Le Cinematograph d'Isaac Kline (Athenaeum, 3 mars 1899)

Isaac Kline présente son cinematograph en mars.

Jackson Citizen Patriot, Jackson, jeudi 2 mars 1899, p. 6.

Un compte rendu est publié le 4 mars :

CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENT.
A program of pictures intensely interesting from their patriotic character was advertised by the Kline Lumiere Cinematograph Co., to be presented the Athenaeum last evening. The advertisement had the effect to draw to the theater an audience which packed the place from "cellar to garret," several hundred being obliged to stand. There were present at least 1,500 people, and when the show was over all realized they had been the victims of false pretenses -that what they saw was not at all what had been expected. The pictures shown were in some instances old, but all were well presented.
The party worked up interest by advertising to show the Jackson troops at Island Lake, etc., but nothing of the sort was seen. Again. a picture was shown of a ship loaded with troops, labeled "Michigan boys going to Cuba." For a matter of fact it was a picture of the transport, Australia, leaving San Francisco for the Philippines, and worst of all the ship was sailing backward. A picture of a stone fort at San Juan, Porto Rico, was labeled "Michigan boys died, here," but they didn't, for the reason the Michigan men were in Cuba, not Porto Rico. There were other "fake" pictures shown, all of them being an insult to the intelligence the audience.
However, the curse wag removed a degree or two by fine pictures of Admiral Dewey, the only "Teddy" Roosevelt, uncle Sam, the Goddess of Liberty, and several of tho the battle ships and cruisers. One of the best views was the bombardment of the forts at San Juan, Porto Rico, by the New York and Terror.
As a whole the entertainment was a grievous di appointment.

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Jackson Citizen Patriot, Jackson, samedi 4 mars 1899, p. 6.