The Gamblers 1914 Lubin The Arizona Summer Theater tent Tucson Arizona 1914-2008
by David Lee Guss
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The Gamblers 1914 Lubin The Arizona Summer Theater tent Tucson Arizona 1914-2008
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Much of Arizona is an inferno in the summer. Even by 1914, the Tucson Opera House, built in 1897, did not have an adequate cooling system. Air conditioning was years in the future. Usually the temperatures became reasonable a few hours after sunset. So the solution was to show movies in a tent.
{NOTE: The first air conditioning system in a movie house was installed in the Rivoli Theater in New York City in 1925; Willls Carrier the inventor.}
The bill here is Lubin's five reel "The Gamblers" (1914). No known print exists of this production.
Like most of the early pioneers in movie making, the Lubin Manufacturing Company couldn't survive the rapid changes in the industry, especially the loss in foreign markets with the outbreak of WW1 in 1914. Lubin went out of business in 1916.
The eccentric Sigmund Lubin (1851-1923) was a true visionary in the earliest days of motion pictures, although his methods often were shady.
Lubin started out making illegal copies of his competitor's movies and re-staging famous boxing matches that had been shot by Edison, who had negotiated exclusive rights.
Lubin's empire was headquartered in Philadelphia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0Nc3Bo308
@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, The Gamblers, 1914 Lubin, Tucson, AZ, 2008
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