Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-09-15
MOVING PICTURES
ingenious Methods Of Producing
Startling Effects.
BRICKS OF THE CAMERA MEN.

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SONS and incidents That Seem to
Contradict the Laws of Nature Are
RGeOrded on the Finished Film.
eThe ingenuity of man is exercised
tOea wonderful degree in the creation
OF novel and seemingly impossible
situations and episodes for production
4pthe moving picture shows, and audi
.ences are often bewildered in trying
to decide how the curious effects,
which at times seem to contradict the
Jaws Of nature, are secured. Yet, like
the conjurer's tricks, it is all very sim
pie when the veil is lifted.
There are some scenes depicted
which, while amazing enough in their
way, do not puzzle the critical be-
holder In solving the ways and means
Of their making. There are the railroad
accident, obtained by means of chill
dren's toys; the warships and the
aeroplanes, which are also photo
graphs Of. playthings; the burglar in
his unheard of performance of climb
i9g the front of house, and-last, but
not least-the man clinging to the CELL
ing Of room. The pictures explain
themselves.
Q nut when we see a man jumping
sOut of fourth story window, see him
fau fifty feet to the ground and then
get up and run away unhurt, We ask,
How Is this possible? The origin of
the picture is very simple. The fugi-
tive jumps out Of a low window in
the studio, which is fitted up in the
style of the desired room. Then the
photographing process is interrupted.
The next picture is taken in the street
IN front of a real house. A life sized
puppet is dropped from one of the
windows. When it has reached the
ground the machine stops, the actor
puts himself in the place of the figure,
the reel is started again, the man gets
mp and runs away.
In like manner auto accidents and
similar episodes are arranged.
Another impOSsibility-a man swims
khrOugh river and on the other side
be climbs a ten foot wall without diff.
nculty. Origin of the pictures: The
man is photographed sliding from the
vail into the water, but in taking the
picture the reel is turned wrong way,
20 the motion is reversed when the
picture is reeled of in the right direc-
Hon.
The last obstacle in representing the
seemingly impossible was cleared
away when, some clever mind cOnceiv-
"a the idea Of stopping the photograph
ing process, not after a series of pic
nres, but after each single picture
Dr. after each, two or three of them.
Uhe work involved was enormous, as
eighteen pictures are taken every Sec
Dnd-that is to say, about $4,000 pic
lures are required for reel, which is
Oeamuse the public only ten minutes!
But human perseverance has accom-
plished the task. and the results OBJ
EHined are extraordinary. The follow
Ing examples will prove it:
A pile Of small stones is put on a
black table, and the apparatus is fas-
Nened vertically above the stones.
Ghen short turn of the crank. and a
lew Identical pictures of the stone pile
are taken. One of the stones Is then
removed from the pile: another short
turn. which gives two or three pictures
showing the first stones separate from
The pile. The process is repeated un-
III the stones laid aside by hand show
the writing, Good Nightp The fin
tHhed film does not show the hand
that removed one stone after another.
but creates the impression that the
stones arrange themselves in the form
Of magic writing.
Instead of the stones, lump of clay
may be placed on the table and some
kind Of "a figure is gradually modelled
from 1t by hand; but, this hand being
Invisible, it seems as if the figure
formed itself.
In the same way herring can grad
ually be sent back into the tin can
from which It was taken. - Garten-
lspbe. leipzig.