. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. raper,but on a fire escape constructed sosimilarly to the real one that the sub-stitution was never noted. This built-up fire escape was erected on the floorof the Vitagraph studio as shown in theaccompanying illustration and the floorof the balcony was not over two feelfrom the studio floor. The cameraonly registered down to about twelveinches above the floor level and so whenthe man was hurled over he disap-peared from sight—dropped out of thepicture as it were—and appeared tohave been hurled to his death. A quick flash back to the scene ofthe
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. raper,but on a fire escape constructed sosimilarly to the real one that the sub-stitution was never noted. This built-up fire escape was erected on the floorof the Vitagraph studio as shown in theaccompanying illustration and the floorof the balcony was not over two feelfrom the studio floor. The cameraonly registered down to about twelveinches above the floor level and so whenthe man was hurled over he disap-peared from sight—dropped out of thepicture as it were—and appeared tohave been hurled to his death. A quick flash back to the scene ofthe real skyscraper and a close-np viewof the injured man lying where he hadfallen completed the illusion: ami everymind in the theater pictured the actualfall as having taken place and gasps ofsurprise at the nerve and daring of thephotoplayers went up. In, an Essanay war some time ago, the he climb a telegraph pole. thus preventing the em them trama 10 was cut till my froi shot by tin wire usin 1406 Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance. vancing Confederates before he coulddescend from the pole. As the bullettook effect and the hero reeled in mid-air and crashed down to his death atthe foot of the pole, everyone in theaudience was thrilled and awed. Somewho recall that just before the fall thecamera panaramed—that is, startedat the top and followed all the waydown the length of the pole—willdoubtless feel sure that there could havebeen no deception here as in the caseof the fire escape described above, forthe reason that they actually saw thewhole length of the pole and knew fora fact that the pole was many feet inheight. Yet in spite of that, the cleverproducer by a trick of photographyand substitution did fool them. Here is how it was done. The heroin cutting the wires was posed on thecross arms of a telephone pole thatstood some six feet from the . camera was so mounted that itshowed only the upper part of the poleand a distant skyline, which indicatedt
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