NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 1 August 1910, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

London, June 4. The Animated Gazette is the last word in journals. Its "co'v;' is measured by the yard, and it has a circulation of ten million copies weekly in all parts of the world.

'lt is the longest journal on recordmore than a thousand feet in length, and it grows longer according to the news of the week. It is not, therefore, on sale at the bookstalls. There is only one way of seeing the news of the week , published in the Animated Gazette, and'that is by watching'lt on a screen. The Animated Gazette is the first cinematograph newspaper. 1 It,: Is published weekly by Messrs Pathg and is to be seen in all the cinematographic theatres. A press representative talked yesterday with its first editor. "The film, which is a very long one," he said, "is produced like an ordinary newspaper.. We have, cinematographers instead of reporters, and these we send out to take living pictures of the principal news of the world. Each country has its editor, who has a corps of correspondents (cinematographic) at his command. Thus, instead of ordering, as the editor ,of the printed paper would, a column or a quarter of a clumn of an event, we order forty yur-ds or a hundred yards, according to 1 its merit. "The different sections of the news are all joined up on one film, with explanatory slides for headings.' We shall not chronicle murders, confining ourselves more especially to the passing pageant of life. '' \ "Thus the principal contents of the Gazette film last week are:—' f , t "The Cross-Channel flight. "The trial eights boat race at Oxford. "Commander Peary at Edinburgh. "Mr. Roosevelt at Cambridge. "The funeral of the Boy Scout at Ealing. "We shall have an animated fashion page—or, rather, forty yards'; several yards of 'children's corner,' and, in lighter vein, a quarter of a mile of animated short story." '