Show I RICKS Of I PHOTOPLAY I. I EXPOSED Al' Al A Crowded Auto Dashes Through Railroad Gates Just Missing Train DEATH DEFYING STUNTS EXPLAINED loving Picture Condenses s Five Days' Days Life of Rose Into Few Minutes BY J. J HASKIN lIu In one seno it mi might ht be he said that bo be c moving monr picture is of itself a mira mira- Je e le but Io long Iona after men have havo ceased to arvel at the mere mero quality of motion in pictures their wonderment is aroused nd ad d their curiosity excited by the nu- nu erous achievements of the seemingly possible on the mowing moving picture screen The The palpable trick picture is not early so 60 popular as it once was tras as ase ashe asto he to e moving moin picture patrons no longer ax enthusiastic over oer the tho skill of a raph magician ician But But But in spite of this change in iii the popular taste the trick picture is still ed cd although h in in ina a fashion that successful will not be detected by byI I spectator Probably you ou have seen Ill put out by a famous French j in which an automobile dashes down an incline road to a a. grade crashes Tossing over a n. railway brou b the crossing rates gates and is Brought rought to a standstill within six MX inches bf bf au an express train rain rushing by at it an apparent speed of sixty miles an in hour That lat any chauffeur with ith a car filled ith passengers ers would undertake such mch ltd def ing def vine frat feat staggers beliet Qt t here is s the movin moving picture and we low ow that moving mowing pictures are arc made from rom rem photographs and that photo photographs raph are to made by cameras that tell nothing but ut tho truth Camera Dont Don't Tell Whole Truth I It is b true as holy writ rit that the amera ra will ill tell oni the tho truth but nc no nora tell the thep amra ra as 85 vet has pretended to hole p truth It H will ten tell only what hap- hap when the ent before its tingle single eye In this thil particular butter hutter utter is open syi W mobile picture man complained com coin lamed most molt bitterly that after the all au- mobile had crashed through the thc cross cross- within a 3 few jg e gates and had stopped of 1 the he railroad track that that game tine me automobile had gone on back to own and had bad left him sitting on a aen en with his camera for two solid ours waiting for that express train to tomo mo bv by The Tbt camera man had bad stopped turning Jie ie e crank and closed the shutter when The he automobile carne came up lip to tho the track Then hen he hn waited for the express train the crank and opened the tho shut shut- ter br T. T If it had not been heen convenient to have ave P a a. property automobile at tho the be he might have o caught cau ht any passing pabSt pass pass- ing ig t motor car ear going oin over ower the tracks ild ud then b by the tho simple expedient of or Sitting off the film ho he could have havo topped pod the ear car wherever er he ho pIea pleased pd J One of the tho most thrilling melodramas hat went the tho rounds of tho five-cent five latres last summer told 1 the tho story titon of cirl station agent at a lonely lonel lonely western Jains ding lin who was attacked and left for forcad cad Nul on the railroad track by bandits planning to hold up ip the pay train How Iho bo was saved by hy the tho faithfulness of a ao ao loc o wa waa wa tb tho main feature of the photos photos' photo photo- s' s lay but in iii that thero them was trag nothing Ore miraculous than tho the patience re- re to train tb tho dog dos to do his part here There was however er a real film film miracle fn th the pla play Saved by Fireman attacked attacker and After Affer the tho girl was into insensibility by the bandits ri ie e e si signals als were set to iwo iva the pay aiD ain an open track and she was thrown throw LI cross the rail rails Fortunately she rea reed re re- a gained ed on s and was wa's was able to toft toft ft up her hand although it was imp imI im- im I p iMe for her to drag herself out of h an aner f The pit paw train comes Mmes around arounds hc f s curve and swiftly approaches the tho tation Lathin The fireman sees fiS the irl but butis butis is too toe late lato to stop ton tho the eu engine ne this thill ein perhaps a n. bit of dramatic 1 ice He UP runs out nut alon along tb the footboard foot foot- board oud clambers down don on the Ole cow cow- leans over and just in the ni nick k kf f time timo grabs rahi aH up the insensible body of hA e. e girl rl in 10 his arms She has hns escaped death by h a It mar margin n of an inch I 1 Ik It is a II thrilling scene and 8 spectators lore ave been heard beard to declare that the tho girl irl vs a It dumm dummy others that some foolish naiden was cas willing to take the tilt risk and till un others that the tho thing actually happened hap ened as sa it was shown shon on the screen ereen Sow How the tho Picture Was taze A An A a a. matter of fact the picture was as asad ads ad in this thi way The C camera mr was end ened upon on a 8 nuin man ninn standing on the ii of nn an en engine holding oldin a 3 girl irl Jp IL 11 his arms The engine ensloe started to baek 3 aek k down dowD the track the man laid theIn the tho In down ou on the tho rails she ahn hl began beean n to toA rave A her hr arms anus weakly as All if ri signaling alin ii e engine continued to back at itt nn an in in- the walking bark bark- asing pasing Asin speed man rard ard long Idon the th footboard into the cab he ie o engine king backing around the tho curve jid id out of jf sight i bt Tho engine was wall not net the only only thins thin at was aa a going Sloin backward vard for the Ou cameTa earn