The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-20
advance cftbe kaleidoscope

+, Captain John Finley, the expert on
| tornadoes, now in the American me-
neurological service, has taken some re-
markabIe moving pictures of lightning
storms. and expects to get some strik-
ing pictures Of the approach of Kan
sas tornado.
Another new and novel exhibit is
brilliant display of fireworks. taken at
plight. While il has hitherto been i'm
possible TO photograph fireworks, by
the-use OF magnesium powder the bio
graph has faithfully recorded the
shower and pinwfeel effects of the most
costly pieces made.
An ADVENTUROUS operator in Europe
devised the idea of taking pictures
from the bottom of the car of a balloon
in motion. As 1t assembled rapidly, sue
cessive pictures were taken straight
/ downward, showing the spectators,
I then the surrounding houses and trees,
] then roofs and country, fading rapidly
until all that could be seen were dark
! patches on the earth.
/ A biograph camera was made 10 per-
/ form another remarkable feat. Placed
on the top of a Brooklyn bridge tower
one clear day., it was turned so as to
| take pictures in every direction of the
compass, covering fifteen miles in every
direction. In the few minutes it takes
to show these pictures on the screen.
the spectators are given panorama
covering something like 500 square
miles.
Convincing Evidences.
An operator, speaking of some of his
experiences, remarked: II was cross
/ ing ferry with my machine one day."
when saw what was sure to be col
I lision between two schooners. i at once
set my machine working and when
these boats struck it made an exciting
scene for exhibition purposes, with
Swapping of spars and rigging. 1 got
the pictures, but they never appeared
on the screen. The case was taken to
court, and one of the interested parties
who saw the picture taken, gave me
$3.50 to destroy what would have proven
an unquestionab,e witness in court"
In exhibiting a Hamburg bridge scene
in Boston recently, one of the persons
who was shown to cross the bridge was
recognized as one for whom detectives
had been searching. This at once put
them on the right track for their cap
ture. And the value of the kaleidoscope
on the race track was recently shown,
having proven. evidence which settled
a discussion over the places in road
race.
Exciting and amusing magical NOV
ing pictures are being exhibited by
clever Partisan entertainers. By curl
Gus methods resorted to in taking the
pictures, almost any result may be
produced on the screen as though it
really happened. By the use of their
wands, magicians make hosts of living
creatures appear and disappear, appar-
emily behead and shoot. one another in
battle scenes on the screen, and imme- |
diately restore them to life again. or
make them appear in two places at |
N cynt hose ,-aI off
dummy figures made up exactly like I
the person they represent, are used /
nlomentarily when the pictures are
taken, the living persons suddenly TAX
ing their places again and apparently |
reyiving from death. And by emitting |
several of the pictures in a series of |
films, strange disappearance and sud- |
elaborate dramas.
New Possibilities of the Invention.
An expert who is doing perhaps as /
much as any one man,in improving and |
developing the biograph, is constantly |
finding remarka BILE new applications for |
the machine. He believes that it will
furnish the best means of identifying I
criminals. Animated pictures for the
Rogues Gallery may be made of crimi-
nails while walking or talking, from an
adjoining room. without their knowl
edge, showing their real characteristics.
II is thought that a PERSONS general ac-
tons are remembered better than sim
ply ones features, and-the pictures so
taken would be placed in the small
mutoscopic cabinets in which pictures
are observed by turning a handle. In
fact. this viii soon be the popular way
to have your pictures taken. A large
public gallery will shortly open in one
of the worlds greatest hotels where
people can have moving pictures taken
of themselves in characteristic actions.
which will be placed into the small
microscopic cabinets. such as are used
for home amusement. When these cab
iuets have. become household articles
this expert sees a new field for Them
in that they will enable people 60 wit
ness the popular events of the day. Sets
of pictures showing the exciting scenes
the yacht race, athletic game, court
scene or other event-will be made in
such quantities and so reasonably as
to be distributed daily like newspapers
for home use in the cabinets: thus we
may see the days notable occurrences
as well as read the reports.