The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-18


I'm the rear they moved very slowly,
indeed. This was another use for the
transparent disk mentioned before.
The train consisted of an engine AID
live cars. While it was stationary,
The wheels revolNcd with terrific
speed. This was done by the use oi
motors ana belts
THE auto was built Of proi!l"
scenery placed beside the train. \
smoke pot at the rear furnished the
Napor which follows i'm the wake ar Il
machine going at great speed. The
headlight was constructed about the
same as the one on the engine and the
same motors turned the wheels. ~
add t. the general idea of motion II
ground cloth was used which rcvolvcd
rapidly and was painted to represent
the sands of the desert. This ground
cloth was very much on the principle
of a common rollcr-towcl moving rap
idly. had 10 have the hero i'm the
auto turn over the cumbersome loco
motive. This | succeeded in doing by
having the automobile built upon NOV
ing trucks. GRADUALLY as the people
Icso in their seats with excitement,
the trucks we're imperceptibly drawn
nearer and nearer for awhile. but the
hero won the race and the big climax
came To an end amid wild applause.
1T is interesting To learn how les
ser effects are produced. - Take, for
instance. the sound of horses hoofs.
The popular manner of throwing this
sound in the thoater is 10y the use of
two halves of the shells of "A cocoanu;
from which the meat has been rcmov-
ed. These are manipulated against n
marble slab i'm such a way as to
| sound exactly like the beat of horses
hoofs. The imitation can be loud or
Subdued. in the distance or closer az
| the will of the operator.
when the producer desires a rain-
storm he must have a noise resemb-
| ling the pattcr of the drops For this
he has recourse again to the useful
cheese box Into this he places
quart of dried peas The boN is rc-
volved rapidly. and if YOU heard il
from Your bedroom you would most
! likely start ont with an umbrella The
ram is produced by using. a rctnlvius
panorama as described for other Ell
fccts, unless real water is desired,
when a perforated pipe is stretched
across the stage and water allowed
io drip from the holes
Snow is generally shown hS
scrctChing a cloth across the stage and
! Gling it with finely cut pieces of pa
per. Then 10y shaking the cloth a very
! real looking snowstorm cnsucs. Flee
trio fans add To the effect of the drift
! ng.
Distant shots on tho stage arS The
result of pieces of rattan struck
sharply against pads on cushions
Clock and church bells are sounded
| by striking "a deadened maliet against
brass and copper tubes"
Mr.. Carter stopped. Then ho coG-
clud"d, with "a smile: Sta" - cuic
effects, in short are arrived II. purely
and simply by fooing the ego aud
distorting perspective"
lie then turned to a brief dIscus-
| sion of the movies" and their effects.
A Neat Device.
III YOU see a picture of man
jumping from a bridge into a river
he said. you would not see anything
remarkable about it, but If the man
jumped from the river on To the brids"
you would wonder how IL was accom-
piished Here is the way 1t is done.
Pictures are taken i'm the regular wav
10y revolving the crank of the bln-
chine rapidly as the man passes
through space. Now reverse the him.
run the hand end first ami the man
jumps from the water on To- the bridge.
Very simple, isn't it?
"Onc film which ! produced IL re-
markable i'm the fact that 1t was taken
entirely in a studio and yet If you had
seen IT YOU would not have believed
IT, possible" he continued II showed
"A fifteen STORY office building. The
bookkeeper and office girl we're pre-
pairing to go home In the evening
She had hardly stepped into another
room before two burglars arrived ana
cverpowered the man, tying hiin hand
and foot. She heard the scuffle, AMI
going to the window. attempted TO at
tract attention by waving her hard'
kcrchief. BY changing the scene you
see the tall building with the girl az
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