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"Buster" Dennison présente un cinématographe aux Philippines en 1905 :
Pleased the Natives.
"Buster" Dennison is touring the provinces with a cinematograph. One of the peculiarities of this provincial audiences is that the same people will frequent the show, night after night, and it is therefore necessary to have a change of films for each performance.
During a religious fiesta in a souhtern city he advertised the Passion Play. The animated picture was to have been given in two sections. Dennison had the first section, and he had sent to Manila for the other. Some [...lay occurred, however. The first section was [...] Saturday night to crowded houses, [...]uncement made that the remain[...] be shown on Sunday. But the [...] nothing and the showman was [...]wits' end when Sunday night came [...] there was nothing whatever in [...] take the place of the promised pictures. At last a happy ide struck him.
He turned the first scenes of the Passion Play up side down. The native spectators were delighted with the performance.
The Sunday Sun, Manille, dimanche, 6 août 1905, p. 14.
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