Show I Trick ck Photography Is Basis of Many any Movie Wonders Who Vho was tho the first to sa say The camera cannot lie llo Tho The photographic record of or animation which we steen seen upon the screen Is really a a. composite composite- osito of or numerous snapshot pictures pictures pic plc tures Jn in n rapid succession They move f footer faster than the eye etui CUll work sTork and aud thus thu J persuade us to translate Into unified d action ac tic Ion tion a series of or Images that each for tor UH its traction fraction o of a a. second 1111 la is absolutely fixed and still Thus illusion Is 18 is the fun tun- principle of or mo ln moving pictures Tho The analysis of ot film magic that comes lomes under the heading of ot trick photo photography la is lau isIt u It highly technical matter This use of ot dummies is called the atop and substitution substitution substitution sub sub- method and und is tho the basis of much clever trickery with the films 11 mil A French Fa picture called An Automobile Accident nt regarded as sensational i l few tot years n ago go ma may b be cited a. a as an lion Ion o of Its wider willer development A drunken workman writes W W. Collins on or Tho Tue Worlds World's sow Now Plaything I Motion Pictures In th tilt September I j issue o of th the th Gr Green eu Book Magazine de decide j dc-j do- do cities cide to take tl a nao ID In the tho middle ot of of th tha street A taxicab runs runa over oer him cuttI cut- cut tI tins tins' off both Ills his legs leSs Tho The occupant ant of the taxi a n doctor doctor is fa not at all nil perturbed by this hideous accident He Ho calmly gets gels out of oC the machine places aces the dismembered dismorn- dismorn limbs In their heir proper position on tho the victims victim's thighs and behold I the man bets up again and walks Apparently n it miracle has been accomplished or at least a feat of or surgery that la Is beyond the tho skill of ot even cn Dr Alexis Carrell To bri bring about this illusion on the tho film two working men of ot identical appearance were cre used Ono One of or them specially engaged engaged en en- for tor this occasion was the legless victim of ot sonic some real accident of ot tho the past st and amid for tor him dumm dummy w were r made The rest is obvious Tho The taxi aji was stopped cd Just as S its front wheels touched th time the sleeping drunkard and antl the tho picture taking was also Interrupted 1 at that mo ment menta Then the ho cripple Wa was substituted for Cor the victim and th the taxi rolled over o his imitation legs and andro removed re ro- re moved thorn them neat neatly The film was wal halted a second time after tho the doctor had hail per per- formed his hie casual operation to permit theother theother the thc other player layer whoso whose le legs s were vero still sUll ex extant ex cx- tant hint in goed ocd working order to r re replace re- re place his sub The result was wa that combination 0 of and comic cf- cf fort feet oct which is often orten characteristic char th o of the Gallic Collie Imagination This Thin sort of ot trickery demands nothing unusual In thc the operation of ot the camera or orIn orin in iii other phases of ot the photographic process process pro pro- cess beon beyond l the tho stopping of or the film It U ItIs UIs Is work b the thc and while purely vurel by hi pro producer ln in 11 theory it Is as completely fake take aa all a anything the tho stage itself can exhibit for lot comparison on its record on the screen la is decidedly convincing The Tho use of ot a a. dummy in a photoplay Is 15 difficult of Dc detection except by those thOS who are Ini Initiated ml- ml n- n hUed into tho the secret of ot the craft cratt In lino line with this kind of deceit out oat side sido the lie camera camero though without the need of ot the stop and device Is Js the thc employment of t toy models and studiO stage tao settings Much can cun be accomplished pUt pushed by this form torm of or trickery but the motto of ot Spare no expense which has bas boon been put In tn practice since the tho film manufacturers man man- became so amazingly prosperous prosperous prosper prosper- ous ous has halt made mado it n afore ore or less obsolete To 10 Illustrate tho lie possibilities of ot this va va- va not zloty of oC film charlatanism bone bowe however or It may bo be o said fald that Robert W. W 1 th the pioneer English cinematographer r and on oneo ono one o of ot the time greatest masters of ot trick photography photography 1 raphy once produced a thrilling train wreck scene only rort forty t feet long but containing con con- plenty of ot punch by the us u. use of ur models The placed close ill up made the to toys seem seen like lIt life Ufa si sia size a railroad cars can and the picture was accepted ac ag- 0 as s |