. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . xon Van Valkenberg HE railroad play has come intoits own again—this time in therealm of the motion of the silent dramahave turned their attention to the rail-roads for local color and for death-dealing,hair-breadth, awe-inspiring scenes, de-picted so true to life as to beggar detec-tion. It goes without saying that theyhave had a hard nut to crack in visualiz-ing the perplexities of railroading. Just as in the days of yore, melo-dramatic playwriters often relied upon railroad scenes of a sensational nature toget their plays over, so h
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . xon Van Valkenberg HE railroad play has come intoits own again—this time in therealm of the motion of the silent dramahave turned their attention to the rail-roads for local color and for death-dealing,hair-breadth, awe-inspiring scenes, de-picted so true to life as to beggar detec-tion. It goes without saying that theyhave had a hard nut to crack in visualiz-ing the perplexities of railroading. Just as in the days of yore, melo-dramatic playwriters often relied upon railroad scenes of a sensational nature toget their plays over, so have the ex-ponents of the moving picture dramafollowed in the footsteps of their pre-decessors, with the same degree of they have veered from the old pathin employing real railroad effects insteadof what are connnonly calhnl stageprops, which, behind the footlights, areused in substitution for the real , of course, is one of thegreatest industries of the country and itfollows that any play or motion picture. A HKALISTIC WRECK INDEED—BIX-AISE ABSOLUTELY HEAL. ONLY THE CARE STAGED IX THE TRASH AFTER IT OrCFRS \RACTER.« 25 2G THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE film that uses any form of railroading asthe basis of its plot is going to grasp thepublics attention at once. This wasdemonstrated by the success of TheFast Mail and The Limited Mail,two of the greatest railroad plays in thepalmy days of melodrama. In this epoch-making era, when themost incredible things are possible, thesensational railroad scenes produced b}-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 f
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