CORONATION FILMS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2787, 8 May 1911, Page 3

CORONATION FILMS.

RECORDS IN CINEMATOGRAPHY.

Elaborate arrangements are already being made by cinematograph firms for securing records of the events of Coionation Day. Their task is made the greater by the demand of proprietors of picture theatres that the films shall be supplied for exhibition the same night. In all probability, indeed, the events of the day in London will be reproduced

in moving pictures in the theatres in

Paris late in the evening,

One or two of the more ambitious firms are hopeful of obtaining sanction to be present at the actual crowning ceremony, but even if this were granted the bad artificial lighting in the Abbey would render the taking of moving pictures impossible. It could only be done by the aid ot powerful electric lights placed round the walls.

The film which will be rushed over to Pans will show the progress of the King j and Queen trom Buckingham Palace to the entrance of the Abbey. Their Majesties will leave Buckingham Palace about noon. A number of operators will be staitoned along the route. After taking their pictures they will catch the 2.20 train from Charing Cross, develop the films en route, and arrive in .Paris soon aiter nine o'clock, in time for a special exhibition. Films will be despatched by the first foreign mail after the ceremony to all "parts of the globe. Efforts are to be made to exhibit them the same evening at Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds, and Birmingham. Roughly speaking, each film will meas-

ure between 500 and 800 feet, the purchase price varying from ,£8 to £12, but longer films will be necessary on the day of the Royal progress through London.

Extra operators are to be brought over from Paris and Berlin, and at the end of the season the leading firms will have ready a special film chronicling all the important events of this Coronation year, including the naval and military review at Spithead aad Aldershot, and the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon. ■ ■ As soon as the Coronation season is over the. firms will concentrate their energies on the Delhi Durbar, and a small army-ot operators are to be sent out.