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1911 advert for the Kinemacolor Theatre, 113-119 West 40th Street, New York – the first of the great movie houses
Image by CharmaineZoe’s Marvelous Melange
The Kinemacolor was on 40th Street in what was formerly the Mendelssohn Hall, and only lasted from 1911 to 1912, when the building was torn down. Originally built by Alfred Corning Clark, the millionaire owner of Singer Sewing Machines, in 1892, it was occupied by the Mendelssohn Glee Club. The Club was dispossessed in 1911 after Clark’s widow died, and her heirs sought to make some money by leasing the building to Kinemacolor. It was subsequently sold to Philip Lewisohn for 0,000, who tore it down in 1912 and built the Lewisohn Building in it’s place. www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/MendelssohnHall.html. The Coronation featured would have been that of George V.
In the autumn of 1911 Edwin Bower Hesser, who later became Hollywood’s foremost art photographer of women.(socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=hesser-edw…) managed the Kinemacolor Theatre on 40th Street in Manhattan, the former Mendelssohn Hall, an electrified 1,200 auditorium designed by Robert H. Robertson. Hesser presided over the first of the great movie houses, predating New York’s Regent (1,800 capacity—1913) and Strand (3,000 capacity-1914) by two years. He charged .00 per seat, an extraordinary sum contrasted to the 15 cents that was the norm for motion pictures in the city. So long as the Kinemacolor Company could supply product, the Theatre did brisk business. Highlights of the 1911-1912 season included “The Indian Durbar greeting King George V,” “Nature’s Wonders,” “The Burial of the Battleship Maine,” “Royal Horse Show,” “Unveiling of the Victoria Memorial,” and one photo-play: “Oedipus Rex” with live actors speaking in synchrony with the screen action. Unfortunately the cumbersome production and inefficiency in managing projects forced Kinemacolor to resort to small scale projects—supplying illustrative movies of butterflies for Lillian Russell lectures on how to remain beautiful or brief film inserts for stage plays. High ticket prices, the lack of new product, and the Motion Picture Patent Company Monopoly’s ban on supplying product doomed the Kinemacolor Theatre which went dark before the end of 1912. Kinemacolor dispensed with Hesser’s services.
Source: broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/edwin-bower-hessers-strange-a…
Billboard cdm128401.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p16124coll2/id/1236
Good article about Kinemacolor thebioscope.net/2008/06/15/colourful-stories-no-11-kinema…
Another good article on Kinemacolor: www.charlesurban.com/history_color.html
Kinemacolor Camera article & pics: www.samdodge.com/html/kine108/Camera.html
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