The Seward gateway., 1922-07-03
HIS DINOsAUR FILM
 A HOAX, SAYS DOYLE
MOVING PICTURE OF PREHIS- ToRIc BEASTS WAS SHOWN
 TO FOOL MAGICIANS

fled the Society of American Maglclans at the Hotel McAlpine, San Francisco recently, with motion pictures of ex tinct animals which he described as psychic" and "prenatura'," but not occult or supernatural wrote a letter to Harry Houdini saying that the pictures were taken from the forth, coming film, "The Lost World" which is based on his fantastic novel of that name.
 Whether the film, "The Lost World will be actually exhibited or not is an oien question: however, because Her bert NJ. Dawley, who has filmed in his studio dinosaurs and diplodocuses and other reptiles of millions of years ago asserted yesterday that his paten rights had been infringed in the Doyle pictures and that he would at once seek an injunction to prevent the pro duction of "The Lost World"
 With all the outward sobriety which has marked his exhibition of pictures Of supposed spirit materializations, of nctoplasin ard ether appearances sun pcsrd to be connected with the spirit world, the famous Englishman intro duced his films to the professional magicians.
 Oinosaurs of one tribe appeared on inc screen and rubbed jaws With edci other in an affectionate manner. Then entered the tyrannosaurs or olhosau's of the fighting and killing type WHICH nraved on the browsing members ol their family. The tyran"osanrs Ioush' among themselves, interlocked thell great jaws and wrestled. Flnally one b7oke the back of the other anu ID about to devour it when up dasheu q +ricaratops. the three horned giant an cestor of the modern rhlnocefos' WHO drove away the tyrannosaur. Ihen ep- neared the stegosaurus, an aTmor- nlated monster whose defensive equip ment saved him from repeated attacks of the dinosaurs.
 
 All this was carefully introduced Dy Sir Arthur with talk which left II an onen question whether it was a hoax or whether he believed he was giving the magicians a private view ot some novelties of the fourth dimenslonal universe, where elves and sprites and octoplasmic manifestations have been photographed.
 In presenting this, Sir Arthur an- nounced that he would answer no ques tions whatever relating to the subject, As he had never mixed practical jok- ing with his psychic propaganda in this country the audience was consid- erably mystified not by the pictures, but by the problem of Sir Arthur's own intellectual relation to the sub ject.
 The realistic movements of the big animals, the ripple of their muscles under the skin and the apparent con- formity of all parts of their body to their successive changes of attitudes are all based, Herbert M. Dawley as serted, on substance and mechanism invented by himself and pirated from him for use in the 'ELost World" pie lures.
 Explains How They Are Made
 MT. Dawley, who is now a partner of Tony Sarg, first showed the films Of prehistoric animals more than three years ago, and yesterday explained the process in detail. His first picture was sThe Ghost of SlumbeT Noun tains," which was shown in this city late in 1918. The next was ...Along the Moonbeam Trail
 MT Dawley asserted yesterday that he held the basic patents and the de velopment patents for this sort of work, and that the Doyle pictures had been worked out with the unlawful as sistance of former employe of his who had obtained the secrets of show | ing big reptiles in lifelike .evolutions while working in the Dawley studios Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could not be reached but his secretary said:
 "If it is true that any one claims that his pictures have been infringed upon in this picture that is matter with which Sir Arthur has nothing tc do. The actual work of producing the films is in the hands of Mr Rothakel and Sir Arthur has ns reason to sup | pose that the work is not done in { perfectly legitimate manner He vii be very much interested in this devel opment but he naturally has to leave legal and business matters in tn, hands of others''
 It is planned to produce "The Los lWorld' in this city within the nex few months. The patents claimed b,
 MT. Dawley cover thre artieulated me tai skeletons of the beasts, the artifi cial sinews which control their mo
 t1ons, and firm, elastic substance o . his invention which connocae IT.