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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2015, 26 February 1907, Page 2

EDISON’S BIG AMERICAN PIC« TURE SHOW.

Fresh from a fourteen weeks’ season at one theatre in Sydney and a tour to packed houses in Southland, comes Edison’s popular pictures America at work and play, threo nights, commencing on Saturday. Much has been said in the press about this picture enterprise, and a treat is in store for lovers of animated photography. A careful study has been made by Professor Andrews, of “Magic Kettle” fame, m the selection of tlie pictures which lie lias brought from America. A great feature of this picture show is the distinct! manner in which these pictures are presented. The electric lamp alone, it is claimed, will carry 60 more ampiers than any lamp owned by any picture company that has ever toured tlie colony. Their own electric light plant and a 20-foot screen made of special material enables them to present, it is stated, tlie clearest and largest picture yet scon here. As to tho subjects, while they deal a great deal with American life, only such pictures will he shown as will rivet the attention of the audience. Over an hour of the evening will he devoted to pictures that depict fun fast and furious, and the pictures of New York city, with its wonderful buildings, its lives of American policemen and firemen, its fast trains, fastest and largest boats, are all of a sensational and eye-opening cliaracter.