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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. '
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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.
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