. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . -the motion film concerns and offeredthe public, from a reahstic standpoint,have the rail-road scenes of-fered on themelodramaticstage, paled in-to insignifi-cance. It ishard to fake amotion filmof a railroadwreck. Actionis what counts,and in order toobtain action,real life or ac-tual effectsmust be producingstupendoussensationalrailroad scenes,money and, insome instances,human lifecount for little,so great is thedesire for theeffect. There is noth-ing under thesun that willhold or sway the pubUcs attention like a railroadscene, whether it pict
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . -the motion film concerns and offeredthe public, from a reahstic standpoint,have the rail-road scenes of-fered on themelodramaticstage, paled in-to insignifi-cance. It ishard to fake amotion filmof a railroadwreck. Actionis what counts,and in order toobtain action,real life or ac-tual effectsmust be producingstupendoussensationalrailroad scenes,money and, insome instances,human lifecount for little,so great is thedesire for theeffect. There is noth-ing under thesun that willhold or sway the pubUcs attention like a railroadscene, whether it pictures the serio-comicor the tragic side of life. Imagine, forinstance, the sensational possibilities ofa picture of a head-on collision betweentwo giant speeding locomotives on a singletrack railroad, taken from an actual occur-rence. Each engine as represented in thepicture has its train behind it, and bothare going at a rate of speed estimated atforty miles an hour, when suddenly the. AN OLD ENGINE IN A NEW ROLE head-on collision occurs! This is preciselywhat happens, and in order to get theeffect, these scenes must be speciallyposed. Have you ever wondered howthe trick was done? The Lubin Film Manufacturing Com-pany recently produced a film calledRescued From The Wreck. In thisphoto drama two rapidly traveling trainsare seen approaching each other on asingle track railroad. In the play neitherof the train crews are aware of the prox-imity of theother train, orknow that awreck is immi-nent. O n e o fthe trains inquestion c o n-sisted of an en-gine and threepassengerc o a c h e s—theother of an en-gine and sevenfreight carefulrehearsing, thetrains met,head-on andwith terrificforce, at thedesignatedpoint, wherethe camera men-were waiting,protected fromthe flyingwreckage bysteel shields notunlike thoseused on fieldguns. The steelmonsters metwith a mighty roar, reared in theair, and locked in each others embracelike two mighty gladiators in deadly con-flic
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