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Show EIGHT-STORY BUILDING SHATTERED BY A BOMB It Had to be Done, in New Triangle-Collier Triangle-Collier Picture, and Titos. H. Ince Did It. i In the course of the action of "The No-Good Guy," a feature photoplay in which William Collier is starred on I the Triangle program, one of the most qenuine bomb explosions ever staged b-fore the camera takes place, with a resultant wreck of an eight-story building. build-ing. It took producer Thomas H. Ince exactly one month to make that short scene possible He hunted all ovor California, it seemed, to find a building build-ing about to be torn down that he could destroy for the sake of his Collier Col-lier story; but none could be found for a long time. By keeping in touch with the Tenement Department, tho Board cf Fire Underwriters and the Board of Health, he at length learned of an eight-story concrete corner struc turo with a frontage on two streets of 100 feet each, newly erected, but utterly ut-terly condemned by the authorities because of some architectural defect. Whereas Ince would not have been permitted to blow up most buildings because of possible damage to adjoining adjoin-ing property, tins structure had been poured almost in one piece in artificial stone, ajid absolutely required the use of dynamite. It cost Tnce a good round sum to substitute his bomb for tho explosive Intended for use by the wreckers; but the deal went through, and the explosion did its work in highly high-ly satisfactory manner. In the scene as it Is shown by the camera, tho building is rent asunder by an explosion that is seen to shoot upward through tho eight floors and cavo in tho side walls. And yet It occupies but five feet of film, which means eighty pictures running about four to the second, or something over a quarter of a minute. Advertisement. |
