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FOURTEEN PAGES. DAILY EAST OREGOXIAJf, PEXDLETOX, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908. PAGE FIVE. METHOD OF C FILMS Hlnco Fendluton .has half a dozen moving picture nhowa, the munnur of making tho flltiiH for the picture will be exceedingly Interesting to the readers of tho Hunt Oregonlun. Tho following description of the proccHH, while quite lengthy, will be read with lnten-Ht. Tho scenes enacted upon the can vas must, of course, be flrHt enacted before tho appurutus. If their netting It the streets of I'arlH, they are per formed entire und uu nuturel In tho open street by actors suitably cos' turned uud made up. Ju tlx- I'lctiiro Hull. To see how, let us visit a "cinema' hull." It 1m 7 In the morning; the en tire Htuff 1h already on hand, not minute of the day In to be lout. The artlhtH cmergo from their dressing rooms costumed und nunle up. Make up Is us t-s.scntlul, for a play In the Htreet ns for a play on the stuge, no that the exprcHHlon of tho faced, here of cupltul Importance, ahull lone none of lis emphaHlH. We Join the adorn as they climb Into the theater omnlbuH, und, as we hurry to the uppolnted place, the best Dtuge manuger In l'arls M. litlenne Arnaut gives the urtists a last read ing of the Hcenario. The hero Is play ed by a comedlun from the Olympic In the first act he has received from his wife a tremendous cuff In the face, and now, with a swollen cheek, he In to ramble through I'uris. Woe to them that laugh ut him! A troupe of cIowiih In lung coats und high hat.s, a comedienne and an actor dressed up an a vender of newspapers have (unit- along lo play the purtn of these luckless cltlzonn. The afflicted husband must dash Into a drug store for ungt-nls to soothe hln burning cheek here Is a well lighted one that Just nultn our pur pose. We alight, surrounded by 50 people who have run after our omni bus, attracted by the strange appear ance of our troupe; with tho consent of the proprietor one of the clowns goes behind the counter while the blogruph apparatus Is being set up on the side walk. At a whistle from tho stage manager the man with tho swollen check rushes Into the shop and the clown roars with laughter. Zip! A blow sends him headlong. hxchangi' of cards. First duel In prospect. Tri!H on tlu Street. Kn route now for the next scene At the corner of a street In full sun- snine. a fountain. 1'erfect! the om nibus stops and the maltreated hus band sets about dashing water on his check. A second clown goes by arm In arm with the actress. They gig. gle. A blow hurls the clown Into tlu gutter. The clown has executed his "cascade" with such fury that he has burst his coat. More than 1!0I people In window, take the whole tiling se rious! nnd roar with laughter. r:y noon we have passed through two arronillssements, raised rumpus ses on the terrasse of a cafe, In a public garden. In three open squares, and In a dozen streets; an hour later, at Kalncy, under the trees of a park where we get a hilarious welcome, the hero of this burlesque epic, re fusing weapons for his duels, ktiocks down the entire troupe of clowns adversaries and seconds Indiscrim inately and leaven them in n heap, brandishing their arms and legs In the maddest confusion. Over (( Tcel of Klbbon. Til play Is completed. To record It, 6I0 feet of transparent ribbon have sufficed. n each yard of that ribbon 'more than HO photographs have been taken. When "J A Ouel a la Cifle" Is presented upon tho bio. graph screen 10.400 pictures will be shown within tho space of a few mo ment. ' lical danger sometimes attends this outdoor acting. Near Tendon, sev eral months ago, a manager of bio graph plays got up a drama Involv ing an attempt to derail tho London and Rrlghton express. Tho vllllans, according to scenario, were discover ed by an actor dressed ns nn employe of tho railway, and tied him down between tho rails. Naturally, while the series of photographs were being taken, the train was to stop for a mo mont so that the nctor could have his place taken by a dummy before It reached him. Unhappily, the driver was unable to stop his engine, and tho actor, himself tho owner of the blograph, was run over. Keal Drama Performed. When these real dramas are per formed upon tho screen, the figures move sometimes with an astounding rapidity. In tho funny little piny, "L'Echclle," the robber must run 100 yards down tho street while the appa ratus Is working. If he kept the crank turning at tho usual rate, the operator would get about 900 pictures. To produce nn Impression of greater speed, what does ho do? He cuts down tho number of pictures to 600, which still reproduces the dis tance ns before, but will bo run off upon the screen In a much briefer time. So tho actor no longer runs; ho bounds ahead with outrageous leaps, since a part of his successive