cam eTa ra a man wah wo turning l tho the crank of or his tho the wrong way I thi this picture was developed the thc appeared to come headfirst headfirst- t Around the tb IlIr curve eure and to rush b down upon the he girl fir Every I r nation was reversed t t was WM a Il great film and anti a 1 great 1111 she suc- eSs but ut it CS caused no JO little perturbation I jf of If spirit in the studio of the company j-ho j ho produced it launches Bunches o of Smoke Make Trouble For FOT not only were wen all of the actions action f the man tho the girl jirl th the 10 locomotive t traversed reversed hut but in in the picture little bunches of or smoke gathered themselves ut nt h of the nir lir here and ani there thre and usher shed toward the engine n and ind all went q straight bt lowe down the smokestack k The 4 smoke lid had to bo be painted d out of the thin film before rO thay could b bp be used With i- i Continued on page 4 1 TRICKS OF PHOTOPLAY EXPOSED Continued tom Continued from page pace a e 1 this on one change hanto th the illusion w wu a per per- perfect feet and a most thrilling picture was wait H made without involving in the li slightest risk rik of life or limb P Perhaps the thie most 1 interesting lo of nil nih mo in moving picture aro arc tho those e which condense into a R few ow cw minutes minute's the life lifo action of lays days and show upon tho illuminated iii- iii screen tn tho tile sprouting seed the tie bursting buds liula and aull the falling fruits fruit of tho tIO vegetable kin kingdom dom Since these films have bave but lately h been en employed for exhibition purposes purpose's it in is curious to know that tbt the first firM successful film pictures pic pie tures ev ever r made f those of If Maroy Marcy in inFranco Franco were of cowine gowing owins plants plante In order to I decelerate the apparent motion in a in moving the camera cunera cameraman man makes his picture at it a slower shower pace Take fake for instance R a rosebud A camera ram earn era is r placed before beloro the thu rosebush t the bud and photographs hoto aro taken at intervals ula of three and anti one half hours When thies these pictures are arc projected on ou tho tim screen at the rate of sixteen pe second the tue motion of the tho growing rowin plant is accelerated 1 SOSO tunes times and anti wo iyo 0 see in a few so seconds ds the tho moving in nil ing life hife of tho rosebud and the full uJ blown rose rOM that nay may have taken or four days s to live Build Eulid a a. House in a a. Few Minutes Millions 1 of ol people have laughed ort over or t the e comic romic pi pictures tures of carpenters building building build build- in ing a a. house in iu a n. few minutes of wall and decorators preparing it for br or occupancy and ancl of furniture bein being moved i in an and arranged with lightning rapidity These pictures arc are mado by bythe the simple device of turning the crank of the movin moving picture camera at a low speed As in the case of the rosebud the pictures are aro shown at the tho rate of sixteen a second although they mav may betaken bo be taken at tho the rate of one per second so that on the screen tho action is is sixteen times as rapid as it actually was One of tho the old oIl favorites now nov going out of style was wall a film flint that showed inanimate inanimate in in- animate objects in motion without the intervention of human agency The Tho teapot tea tea- pot tot poured its own tea into the Ill I'll cup This was simple The teapot yes was manipulated ma ma- by means of two black silken threads too fin find to show in tho photo graphs And there was th the tho knife that sliced the loaf of bread all nil by itself This was an exceedingly difficult picture pic pie ture to take since ince it required much care and time The Tho knife was started into the loaf the operator stepped aside and returned and moved the knife ever so little further into the loaf stepped aside asido again and another picture was taken taken ta ta- ta- ta ken and so on 00 It sometimes has required required re reo two days davs to slice a si single sirgie l loaf of bread for the moving picture film How to Make Objects Disappear A person or any inanimate object may be made to disappear suddenly from a a. moving picture by the simple expedient of stopping the camera while the person walks off or tho time inanimate object is removed and then starting th the crank again as if nothing had bad hap hap- Most trost of the ma magic c movin moving pictures pic pie tures have hae been indebted to this device for their mystery but since the tho re regular lar patrons so 50 soon detected the palpable simplicity simplicity- of these obvious miracles time the magic photoplay has dropped into innocuous innocuous in in- nocuous desuetude Perhaps the most tediously difficult moving pictures to make are those that apparently show a picture drawing it it- it self Several famous cartoonists and comic artists have ha drawn pictures for forthe forthe forthe the movin moving picture show a Buster Brown series series being especially success furl ful For these the artist made mado more than drawings s for one reel A short stroke is is made and tI that at is is photographed photographed photo photo- graphed another soother short stroke is made another photograph taken talen and so on for days and days until the picture is com corn Projected on the moving picture screen this work is is is' is condensed into ioto a afew afew afew few minutes' minutes time and the drawing appears to achieve itself without human human human hu hu- hu- hu man aid Monday MOVING PICTURES i VI Players Players and Writers |