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Show Wliat he World Is (Doing CAS SEES BY POPULAR MECHAKICS cMAGAZINB ' . - Thrills Made to Order in the Movies Keyless Auto Lock Acts When Car Is Stopped Beaidea automatically blocking; the ignition when the earif itopped, a key. leas autonobil lock positively hold the Bteermg gear. Then are bo key to forget aa the deyjc is fitted to th steering poat and operates with 10 button. but-ton. It may be set with say number up to 10,. and th HANGING by the heels oa aft4oeh ledge with the street cavern yawn-kig yawn-kig 12 stories below is no trick at all is the morisa, M letting a foothold oa th edge of a tall brick precipice and being caught by the hands of a clock 10 flcsvs above the earth, however, contains almost as many thrills for th actor aa it does for the apart tore. For tbess an th days of realism in pictures, tha result of a wailtai demand de-mand on the part of a public long ae-eustomed ae-eustomed to seeing speerling automobiles automo-biles plunge over steep chSs, death-defying death-defying leap into a raging surf, and airplane craahee, for mora thrills. ' In com eases "doubles'' an eta-ployed eta-ployed to take the plans of the star for th mora hsaarrfaaai undertakings. Dreeaad and mad up to resemble the actor, they brave death in leaps from speeding trains, to airplanes, jump over eiiifs, and ndoitootorcydea into locomotive loco-motive with no chance of winning either fam or glory. Many risks, however, an taken by the stars. In one instance, dunog the Cover the Uepw CaaMraman aed th Lever Bart ef tin Picture, Vndw ta Clock at Left, end It WatoarMer It Apuart ea that th ettrrent would carry floating obiacta to a sand bar hist above the falls, and a watcher was stationed then to pull her from tha water as she swept peat But, instead, the current swept her to the other aide of the stream and she would have been dashed over ecanbtnation may be changed SAToiten aa draireri. When a button ia touched to shut off the ignition, th car is automatically auto-matically locked and cannot be operated oper-ated again until th combination is worked. . . Preventing Stream Brosion Along many streams it is necessary to hold the bank back in som efficient and cheap manner, to prevent erosion. An excellent method is shown in th illustration. A woveoywin fence is erected where tha new water edge is to be made, th fence posts being driven into th bed of the stream. Brush and saplings an then deposited-as indicated, th branrhes pointing awsy from th water and the butts inserted into the fencing. taa tails tar certain oeain naa not ner secretary rescued her. In making a picture of a man climbing climb-ing the stria of a building and doing apparently perilous stunts many floors above the street, a real building wss selected and a i' ii' 1 1 is performer employed em-ployed to double for the actor in the "long shots." Then a fake building was built on top of the real one. .The "set" wss built in far enough so thst th not would break any fall and also would provid a platform for the camera.- By "shooting" at a proper angle, however, th drop to th street looked straight down. see Uc Iron to Float Logs la logging timber tracts ia South America and th Writ Indian islands, th heavier wood, which is not sufficiently suffi-ciently light to float, has always proved difficult to move, Ona firm recently solved this problem by using "floaters," mads of nist-resisting iron, by means of which the heavy timber waa rafted down a river to the sea. Leaptag kVeaa a aktm laeo tee Kaar teat ef aa Atoweal la Jua Om f te '-attarta" Da Madid ta the Meeka ttmm . Mtgk lalsrtsd tats . . filming of a western .natodmma, the barotiM wag called upoa to pthinge into an icy mountain Tarrant and float downstream toward a cataract. It had been found br eaueruoent Earth it thrown on the brash to mak the wall solid, and in a short time tha new bank is knit together bf manh trasera and nmhea. |