The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08

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DID you ever come out Of a moving
picture show with the feeling that you
had been dreaming dreamsT
There is nothing that so thoroughly
combines absolute mathematical exact
ness with fantastic unreality as the
modern entertainment known as
moving picture show. There is moth
Ing that requires more scientific and
artistic skill in the making or more
care and dexterity in the reproducing
than the pictures shown by the kline
toscope. and there is nothing more
mystifying to the beholder than these
same pictures, when they are thrown
on the screen In the theater. In the
same afternoon, perhaps, you will see
thrilling train robbery, prize fight.
dainty little domestic comedy,
scene during trip of one of the pres
ldential candidates, a fairy tale of
your childhood, and some of the magi-
cal pictures In which stones roll rap
Idly up hill, saws and hammers work
without human assistance. or skele-
ton gradually develops flesh and cloth
Ing The commonplace is SO mixed
with the impossible that while you
are looking at the pictures you find
yourself believing it is all perfectly
real and natural, and 1t Is only after
you have left the theater that you
realize 1t Is a trick. an optical flu
sion. and you wonder how it is done.
The effect upon your mind is much
like that produced by dream you
have had, only in the case of the cine
matograph you try to analyze the
process
| Behind the Scenes.
| But the process Is unanalyzable, I'M
less You are permitted a peep behind
the scenes of the business of film MAX
Ing. Once in the film makers studio
however, you find the making of the
pictures far more interesting than the
pictures themselves One moment you
laugh at your own stupidity in not
guessing "how it worked" The next
you are lost in admiration of the clev-
erness of the film makers in being able
| tO ho
means about them to produce such ex-
traordinary results. And you never
see moving picture afterwards with
out remembering how it, or one like it,
was made
Art, the drama, nature. mechanical
FORCES, all have part in the produc-
ton of the pictures that are repro
duced all over the civilized world for
the moving picture show has become
the most universal Of all amusements
Every manufacturer of motion picture
films maintains large company of
actors, a theater of his own with an
immense stage fitted with traps, tanks
lift and other usual scenic accessories
and larger corps of stage carpenters
scene painters, scene shutters and
property men than Is thought neces.
sary in any of the first-class tlleaters
In Europe or America. All sorts of
ingenious methods of producing I'M
usual effects, all the devices for ere
ating realistic illusions known to the
stage and many that are impossible on
the real stage, are employed. Every
kind of scenery and stage setting are
used, People of all ages, sizes and con
ditions, 1.-The lame, the halt and the
blind as well as the physically per
feet, take part in the various scenes
Sometimes the actors play their parts
on a real stage, sometimes they act II
! the fields or woods or even on the
streets of city, and sometimes they
go partly through a performance il
the midst Of natural surroundings ant
complete the play on the stage of the
alter, or vice versa. 1t all depends OF
the subject of the picture and the wa,
the idea is worked out.
Dramatic ability of high order Il
necessary in the actors who pose be
fore the speeding kaleidoscope, for act
Ing alone must tell the story of tn,
play they are presenting. and many O
the subjects are too artistic to ADM
of mere pantomime as an exposition
OF their meaning.
Trick Pictures from France,
The kaleidoscope is not French in
vention, but its development along ar
tistlc lines is due almost entirely t.
French ingenuity. In England, and II
America till quite recently, 1t wa
used merely to record events as the,
occurred. such as the unwilling of ,
monument, the Inauguration of a pres
ident OF the United States. boa
race, prize fight, a championship
baseball game, or Il great parade N
attempt was made to crea te subject
for the machine to photograph. and al
fanciful pictures, color pictures, O
others that were out of the ordnar,
were left for the French film maker
to produce, and the result has beef