El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-22
The Most Daring of All,
the Film Drama of the Air
Popularity of Aviation he Screen Is Said to Be IN
equalled by Any Other Scenario Licensed Pilots
Hay Work For Picture Films Photographers
Take Many Hairbreadth Chances.

IF YOU happen to see a launch ex-
plode in Great South Bay and i'm
mediateIy after witness the rescue
Of an exceedingly cOmely young wom-
an Dy the aviator of an aerOplane
( which has been lowering over the
( launch-dOn't be alarmed. Yes, the
young man who diYCd headlong from
the aerOplane is an aviator and may
be licensed by the Aero Club of Ameri-
ca, but that circumstance necessarily
doesn't bar him from seeking employ
ment with a moving picture firm.
If he sees fit TO spiral up to a point
Just above the statute Of Liberty and
then 10 leap from his machine with a
parachute in order to catch an ocean
liner which is sailing to Europe with
the villain aboard, don't call him fool
hardy 1t pays well in the moving pic
ture game"
If you see a great crowd around a
torn and bleeding body in the Mail Of
Central Park and the fragments OF a
wrecked aeroplane near by, don't jump
10 hasty conclusion The aerOplane
was wrecked SIX months ago and the
''deaa' aviator win presently rise and
wash the CHASTITY. evidence Of his fall
from his mangled face.
Now that aviation has appeared re-
Gently to be so nearly dead in this
country-thanks to our sOmnolent gov
ernment-the bir0men have taken TO
posing for the motion picture machine.
Indeed, they are doing a little picture
work themselves
Harry Bingham Brown. A. Leo Stev-
ems George W Beatty, Antony Janus,
Phillip Ward Page Frank T. COffyu,
Robert g. Fowler, Lieut. II. H. Arnold,
L. 3 A, and Lieut.. i. III. Kennedy. u.
$. A--'tO name but a few aviators who
nave taken up moving picture work
all find both amusement and profit in
playing a part before the rauidly re-
yolving film Of the motion picture cam
era
WOrk-a-day photographers. includ-
ing Jimmy Hare Of Golfers Weekly,
Adrienne Duff Of the American Press
Association, Edward Shaw and Tracy
A Tisdel and jack-Of-all- aerial-trades
such as ROdman Law, also have lately
been sought out by the big film com
panles to take pictures where the or
binary moving picture photographer
would balk at the risk engendered-
Unparalleled Realism.
Some time ago Leo Stevens. the
aerOnaut, and Tracy A Tisdeu. a nov
ing picture photographer, made an IS
censiOn for the purpose Of taking pic
lures to be exhibited at the now de-
funct Dreamland, Coney Island. Their
balloon started from the Bronx in first
rate shape and all went well until il hit
the Palisades opposite GOnkers.
Tisden kept his camera going from
the time the car of the balloon hit the
crest of the Palisades until 10 minutes
later, the balloon collapsed in the Hud-
son river. For realism the pictures aad
no equal at the time as Tisdell snapped
both the desperate efforts Of Stevens
to anchor his craft and the gyrati0ns
of the balloon itself as IL leaped along
the cliffs side and dragged through
the brush along the river bank
Speaking Of his experience with a
moving picture camera in the air re-
Gently Lieut. +. N. Kennedy said.
We started from College Park,
Washington, in the afternoon with the
idea Of carrying out a minute scouting
trip I had the motion picture mach ne
"a small eontrivance as easy 10 oper-
ate as an ordinary camera-and Lieut.
Arnold guided the biplane.
When we had reached 1900 feet AMI
the earth looked rather small I began
to reel off the film, pointing the cam
era directly toward the earth, so as 10
cover the road I held the camera in
this position during the major portion
of the flight, shifting it only a little
to the right and left to get the topog-
raphy in general
The only difficulty encountered
and IL is one easily remedied-Was in
definitely deciding just how much ter
ritOry we We're covering. There was
no finder in the camera, and Il was
therefore impossible to sight il as one
would if taking an ordinary photo
graph.