Moving Picture Age (1920) . SCENARIO — PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION IE OTHER EEllOWS IDEA. Making Travel Less Tiresome A COMPLETE moving picture show was given onthe New York-New Orleans Limited out of Atlantarecently. Another was given on the same train from Ope-lika, Ala., to Atlanta the next morning. Moving pic-tures on passenger trains have become a reality. Morethan 100 passengers saw the eleven films displayed dur-ing the out trip and upwards of 200 saw them on thereturn trip with a musical program. So far as is known this is the first time in the his-tory of the railroads that a regular movi
Moving Picture Age (1920) . SCENARIO — PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION IE OTHER EEllOWS IDEA. Making Travel Less Tiresome A COMPLETE moving picture show was given onthe New York-New Orleans Limited out of Atlantarecently. Another was given on the same train from Ope-lika, Ala., to Atlanta the next morning. Moving pic-tures on passenger trains have become a reality. Morethan 100 passengers saw the eleven films displayed dur-ing the out trip and upwards of 200 saw them on thereturn trip with a musical program. So far as is known this is the first time in the his-tory of the railroads that a regular movie show has beendisplayed for the amusement of the passengers. Thetest was made under the personal direction of Joseph , general passenger agent of the Atlanta & WestPoint railroad, who was accompanied by a number ofmen interested in education and development work inGeorgia. As soon as the ten-coach train pulled into Atlantafrom New York the movie apparatus and the big phono-
Size: 1909px × 1309px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectmotionp, bookyear1920
