. Notable Londoners, an illustrated who's who of professional and business men. SIDNEY L. BERNSTEIN Managing Director, Film Agencies, Ltd. ; Empire Kinemas,Ltd., and of various other similar enterprises in the cinemaworld. Managing Director, West Ham Engineering Co.,Ltd. Mr. Bernstein was originally intended for anengineering career in which he had already made unusualprogress when the possibilities offered in cinema spheresinduced him to transfer his activities thereto. His remark-able success in catering to the cinema public promises stillmore far-reaching future achievements from Mr. Bernst
. Notable Londoners, an illustrated who's who of professional and business men. SIDNEY L. BERNSTEIN Managing Director, Film Agencies, Ltd. ; Empire Kinemas,Ltd., and of various other similar enterprises in the cinemaworld. Managing Director, West Ham Engineering Co.,Ltd. Mr. Bernstein was originally intended for anengineering career in which he had already made unusualprogress when the possibilities offered in cinema spheresinduced him to transfer his activities thereto. His remark-able success in catering to the cinema public promises stillmore far-reaching future achievements from Mr. Bernsteinin perhaps tlie most popular class of modern entertainment,especially as he is still young in years and more thanordinarily endowed perhaps with vigour and has travelled extensively, has been a member of theAir League of the British Empire since 1910, is a member ofthe Executive of the Council of Cinema Exhibitors and aGovernor of St. Marys Hospital. His ch:ef recreationis golf. {Photo : KitsscU). J. STUART BLACKTOXIt is more than interesting to record that the credit forbringing Edisons invention of animated photography tothe stage when it was first used for the entertaining ofthe million belongs to an Englishman—Mr. Stuart it was who first convinced the great inventor of thepractical potentialities of the film. Beginning in a smallway, he established the Xitagraph Company, the oldestand still one of the most important firms producing pictureplavs. It is not too much to say that Mr. Blackton hasbeen the greatest individual force in the screen art in-dustrv. Among the many screen stars who made theirdebut and fame mider his direction were Norma andConstance Talmadge, Anita Stuart, Clara Kimball Young,Lilian Walker, etc., etc. Mr. Stuart went to America atthe age of fourteen, graduated from the New YorkUniversity, and before becoming associated with the screenwas a journalist and artist. {Photo: Charlotte Fairchild) 64 XOTA : FILM WOR
Size: 1306px × 1913px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidnotablelondo, bookyear1922
