AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 November 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

The present programme of M essrs Ihompson Payne's Pictures was again well received last night by a good audience. The films will be shown to-night for the last time, and to-morrow evening some particularly good 'novelties, specially imported by the firm, will be presented.

FROM FOREST TO BREAKFAST TABLE. This week's patrons of Messrs Thompson and Payne pictures have been afforded an opportunity of witnessing the whole process ofconverting trees and printing ink into a daily paper. The real interest of the pictures, apart from scenic considerations, commenced in the paper mill, and thereforward increasing in interest, found ita climax in that wonderful exposition of man's ingenuity illustrated by the linotype and the rotary printmg pres3. In about forty-five minutes, those who witnessed the unreeling of this him before the electric light were in structed in the scope of the almost magic process of the paper mill and the printing office. The fact that pictures of this kind are now commencing to form a substantial portion of cinematograph entertainment* is also a fine tribute to the power of science, as exemplified in the moving picture thus projected and to the wide field for profitable instruction, combined with amusement thus opened ,'up. Such exhibi tions as these have a valuable educational influence. Science as applied to printing has penetrated into all parts ef the world, and here in Masterton may be seen daily-in operation many of the processes illustrated in the picture referred to so far as it commenced with the printing office. In the Wairarapa Age office, for example, the setting of type by both Linotype and Simplex machines, the subsequent uses of "Hong," etc., go on daily.