Four Motion-Picture Shows in One 



Thus Kansas City accommodated an extra size audience 



Here projection screens were 

 used, one on each wall of the 

 hall, and the audience was 

 divided into four sections, 

 each facing its own screen 



THE largest of all motion-picture exhi- 

 bitions was staged recently in Kansas 

 City, in her mammoth Convention 

 Hall before five different audiences aggre- 

 gating sixty-seven thousand persons. The 

 newspaper which gave the exhibition sent 

 out more than two hundred thousand invi- 

 tations. To enable the great audience 

 which filled Convention Hall to see the 

 pictures, four screens were erected in the 

 center of the big hall. Each screen measured 

 seventeen by thirteen feet. The pictures 

 could be seen from all directions. The 

 operators timed the running of the pictures. 

 A bell was rung when the end of every one 



hundred feet of film was reached, so that 

 each operator knew whether he had to 

 speed up or slow down. The four screens 

 fastened together in the center of the arena 

 formed a cube open at the top and bottom. 

 Below this little cube of screens was a 

 space which accommodated an orchestrk 

 of thirty-five pieces. 



Another unique method of projecting 

 four views of the same picture simultane- 

 ously is illustrated in the second picture. 

 Instead of the screens in the center of the 

 hall a laiq^e projection room was built at 

 this vantage point and the screens were 

 placed one cm each wall of the hall. 



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