Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-01
NEW SKETCHOGRAFS
MADE IN NEW WAY
Difference is Due TO Time Con-
suned in Photographing
Animated Cartoons.

The new sketchOgrafs by Julian Ol-
lendorT which Educational has re-
Gently begun releasing. arc 80 die
tinctly different. both in method ~
making and in appearance on the
screen, from the animated cartoons
4 with which the motion picture low
/ ing public has become familiar. that
: the process followed in their produc-
/ ton Is an interesting study. Yet the
animated cartoon is the only type of
picture 10 which they can be ar au
I compared, and they perhaps can ts
i connection with it.
Il Every motion picture patron is
1 more or less familiar with the anil
mated cartoon, and many of them nm
I derstand in a general way the method
Of making them, although but few
realize the intricate details involved.
To make q single subject ~ about
: 500 feet requires hundreds of sena-
rate drawings. made BY a force -
artists and assistants working steadily
for many days. sometimes weeks.
These drawings are ph0togra uhed one
J at a time, in the order called Tor ~
the action. One foot n motion uir-
ture film consists Of sixteen frames
: or pictures. The film is projected onto
Z the screen at the rate Of one foot ner
second. The picture patron sees 81 q
very few minutes what 10 has taken
: often weeks 70 photograph.
The chief difference between the
process Of photographing animated
= cartoons and making a regular photo
Z play is that IN the photoplay the pic
: lures are taken at the same rate 40
which they are later proiecfed-six-
Z teen a second-whereas in the car-
= toons they are taken one picture Il
a time.
The apparatus for ph0tographing
: animated cartoons consists of 81 table
/, on which the drawings are placed in
j position TO be photographed. a regu-
I latiOn motion picture camera is aus-
- pended above the field where fh.s
n drawings are placed, the lens point
! ing downward toward the table. An
n attachment is made with the camera
n 50 that a picture e taken each time
~ lever is pulled. "Aniniatorsf changs
ID the positions OF the drawings aa res
% quired between exposures. The draw
ii ings have all been made IN advance.
r legs. body, etc. FOR the successive
N movements Is al that is required. Cn-
falling patience is the chief requisite
OF for this work.
Of The process of making Szetch0graf.
m differs from that Of filming animated
- cartoons chiefly in that the @Eketcho-
L, grafs' are not completed tn advance
I'D and then photographed but are AZ.
tually drawn under the camera and
is photographed as they are being made
lie There is another big difference be-
tween animated cartoons and Sketcho.
grafs. The cartoons are usually
series Of reels made around the %.
ings OF a character or group of char.
il acters. each subject being a variation
Of the stunts these characters q.
al through. In other words they are
ne generally speaking, serial comics.
er Each Sket. .lograf IS an individla
rs subject. complete in itself. IL con
OF sists OF a series Of ideas, usually abou
thirty, Illustrating the chosen subiec.
on The picture shows the draWins q
10 these thirty sketches in the Qrde
re in which they best tell the story g
ie- hand. Some Of the reels have actua
TO motion pictures interspersed hefweei
'2t the sketches an impressi0nisuc sket
r. often fading into real moving ple
n ture OF the people the sketch na
est caricatured.