Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-25
PICTURES
 NATURE TAKING

man and crowd of "trailerS" chasing
 a supposed thief down the street and when they catch him you see them all
 stop and chat for d minute and then get into 8 rig that is not a patrol
 wagon and drive off together. chat, 1 ting, do not think that the police de,
 partment is being bribed. It is mere. | ly actors in a moving picture show
 getting up a picture for your enter.
 tainment at some future date.
 All moving pictures are posed for
 as carefully as any play is acted and | the pictures of battles and train hold. 1 ups are no more real than the pictures | Of the thief who steals the suit of ! clothes and is chased across about 10 miles of country (accordfng to the ] film). All such pictures are made 1 either in a studio with the scenery es- | pecially painted for it, or out In the | woods near some great city, with l every person in the picture hired at so much per day to take a part. Pictures of prize fights and of pa
 rades, like the late parade of the Elks in Philadelphia are real, for the pie ] ture machine men know that they are going to take place and have time to | get their machines in shape for ! shooting" but whenever you see a i picture of a great battle, with the
 smoke flying and men dropping dead 1 all around. you can put it down that
 it was made by a hired company of
 soldiers near New York or Paris
 or Philadelphia or some other place. | They don't take moving picture ma chimes onto battlefields. And lots of | the naval engagements you have seen with such vivid "accurateness of de- | tail were fought with pasteboard boats on a 12x12 tank of water in a 1 New York studio, with carefully paint l ed scenery in the background.
 i But reverting to the man running down the street with the policeman l after him. Such scene was enacted l the other day in Philadelphia. The man was bound for the Delaware riy- 1 er clad in a suit of grey clothes. so new that the price tags were still i visible upon it. and he was pursued by ! several people, among whom were l three or four policemen.
 ! Any city dweller of average suphis- tication would have taken more or | less interest in this sight as indicat- | ing that the police department had
 
 | catch a daylight thief who had been rObbing a clothing store. Yet things are seldom what they seem, and the old adgae, Never believe anything you hear and only half what you see, ' needs, in these days of the moving picture fad. revision in the direction of still greater incredulity.
 When the grey-clad man had run only 90 or 40 feet he stopped abruptly
 and, upan being joined by his pur suers the entire party climbed ami
 ably into a waiting stage coach and
 were driven rapidly away. With them
 went the man with the picture-taking machine, and this being set up in an other locality, the chase was acted over again, but with variations.
 This was all part of the street work, as 1t is called, in taking pictures which will soon be seen in some of the moving picture shows here and
 throughout this country and Europe. These pictures tell a story called Co hens Hard Luck" and the previous scenes were taken in a studio main tained for the purpose. Of these the first shows the exterior of Cohen's clothing shop. with his name over the door and his wares displayed on the sidewalk. The shop exterior is made up of painted scenery, but the cloth ings is real and rented from dealer, to the number of 100 suits or so, for the. purpose. Mrs. Cohen is seen, seated outside the shop, when along comes a citizen. He has an appear ance of toughness and does not look as though he was able to buy clothes, but Mrs. Cohen invites him inside, and Cohen emerging from the shop, the stranger is finally pulled in
 after the manner which used to pre- vail on Market street in the old days.
 The next scene shows the interior of the shop, with Cohen and wife dragging in the stranger. Once inside the man is finally persuaded to retire to a curtained alcoye and when ne comes out he has changed his owE oio| and ragged clothing for one of Co hens suits, the price tags of which are large enough to be seen two blocks away. The thief, as he proves to be, edges nearer to the door and when the opportunity presents itself dashes through it. That is all of the studio work there is for this story. The remaining scenes are taken on the real streets of the city as de scribed Of these there are six. call ed "chases," and each of them, taken in a different locality shows the flee ing thief running through an alley CT turning a corner, always pursued by the Cohens and policemen and some few spectators.
 The last chase shows the thief run ming toward the Deleware river, into which he jumps. One policeman jumps in after him and arrests him in the water; two others get a boat and go out and pick them up, while Cohen and wife stand on the pier watching and pleasantly anticipating the recov- cry of their property. When the boat reaches the pier. however, and the thief is hauled out, Cohen's hard luck is at once evident, for the recovered suit is so badly shrunk from its soak ing that the trousers come only to the knees and the sleeves to the elbows. The vest, too, has shrunk and below It Is seen broad strip of the thiefs ragged shirt Every time he pulls the vest down 1t flies back again.