The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-01
THE TROUBLES
Of MOVING
PICTURE NAN

interfere with our work at times, but
then, too, there are occasions Wnen
their slamming in really helps u.s.,
said a man who makes moving picture
films of all sorts of near-posslDle ana
impossib,e scenes and Incidents It's
NOT easv to guard against people with
the butting-in habit when you're max
ing moving picture films, for when
thew see any unusual thing coming off
on the street Or in any public place
their natural busybody instinct grabs
a-hold of them and they're bound to
mooch in and attempt to take hanc
in TIE proceedings.
over in Philadelphia, the other
day. / fixed up horsewhipping scene.
1t was easy enough to get the first
part Of the set. 1t was scene in
restaurant, in which a pretty girl,
seated at table a little distance away
from aonther table at which fro,ic-
some. man with homely wife is din
ing falls to making goo-goo lamps at
the man. The second scene, in which
T arranged to have the horseWhipping.
took pace outside the restaurant. AS
usual. we'd got police permission to
take the pictures. and l had two or
three men stationed in front Of the
restaurant to keep the crowd back
while the phony horsewhipping was
going on.
Nevertheless, when everything was
all set and the machine was swapping
| away at the homely wife laying the
lash across the face and shoulders OF
| the flirtatious giri-the lash looked
like a rattan, but it was harmeless
bogus. of course, and didn't hurt at
ar-our troubles began. First of all
q big van of q man slammed in and
grabbed my homely woman by her
lash welding arm, brawling that he
/
stingin' another woman like that-a-
wav: and that, of course grabbed one
set of films.
The machine had to be stopped
while the big s.aminski was being in
formed that the thing was only
tableaux and that he didn't kick into
the picture by rights at ALL He took
the iibes of the crowd pretty sourly
at that. and looked to be IN so much
of mind to kick our gear to pieces
that l had to get a cop to walk him
down the street
| when we got all set again and the
horsewhipping Of the flirtatious CIR
was once more in progress, a Scrawny
Ratchet faced woman who had just
Joined the outer circle of the crowd
and who wasn't jerry to what was
coming off, rushed into the scene with
a shrek, grabbing my two acting
women by the hair puffs, and started
in to rough 'em both for their in
decency in showing up their sex by
fighting on the street. as she squak-
ed at them. Of course, the machine
had to be stopped again, for the Incl
dent as I had framed it up didn't call
for any stuff Of that sort l had it
arranged that after the whipping had
proceeded for a space the guilty hubby
Of the homely wife was to rush in
and attempt to separate the two wo-
men, whereupon his wife was to turn
upon him with the lash, causing him
to make a humorous beat-it down the
street. Then the flirtatious girl with
the languishing wicks was to seize
the whip from the other woman's
hands and start in to get hunk for the
cutting she'd received, the scene wind
ing UP that way. But 1 had to get a
Gordon of the restaurant employees and
cops around the front of the restau-
rant before We could pun OH, Wiliioue
interruption, the horsewhipping part o.
the set. and by that time the propri
etor Of the restaurant was out on the
sidewalk, storming around and dead
sore on account of the notoriety he
said we were bringing upon his place
of business.
THAT, of course, was an instance
where the slaminskis grabbed our
films, but, as l say, there are plenty
of cases where the butters-in invol-
unfairly serve us good turn.
For example, while back, over in
| Newark, N j.. l fixed up a pocket
picking scene-it has been shown in
| Washington-that was vertically
dandy by reason of it's extreme natur-