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with his usual nonchalance, he 

 calmly borrowed the entire army. 

 It is needless to say that his per- 

 sonality is tremendous. 



Aside from Terwilliger and 

 Fielding, who go wherever the 

 scenery pleases them, the Lubin 

 has stock companies permanently 

 installed in Brooklyn, Atlantic City, 

 Jacksonville, Los Angeles and Betz- 

 wood. Feature plays, in which 



Two Views in the Lubin Property 

 Rooms. In the Above View is Seen 

 the Large Stock of Furniture 

 Which is Used for Furnishing In- 

 door Sets. In the View to the 

 Right May Be Seen the Workmen 

 Preparing Elaborate Statues and 

 Panels Modeled in Clay. 



Fielding has a fine sense of the artistic 

 in scenery, and he makes it his business 

 to search the ends of the earth for pic- 

 turesque settings for his film stories. A 

 collapsible studio is part of his equip- 

 ment. Whether he is in Alaska, Japan 

 or Somaliland, his indoor studio is al- 

 ways convenient. 



Capturing a City to Order 



During one of the numerous Mexican 

 revolutions recently Fielding and his 

 company attached themselves to the regu- 

 lar staff of one of Villa's generals. The 

 amusing story is told of a certain attack 

 on a city which Fielding was anxious to 

 photograph. The general promised Field- 

 ing to make the attack in the daytime, 

 but for strategic reasons the city was 

 taken during the night. Fielding there- 

 upon flew into a rage and threatened to 

 do terrible things. So, on the following 

 morning, the repentent general withdrew 

 his army from the city, made the attack 

 all over again and Fielding got the pic- 

 ture he wanted ! Another time he visited 

 Mexico, Fielding needed an army to lend 

 a punch to a play he was finishing, so, 



Broadway favorites appear, are produced 

 in the Brooklyn studio ; summer comedies 

 come from Atlantic City; cowboy and 

 Indian pictures are made at Los Angeles, 

 while Jacksonville is the source of nearly 

 all the comedies. 



The Ranch at Betzwood 



Although the main offices and some 

 studios and a portion of the manufac- 

 turing plant are located in Philadelphia, 

 the main plant of the Lubin is several 

 miles from Philadelphia, at Betzwood 

 the Betzweod Ranch, it is called. Here 

 highly diversified scenery makes possible 

 almost every sort of play. In the seven 

 hundred acres there are hills, valleys, 

 forests, rolling plains and a river, the 

 Schuylkill, which cuts across one corner, 

 not to speak of ranch houses, corrals and 

 cowboys real ones direct from the 

 West. Three large studio buildings and 

 an enormous manufacturing plant with 

 a weekly output of one and a half million 

 feet of film comprise a productive unit 

 in themselves. Lubin cameras, for Lu- 

 bin use only, are also manufactured, and 

 in a spacious, well-equipped laboratory 