postures hnve been omitted by tho blograph. One of the most successful films, "I.o Voyage do Nounou," has been tampered with In this way all through. A nurso that Is, a clown dressed up as a nurse In order to re capture baby's balloon, which Is lodg ed In tho branch of a tree, puts the Infant on a bench and climbs Into tho perambulator. Tho gound Is sloping, the baby car riage starts away, nurse, and all. It darts through Paris, charges along the bonks of tho Seine, reaches Rou en, then, Havre and the sea. There's no stopping It. It darts across the ocean, carylng Nounou to the Im nglnary land of Papouosla, where the natives make her their queen. CIowiih an liuinhoo Villager. To dress up a score of people as l'apoueslans and to erect a little bam boo villages In the Bols de Vlncennes was mere child's play. It was equal ly easy to transport clown and per ambulator to Saint Germain, Mantes and Anilciys along all the dizzy slopes that could be found. Hut how to ar range the trip across the ocean? At Havre a second baby carriage was built without wheels and perfect ly seaworthy. The clown got aboard, und a tug towed the extraordinary craft out to sea, while tho blograph apparatus followed and pictured the dancing baby carriage traversing the water. Hy touching out the tow rope in the photographs the trick was completed. There's u better one still. Uy some amazing enchantment the blograph can make horses gallop backward und make hats Jump from the ground und place themselves on their owner's beads. The film has simply been re,' versed. Muklng Uui Comic. To produce certain lengthy comic scenes, with wondrous fairies per forming In them, tho blograph man must have the Interior of a theater at his disposal. With the exception of the opera and the Chutelet, no theater In Paris Is well equipped as a iiiogrupn estauiisnment. rne OoumontH have one 140 feet long, with a stage CO feet deep and 105 feet high. The stage flooring Is strong enough to uphold a troupe of ele- pants, and has two approaches for teams. The. problem of lighting, here of prime importance, Is solved by a skylight of 1800 square yards. Twelve powerful arc lights afforded addition al Immumlnatlori. So powerful are they that they will blister your hands and face. Notices In the wings warn the artists against remaining too long within their glare. Everybody was delighted with the udveiitures of the gentleman who walked ap he side of the wall and run along the ceiling like a fly. Here Is the secret. A stage set representing a parlor wull was laid upon the floor; farther on a second stage set showed a room wall; a third did Tor the deco rated celling. Kadi had all its appropriate appur tenances. The apparatus was carried to the top of the theater and the lens pointed downward. Tho actor crawled on all fours from one stage set to the next, while the operator turned the crank. The film showed no evidence of the humbug, and the man wan shown really running along the celling. 'arx-ntcr Tools Have Life. Now we come to the case where in animate objects become animate. With no workmen present a carpenter shop assumes a lively activity the saw sawing a dank, the plane running to nnd fro. the lathe turning, the hammer rising and falling. This is how it Is done. Instead of turning a crank this time, the ope rator runs his apparatus by an elec trical arrangement so precise that It enables him to take one picture at a time. The stage manager moves tho which emerges unassisted from, a block of cloy. A soft clay model, newly formed, Is reduced by a series of beatings to a shapeless mass. At each step In the procedure a picture Is taken. The film Is shown run backward. In Fairyland. In fairyland the blograph Is at Its best, though the tricks are performed by the camera Itself. To make a human being melt Into air and van Ish keep diminishing the opening of the dlaphragh. To make a fairy ap pear pose the actress and, beginning with a closed dlaphragh, open It gradually. For miracles of magic, slowly close the diaphragm, thus blotting out on figure; while It Is closed substitute another. Run the film back to the point where the first actress begins to fade out, start the machine slowly open tho diaphragm and you make the second actress seem to evolve out out the first, since the new pictures will bo caught upon tho same parts of the film that hnve already regis tered tho others. Making Night Pictures. When the artists have gone home ond the lights are out the pranks of the blograph nre continued In the manipulation of the films. The elision of certain pictures will Improve the fun or mask the mechanics of a fairy scene. And coloring will no or vaiue. Night scenes will be dipped In blue bath, sunlight effects In a yellow bath, fire scenes In a roil bath, for est scenes In a green ba!h. If the pictures are to be colored In detail the work Is delicate In tho extreme and Is done by women They paint I In miniature under magnifying glasses and use the finest of brushes. Kverv dnv thousands of miles of film nre shipped nbroad by the bio- graph establishments of Paris. France leads the world In this produc tion. And the blograph has a future that has enlisted the Interest of the best playwrights. MM. Paul Hervleu. Iavnden and Jules Iymaltre have an nounced Intentions to create dramas for tho blogrnph that will be played by artists of the rank of Coquelln and Bernhardt. ' Third District, Fair Sept. PENDLETON, OREGON 28, 29, 30, Oct. .1, igger and 3. 