Show PICTURE ROVING the Scene Parting of the Bed I surprised to know how some of the are There is a It which has lately been sent If i over the country that iLs the climax in the art of picture I don man in a thousand who it will have the least idea of IT jj It represents of the children of Israel Wj the scene where Moses his wand and the Red sea man who took the picture twelve hours on the Red sea ILd He singled out a the shore of Long Island k there was a sand bar which Boot of the water at low tide under water at He at high tide and we of pictures of the sea as tried After fifteen min-Ve reeled off another i fifteen minutes later he did Thus at the end of six i he had a film showing the changes for every quarter of an At the end of that time the tide had receded so that the sand bar could be Then he called in the supers and had them walk across the bar while he took their That was only half of the Later in the day when the tide began to rise he returned and began again to take a few pictures every fifteen At the end of six hours the water had risen to where it wag when he We had some doubt as to how the film would come We didn't know whether the tide when photographed that way would give the desired effect of a sea parting and then closing up But it I know of any film that looks more lifelike and The waves seem to rush apart for a minute and then back just as described in the New York |