The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-19
THOSE vERASCOPE PICTURES.
Several Rounds of the Carson Fight
Cannot Be Shown.

Several Rounds of the Carson Fight
Cannot Be Shown.
New York, April l9.-The pictures OF the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, taken for ex-
hihition by what is called the verascope,
are ready for printing, and in a few days
| the small company OF capitalists will know
the extent OF their sorrow or the measure
of their fortune.
The pictures are not al bad; indeed, some
are remarkably good, but the best are those
| OF the least interesting rounds.
There is one excellent picture, however,
which viii cause an almost endless amount
of discussion. 1t is of one moment in the
fourteenth round following the kno ckout
blow. As it is described by one of the men
who have been privileged TO see the de-
yelopet negatives, il shows COrbett collaps
ing, with one knee upon the floor, his hands
down, FitzSimmons bending over him, and
his right glove in conjunction with the
point OF Corbett's chin.
This negative is said TO be one Of the
dearest in the series, and has been OK
amined with great interest by William 4.
Brady, manager for the defeated COM
Blatant. He is said to have spent two hours
carefully examining with a high-power
glass the series following the knockout
blow.
The verascope is owned by Enoch Rector,
Dan Stuart, Warren wheelock, William A.
Brady and James J. Corbett The device
was built under the direction of Rector,
who is a civil engineer.
Usually the long strips of film are FED to
the cameras by electric motors, regulated
to carry sufficient film past the lens for
twenty-four pictures per second. Rector
substituted crank turned by man, and
the delivery of the film in consequence
lacked regularity.
This led to serious defects in the spacing
between pictures, which will cause flashes
of light to appear when the pictures are
enlarged by the lantern for the screen
Thestandard space between picturesis 1854
of an inch. The spacing of the Carson City
pictures varies from LEA to 1-S. AS the
pictures are enlarged 200 times the nor
nal space OF Is inches is exaggerated
in many instances to 2 feet 1 inch-from
scarcely observable interruption to
painful break in the continuity Of the
series.
0lcS WeIe uSeu OF tHe
sice in series, not simultaneously. The
reels were freshly painted the day be-
fore the fight and the paint was not
dry when the film was put on them. In
consequence the film is splashed with
paint along its edges, and in some in
stances across its face. Some negatives
were so bad that they had to be clipped
out and the film ends cemented together
This breaks the continuity of the pic
lures, SO that important details are lost.
The taking of pictures began with the
camera at the extreme right OF the arena.
The space in front was kept clear of spec
tators by ratings and police, but few
favored persons got in theIe-among them
Dan stuart. For seven minutes his derby
hat INSTRUCTED the field of tie camera at
the right-the entire period of the first
two rounds-so that the first thousand feet
of film bear only pictures of that hat, with
a penumbra of ringside incidents. Then
Stuart moved out of the cameras field, and
The sixth round is obscHredin important
parts by fog of smoke from the cigars Of
the favored few inside the rails The fol-
lowing rounds are fair down to the four
teenth and last, when the spacing is atits
worst. Efforts have been made to cure
this, but with Indifferent success
The field of the camera which took the
final photographs did mot include the space
near the ropes into which Corbett cravied