Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-10

instead of drama the man nearly drowned.
THESE little side lights the production of movie
thrlers mirror the presentday craving for the
usual exciting, and thrilling in motion picture photog
raphy The audience practically dares the film make
it thrill or laugh weep The movie men know this,
there's terrific competition in the movie business and
producers go unheard of lengths to "beat.
The actors the who bear the brnt of this pub
lie craving for the realism in movies The producers
bear the expense and heavy this is.
Thousands of dollars spent the production OF
sngle-reel drama, comedy, or tragedy. Bridges are
built, and then blown up Houses bought or built
and then burned to the ground order to let the audi
witness the of the beautiful heroine Whole
menageres bought and kept permanent property
for the various productions
When company sets up field headquarters in any
section of the country for staging outdoor and indoor
scenes, whole villages built accommodate the
actors hospitals erected, stores rum and telephone,
telegraph and even wireless installations are made
keep the who makes the animated weekly films
in direct touch with all that's happening in the
rounding country.
great fire breaks riot is started in nearby
town. the animated weekly gets first news of it.
By powerful automobile chartered train he is carried
to the scene Often he reaches before the ctys police
or fire laddies do.
There is no end the thrills be derived from inside
knowledge of thriller production The things that hap
pen and thrown the would fill book.
nNE of the most daring pieces of work to produce
thriller took place in city where company had
up winter quarters. Somebody submitted scenario
calling for most unusual rescue of girl from burn
ing building.
The girl to be stationed on the top floor. The
roof of the building be santing And the build
ing to be not less than eight stories high. All
this be shown by the film which would be taken
from window on the opposite side of the airshaft.
That's scream!" cried the director when he had
read the scenario.
Forthwith he proceeded secure the necessary lay
out First he needed to rent top in high
building covered by santing roof. He found it. Op
posite the window from which the heroine to be
rescued he arranged for window space from which his
camera could take the scene
But when it to getting the actors for the
he against stone wall. His had waded into
lagoons and fought off live, hungry agators, they had
fled before herds of stampedng CATTLE they had fought
lions and dropped from balloons but they baked at
what he now put up to them
They had never formed human chain of themselves
reaching from the backbone of the roof to the caves
looking down than hundred feet of airshaft to
the cobbles below, and hoisted girl from the window
below and back again the roof. Each had to
lie down upon that roof and grasp the other fellows
ankles The last mans body was swing clear of the
He was to reach down and grasp the girls up
held hands. Then the human chain the other side
of the roofs backbone pull pull pull until the
girl safe.
anyone OF the 11len WOulQ nave Oeen Wiling 10 I'LL
the place of any actor that of the who
lean the brink and swing the girls wrists
There's where the trouble lay.
At last the manager found ex-acrobat who had
done aerial tricks in his day. This listened to the
scenario and said he game to play the part of the
who actually held the girl So all arranged
and rehearsed.
The rehearsas went off beautifully. The camera
man said that the film would be money maker. From
his station in the window the airsfat he could
take the scene and every and then turn his
down to show the dizzy height at which it
being enacted The audience would gasp when it saw