The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-01
THE CAMERA AND ITS USES.

lie is a clever genius who i'll
vented a system of newspaper inter
view by camera. First to submit to
the process was Senator ingalls,, who
was presented in three pages of Opin-
ions on topics in general, with the in
Simultaneous photograph showing how
he looked when he was talking, and pre-
senting his changed expression as diff
ferent themes were discussed.
The range of Gamers service might
easily he enlarged. The new process
would he a triumph of art and report
ing combined il, for instance, il had
been applied by the Chicago Tribune
in its recent music-box yarn about
Marcus DAILY. We are told that when
that gentleman started forth from the
Richelieu i'm Chicago, with the iitful
music machine under his arm, il broke
forth with Annie Rooney just rs he
reached the sidewalk. While it is ad-
mitted that the Tribune reporters de-
scription of the scene is graphic
enough, still, in our Judgment, the real
dramatic force of the story would be
heightened had the camera gained a sec
ond's play on our townsman's features,
i'm order that the public might judge
more accurately of his mood ut the in
slant when the giddy "Rooney" girl
began to pipe forth her brass barrel
melody right under his arm.
Then, too, il would be interesting to
see how rapidly a mans features change
with each transition in his mental oper-
ations. In the present instance, the
Tribune would have shown how the
hero of its story appeared in his valient
yet Intellectual fight with the rolling
programme of popular airs which,
however unwilling the music director
might be, resolutely reeled of its melo-
dious measures with all the energy of
n full brass band. We fancy, too, that,
for all purposes of the camera, the
STANDARDS esteemed townsman
changed rs suddenly as the music box
did when, without announcement or
intermission, the orchestral torment
turned from the ilippant airs it had
been rehearsing, to break forth with
the stately measures of "Mctiinty."
Under the inspiration of that impress
sive melody. even the most stolid feat
ures would undergo a change, one
which, indeed, must have been expert
enced by every face In the audience
which gradually gathered ut the portals
of the ltichelieu. The application of
the camera Just at this point would
have brought the Tribune story to an
effective finale. AS for this newspaper,
il does not believe n word of the
TriJune's recital when il says that the
concert stepped quietly into the lobby
and sent a bell boy QUITO gather up the
wreck.
But there is a serious side To the use
of the camera i'm the field we have sug-
gested. II could confirm the honesty of
every newspaper story, il could fur
nish enduring evidence To the truth of
every newspaper tale. The time would
come when no reporter would be com.
plete without Il camera attachment. In
the present instance. the STANDARD
has il Oh authority which il dislike s TO
question, that Mr.. DAILY denies the
story, repudiates the concert, but de
clares that a good place at good pay
awaits the man whose inventive genius
framed the 7iribunGs story, if ever he
comes this way. IL. now, the Chicago
newspaper had backed its romanc with
the unerring evidence of the camera.
could Mr.. DAILY look his neighbors
calmly in the face and say that, on the
sunny April day in question. Chicago
did not lend ear To a successful miners
minstrelsyg