On the Lights.  The Evening Story.  Good Night.