Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-03
How the Wonderful Kiinodrome
Pictures Are Secured


ON THE ROOF.
The next scene is generally on the
roof OF the hall, possibly with q vast
ana appreelatiye audience witnessing
the AFFAIR from the windows OF the adj
lacent buildings in the heart of u city.
When the word is given the machine is
sci going, the trap door I'm the roof is
raised and conVicts head appears
He glances around, then beckons and
his 4al comes painfully through To-
sether they sneak along the roof and a
guard pounces on them. A life and
death struggle follows. Suddenly the
prompter counts zone, two, three" and
the machine Is again stopped The
struggling men remain rigid. Careful
note Is made of their positions and
Then the warden steps aside and a
dummy dressed like him is produced.
The word is given and the machine Is
set IN motion once more. In the mean
tlme the actors with the dummy have
taken up the positions held before the
picture machine was stopped. As th,.
cue Is given the convict with a SUPER
human effort hurls the luckless prison
guard on the roof 10 his death great
applause).
Then everybody goes downstairs and
gets into carriages and a drive is taken
10 park where there are water, fences,
banks ana other rural scenic effects
Here Is where everybody works, no.
emitting the park policemen who with
the prospect Of a fat tip In view, ride
their horses until they lather In keep
Ing the course clear of curious specta-
tors. Incidentally these picture maxi
ers have secured a permit from the au-
thorities to utilize this park, and for
Gn ~ h.a4a Hls..la l.
been rehearsed by the twenty odd actors
who have been on the salary list for
some time.
THE AUTOMOBILE CHASE.
To make an effectTe chase Il is nee
essary to hold up an automobile or two
(all hired by the hour shoot off lot OF
powder. swim across several shallow
ponds with one foot on the bottom, ana
above all, and this must not be omit
ted. get one or two fat men, preferably
eX-circus performers, to dress up as
policemen and women. These form tho
comedy effect II they are good at roll
ing down grassy banks. splashlng
through bitches and getting hung up on
fences IN transit, the picture will be a
great success-more so II the officers
Of the law are made to appear as ride
ulous as possible.
This Is enough to point out the man.
ner in which pictures are made for the
kinodrome.
THE TRAIN ROBBERY.
The same story holds good regarding
THE Great Train Robbery, = The Train
Wreckers" and other motion pictures
exhibited here recently. IN each case
a special train was chartered on
branch line and all Of the performers
were drilled for days before the pie
lures were taken even down TO the
train crews. In each case the dummy
was substituted at the critical moment
and the machine and train stopped
while the change was being made.
Those who witnessed the THE Train
Wreckers" viii recollect the scene
where the fireman on the cowcatcher
rescued the prone figure of the stricken
girl laid across the track. They will
remember that at the critical moment
the picture Jumped.
Every time-or to be more correct.
nearly every time--a motion picture
gives a jerk II marks the parting OF the
ways between the real thing and the
fake. Some are so artistlcally pleced
together, however, that It is hard for
anyone to detect the change unless he
is an expert
AND MINE EXPLOSION.
Take the Great Mine Explosion"
which made such a realistic sensation
ut the Orpheum last week. II was tho
same old story. This picture was
taken IN Germany Above the
ground the scenes were the
real thing with the exception
Of the interior of the miners home.
That was scenery The houses, the
mine entrance. the woman pushing the
cars, the blinded horse one and all
were bona fde pictures of German
mining life. Below IL was different.
The mine was scenery pure and SIM
pie. The long rows OF coal diggers
shoveling nut coal along the gallery
was a fake because coal miners work
In rooms" and not In gangs along
thoroughfare under ground which
is only wide enough for the cars TO
pass along the tracks, furthermore II
n miner got out only nut coal and slack
he would starve TO death.
THE explosion was a good fake,
and the water scene, taken in a SWIM
ming tank with proper scenic effects
and lights. was excellent, hut the dunn
my falling down was amateursh be-
cause there was such n palpable jerk
when the real drowning man was
substituted,
NOT ALL FAKES.
Once In a while the picture artist
catches something that Is not fake
and Is entirely unrehearsed--the fall
Ing horses and jockeys In 1.-THE Great
French Steeplechase," for instance. 1t
costs mint of money 20 get up a now
Ell motion picture. but all the money
ever spent In this direction could not
brlbe a bunch N jockeys 10 como to-
gether in such fashion Immediately I'm
front OF the camera, neither could n
good fat check prevail upon the mo-
tlon picture operator 20 stay at his
post amid the struggling horses NJ his
feet and record the Incident to the Bit
ter end
II speaks well for the work OF the
actors, the untirng efforts of the
stage manager and all the rest OF