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STARK REALISM
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until the last moment, and then seen cumming for his life on- der the shelter of the hedge close by.
made that nothing would be miss- ing from its pitiful aspect.
Sprained Arkle,
The youngest film actor, possibly, Engine Overturns
in the world played his part. He Hundreds of spectators on the
was a baby four months old, who hillside gasped as the train struck had hitherto been loud in his pro- An engine and six coaches were the lorry with such force that it tests at being brought to such a wrecked at a level crossing at was immediately blown Into frag-strange place, but during the actual Lasham Hill Farm (near Basing-ments and sent in all directions rescue scenes, he played his part The red earth with commendable gravity and, an stoke), for the purposes of Alm realism.
entire absence of tears-not so com mendable in the distressing cir cumstances.
The Gainsborough Pictures Com- pany had made the most careful and elaborate preparations. The line on which their special train was wrecked runs from Alton to Basingstoke, and had to be ready again for traffic early the
next morning.
Twenty Cameras The company had secured the use of the line for the day from the Southern Railway Company, and more than 200 men were em ployed, elaborate stands for the twenty cameras used were erected, and everything done to ensure that there would be a. soul-satisfying and thrilling smash.
An old engine and six couches They represented the were used. train which the "Wrecker," the villain of the film, had decided to dostray. The train started on its run to destruction about a mile away from the level crossing.
A full head of steam was raised, then the driver and fireman open- ed the throttle and, as the train dashed along, jumped off.. The gradient at this spot is about one in fifty; consequently, by the time. the train was approaching the level crossing, where a lorry piled high with red earth had been villainous- ly placed, it had reached a speed of forty-five miles an hour.
There were cameras concealed in faked hayrick; there were three stands packed with camera men and
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trees. There was one camera, au- tomatically worked, on the engine of the train itself and it is not yet known whether it survived the smash. If it has there should be some wonderful pictures.
There was yet another camera, also automatically worked, twenty yards from the level crossing. The operator in charge stayed with it
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along the track. went up like the result of a bomb explosion, then the engine left the line, heeled over, and finally fell on its side about 200 yards from the level crossing.
The only casualty was incurred by Mr. McNab, the art director of the Not a single pane of glass, by film company, who, in dashing brisk- the most extraordinary chance, had ly from one place to another at the been smashed In the carriages. height of the "accident," fell down One, therefore, was smashed do- and sprained his ankle. He at liberately. There was Are. least justifled the presence of half Therefore Are wan made with a dozen St. John Ambulance men. the aid of
and petrol.
A breakdown gang was in read!- bombs. All amoke
was thenness to repair the line and to clear ready to take the-scenes of the the wreckage away as soon as the rescue work and arrangements lactors had finished,
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EDISON EXAMINES NEW COLOUR FILM.-George East- man, left, showing Thomas Edison the moving pieture film which he has perfected and which will produce movies in the full scale of natural colour. The first demonstration of this remarkable advance in photography at Eastman's home in Rochester was witnessed by a distinguished group of scienclats.
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