3 Better Larger Premiums More of Them 25 De Caprio's Concert Band 2 j Th( Many Side Shows and Attractions Pavilion is Now Ready for Exhibits. Home Coming Week. Lets Get Acquainted. Monday, District Day Tuesday, Pioneer Day Wedn'day, Political Day Thursday, Oregon Day Friday, Educational Day Saturday, Baby Show Day Noted Speakers Every Day Meet Old Friends Face to Face FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS WRITE OUR SECRETARY. C. E. ROOSEVELT, President THOS. FITZ GERALD, Secretary. MIM.IOXS PAID FOU CATTLE. In Two Days Ijisi Wvk 50.0(10 Heiul Were KwIvmI In Kansas City. At the Kansas City stock yards In two days last week close to $2,B00, 000 were paid for stock, says the Kansas City Ptnr. Of this amount tho greater part went to Kansas, though Missouri. Arkansas, Oklaho ma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Ttah, Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa helped to swell the two days' re ceipts of cattle to KO.non, or 19,000 more than the Chicago receipts. Nebraska carlred off the honors for the best cattle. A three-carload bunch from the Harbaugh ranch sold at 17.5". Kansas was eecond with 129S to 1421-pound steers at $7.25 to .40, and Missouri first in the year ling class with tidy weight beeves at J6.75. On the buying side of the market tools Just so far and no farther, gets: 27 states were represented. Massa out of the way. and the picture Is chusetts and New York were after taken. So on to the end. When the export grades and nearlv everv state Fas and Missouri took most of thej feeding cattle. I This Is the time of the year when j the movement of range cattle is the: Important market factor and Kansas i City generally exceeds Chicago In the, number received. About 4 0.000 of j the entire cattle received here In the) two days were fattened on grass, and j traders say the movement of range i cattlo Is Just beginning. NAME ON CHECK WOCI.I) KEPKESEXT 10.000.000. film goes at normal speed tho halts no longer exist. The lllustlon is perfect. Same process for "La Statue," between here nnd t lie Atlantic coast took butcher grades. A number of thin cattle went to eastern states, though Illinois, Iowa. Nebraska, Kan- Seattle, Wash.. Sept. 19. One of the features of registration week at tlx; University of Washington, where 1103 students have enrolled for the school year, was the registration of Ten Million, a young' man hailing from Whatcom county, who paid the registration fee of $3 wlih as much nonchalialanec as though his name was John Jones or anv one of the thousands of other ordinary names. The Increase In registration over last year is 10 per cent. Fresh Olympla oysters bach's. at Iloh. iiiii Annul n nn mm am ...OF THE... WflMa Walk Comity Fair Association October 12-13-14-15-16-17 Km e 11 5DUUUMroaim iargii im stock: snow; S E SSATI ON A L rVTT ill I ?Wi TfcnVrr md Doa Shows. WW Pendleton's Passenger Time Card Arriving Pendleton O. R. & N. Leaving Pendleton $25,000 IN PURSES AND PREMIUMS Grandest Exhibition of Live Stock ever shown In the Northwest. Six Day Relay Race Purse $1,000 A large field of the fastest horses in the entire West are entered--New and novel features will be added to the regular daily attractions. Special Rates on all Railroads ROBERT JOHNSON, Secretary. Portland Passenger . . 4:10 p. m. Chicago-Portland Special 4 :40 p. m. Portland-Chicago Express 2:55 . m. Portland Passenger .... 8 :00 a. m. Chicago-Portland Special 12:25 p. m. Portland-Chicago Express 1 :05 a. m. O. R.r& N. WASHINGTON DIVISION m. SjHikane Passenger .... 4:30 p Walla Walla Passenger 10:50 a. m. Spokane Passenger .... 12 :30 p. m. Walla Walla Passenger 4:50 p. m. NORTHERN PACIFIC Pasco Passenger 11 :30 a. m. and 2:00 p ra. Pasco Tassenger. 4:30 p. m. UMATILLA CENTRAL Pilot Rock Passenger . . , 3:15 p. in. Pilot Rock Patenger . . . 8:45 a. m. THE WANT ADVERTISEMENTS ARE "INTRODUCING" When more people come to use and answer clisslficj adver tisements, more people will know each other More People With Mutual Interests Will Meet more people will find channels and opportunities for recipro cal service. Truly, the want ads are Introducing1 people shaming nway the scorn of small things, the scorn of "bargaining," of ex changing useful but not used things for useful and usable ones.
