. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. netic gentleman passes over a man-hole cover set in the middle of the pavement. To theamazement of the audience, the cover is seen to rise up onits edge and to bowl along the street in pursuit of itsdisturbing factor. The cover is a stage property made ofwood, manipulated by wires controlled by the the cover is raised there is a short stop while astage hand enters the picture to give the cover its hoop-like impetus necessary to start it rolling, the actor thenpulling it along by means of a wire, so that the coverfollows hard on the h
. Moving pictures : how they are made and worked. netic gentleman passes over a man-hole cover set in the middle of the pavement. To theamazement of the audience, the cover is seen to rise up onits edge and to bowl along the street in pursuit of itsdisturbing factor. The cover is a stage property made ofwood, manipulated by wires controlled by the the cover is raised there is a short stop while astage hand enters the picture to give the cover its hoop-like impetus necessary to start it rolling, the actor thenpulling it along by means of a wire, so that the coverfollows hard on the heels of the luckless individual, untilits career is arrested by two workmen, who struggle withthe strange runaway. But the magnetic gentlemans misadventures have by nomeans ended. He is passing a lamp-post, when suddenlythe metal, attracted by the coat of mail, endeavours to jumptowards him, with the result that the post snaps in lamp-post is a dummy or stage property, hinged atabout half of its height so as to permit the upper part to. V
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