Arizona republican., 1913-12-01
BRAVE DEATH ON
 LAND AND SEA
To Create Sensational Mov- ing Films for the Public. Girl Torn by Savage Beasts-One Actor Run Over and Killed

That death and danger fill the lives of the photoplay actors and camera men is shown by the thrilling stores of peril and hairbreadth escapes told in connection with obtaining realistic scenes for motion pictures.
 As dramatic as the pictures on the screens are the events resulting from attempts to portray men, women ana children in an arena with wild beasts the enactment of a scene showing train wreckers at work and the rep resentation of a suicide by drowning. Making a photoplay of Quo Vadis" was fraught with peril for the motion picture actors and actresses. When a scene in which fifty wild beasts play an important part was about to be staged near Rome. Italy, all of the big menagerie dealers in Europe were asked to obtain wild animals of the right type. Lions, tigers, wolves and partners were secured to make the scene more lifelike.
 The secret of the arrival of the ami mals had been kept from the members of the motion picture company, but when it was revealed they refused point blank to act with a horde of savage
 
 rectors of the company had planned to have the brutes in the arena with the crowd of men, women and children that took part in the production and they finally secured more actors by offering unusually high salaries and promising to take every precautiOn against acci- dents. The high wall about the arena was filled with lOopholes at each of which stood and expert marksman with a loaded rifle, ready to kill any animal that started to attack.
 It became known that the fears of the actors were well founded when large Bengal tiger made for a pretty actress in her teens. The force of his attack was stopped by a bullet, but he succeeded in severly mangling one of her arms One of the keepers was at tackled by a lion in the excitement that followed and he did not leave a hOspi- tai till six weeks afterWard as a result. Another tiger attacked an actor later on, but the mans life was saved by a bullet from a rifle
 F. Martin Duncan, weII-known British naturalist, has had many ad- ventures while taking living pictures of wild beasts on one occasion he erected his camera in a tigers cage in Carl Hagenbeck's great zoo in Ham burg when one of the tigers lost his temper, gave a furious growI and sprang toward him. Fortunately the camera was in the way This the brute
 knocked down and seized. crunching ii
 to pieces between his long sharp fangs. while Duncan made a hurried exit
 A dramatic termination occurred
 during the enactment of scene in
 which train wreckers were supposed to
 tie a signal man to the metal The en- zine was supposed to approach and to be stopped just in time to avert a trag- edy. Unfortunately, this latter proviso failed, for the man was run over and killed. A gruesome feature of the trag- edy was that the operator. who was stationed higher up the line, was quite unaware that anything was amiss and continued to turn the handle of the camera, thus recording every detail of the accident. The film was used as evidence at the inquest. but. of course was never exhibited The accident oc- cured before the photoplay men had gained the knowledge that the effect of showing a person about to be run over by cars could be obtained by run ming the train away from the actor tied on the tracks.
 On more than one occasion daring actors have sacrificed their lives in their efforts to obtain the proper effects. One day the steamboat pier at Bellevue, Paris, was the scene of a sad tragedy caused by an effort to give an accurate representation of drama in real life. In one of the scenes. enacted before the lenses of the moving pie ture camera a suicide is supposed to lilng himself into the river and drown The actor chosen to play the part was well known acrobat named Otreps.
 At the appointed hour he jumped Tar out into the Seine and struggled and shouted in a manner so intensely realistic that the people who were looking on clapped their hands and cheered Justify. Presently he sank, but as this was part of the "business" no one was surprised. Seconds grew into seconds. Otreps did not reappear.
 There were shouts for q boat Men pulled out, but there was no sign of | the poor fellow. It was not until an | hour later that his dead body was re- | covered. He had been seized by cramps | and his shouts for assistance had been taken for clever acting