Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-08-24
MYsTIFYING EFFECT OF THE
4 MOVING PICTURES is SIMPLE
Tricks in Making the Scenes Arr
Very ingenious.

Bucn results can Do ODIdlueu do a.
shown on the curtain.
1t has been estimated that 9
least 100000 persons attend tn
moving picture shows throughou
the world every day and Abilen
furnishes its quota. Despite tn
evident popularity Of the amusement
there are few who understand hov
the many mystifylng effects are pro
duced.
Everyone who has visited NOV
ing picture exhibition is familiar
with the ease with which moving
picture heroes and heroines run
nimbly up the sides Of houses when
pursued, and no doubt every one
has wondered at one time or an
9ther how the feat is accomplished
There are two ways of doing this:
One is to have the person DOSING
for the picture drawn up the side
of real house by means of a rope,
moving his feet all the time, las
though he were walking, the rope
being afterward painted out on the
film; the other and more common
way is to make the film in spe-
cially prepared studio. On the floor
canvas picture of the house in
question is spread and the man pur-
sued just scrambles along it on his
hands and knees.
The effect of inanimate objects
moving themselves, such as coffee
pots pouring themselves, chairs and
similar objects jumping up in the
air, chimney pots falling off And
flying back into position, and type
writers working of their own &C.
cord, is produced by means of wires
which are either too fine to appear
in the picture, or, If they show, are
readily painted out.
Railroad collisions are frequent
enough, one would imagine, to en-
able the moving picture concerns to
obtain genuine pictures of them, but
the thrilling pictures seen on the
moving picture screen are obtained |
in far less realistic manner. Min
iature trains constructed and stag
ed with great fidelity to actual con-
ditions, and which run automat
lcally, are used for the purpose, and
serve very well. Sometimes an auto
Is made to collide at a crossing with
q locomotive in a similar manner.
i The familiar film showing a
painter stenciling ceiling, to
which he appears to be clinging in
/ most unnatural manner while an
assistant is holding a pot of paint
Up to him, never fails to create
among the uninitiated. +,
put is easily made. The pictures
ire taken in Ia make-believe room,
he walls of which are painted up :
ide down on a four sided screen, !
nd the floor of which is painted :.
White to resemble the ceiling. To !,
after across the top a man is sus- .
ended by his feet and holds an :,
mpty paint pot toward the floor, a.
pom which the man posing as the \
ainter kneels. The latter holds :,
tencil to the floor with one hand
nd with the other dips brush in G
10 paint pot which the suspended
ian holds toward him. After the
Ictures are taken the film is run
II upside down and gives the topsy- ?,
lrvy effect desired -
In a similar way the film which -,
lows man holding himself to the -
iling by the top of his head and =
e palms of his hands is made, the =.
an simply standing on his head. -
, make the picture realistic, tables =,
ID chairs are attached to the make y
lieve room and an elaborate chan
lier is attached to the floor, so
al when the film is reversed the ~
OH will appear to be fully fur w.
she'd and equipped. 81
In two out Of three moving pic W
res there is a pursuit in which -
IN, women and children are made ~
scamper over hill and dale at .
enomenal speed, horses and wag-
) and automobiles tear pell-mell
'ough the streets, knocking over
policemen in their path, and
lrything moves with a hustle and
tile that is little short of amaz- ."
/. 1t is needless to say that
Their the animals nor the in :,
mate subjects of the pictures i"''
r actually covered space at the WIS
E indicated. When the pictures
taken the persons posing for ,
m may move hs lelBurely as -
= please, the effect OF speed be- VI
produced by cutting out numer- ,ne.
sections of the film. 70
he jerllg effect seen in some uee'