Le Vitascope (Proctor's Pleasure Palace, <24> septembre 1896)

Le Vitascope présente des vues animées au Proctor's Pleasure Palace :

Vitascope at Proctor's
It is easy to understand why Proctor' Pleasure Palace is packed to the limit of its capacity when it unites 50 many novelties at small prices. There is an embarrassement of riches including Edison's Vitascope exhibited at 12.30, 3.50 and 8.50 p. m. Edison, the electrical wizard was the first to endow photographic views with the realism of life and motion. His is one of the most fascinating of American inventions and he has arranged to give Mr. Proctor a constant variety of new, up-to-date, entertaining illustrations of real life that escape the observation of most city dwellers. The initial series, shown for the first time, including the arrival of Li Hung Chang; the sketching of Inventor T. A. Edison's portrait by a newspaper artist; a new bathing scene at Rockaway; a new skirt dance in colors; and haymakers cutting-grass, a scene unfamiliar to thousands of city people, together with a group of street gamins struggling for pennies at Park Row; and the shooting of the chutes at Coney Island, an admirably diversified list, full of action.
Edison's marvelous vitascope is shown at Proctors Twenty-third Street Theatre with a splendid selection of new views, in which the effect of real life is attained. The vitascope will be shown at 1.04, 3.50 and 10 p. m. There is an enormous vaudeville including several costly European novelties imported for Proctor's big road company.

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The Daily Times, New Brunswick, mardi 15 septembre 1896, p. 5.

Les séances se prolongent au cours du mois de septembre :

Proctor's, This Week.
The instantaneous success of Edison's Vitascope at Proctor's Pleasure Palace, shows how keenly the public is interested in the fascinating pictures of real life, endowed with movement. No subject is allowed to grow stale and every view is new except that which shows Edison's portrait developing beneath the crayon strokes of Blackton, the cartoonist. who cares and bows to the audience at the finish. The moving pictures include a street scene in front of Edison's laboratory, showing passing cars, sprinkling carts and children at play: watermelon contest for a wager, between two African gentlemen; the Passaic falls at Paterson: a garden scene in which flowers and foliage, swayed by the breezes, are shown in colors; a busy hour in bowlling green. with moving cars, wagons, cyclers and all the bustle of' traffic, and the famous laughing sensation, the May Irwin and John C. Rice kiss from the "Widow Jones."

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The Daily Times, New Brunswick, jeudi 24 septembre 1896, p. 8.