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TRICK FILMS

BOME SECRETS OF THE DINEMATOGRAPH.

By W. G. FAULKNER.

Every now and then you may see groups of people in London staring, spellbound, as a poster which show a number of lioris advancing across a wide arena towards and despairing group of men, women. children. The picture draws forth various comments, the majority of which, as I have heard them, are of a geoptical natura. Lions let loose on defenceloas people! Impossible They would tear.

them to pieces.

It is a moving pieture that the poster relers to Did the lions rouch the people? The picture itself gives that impression, for in one part the lions are seen among a heap of what looks like Tangled bodies. As a matter of fact no

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Whe happened was this. The lions used for the scene belonged to a party of lion tamers, some of whom were in the While group of people to be attacked. some of the tamers drove the lions for- ward, themselves out of the range of the camera, other tamore stood in the group. ready with revolvers to frighten the boasts.

tha revolvers were fired, all but one of the lions bolted-the one having to be driven away--the camera was stopped, and the arena cleared. Then dummy bodies and parts of bodies, were scattered about the arena, the lions were driven to the spot, very simple affairs, when taken by the and the camera was set to work again. tial measuring indicator and an easily "trick camera," which is fitted with a and By dexterously cutting the film joining it, the transition in the picture adjustable diaphragm stop to the lens. from the advance of the lions to the death The steady opening and closing of the of the victims seemed to the eye so short aperture of the lens, admitting or exclud that it was impossible to detect the actsaling light, gives the effect of the appari-punishes--and thoroughly, too. break, which really occupied some hours.tion's appearance or disappearance. The illusion was made all the more per- fectly by showing pictures of the audience watching with apparent enjoyment the scenes supposed to be going on in the

arona.

THE CAMERA "SHUTS ITS EYE."

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pronounced. which later on in life will be very

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Nature throughout all life, from the DIRECTORY

flowers to the human species, gocs regu- larly at preparation for mating. When her laws are disobeyed or neglected she

No girl should be kept under the nervous strain of preparation and antici pation over a year; six months will toll upon the nervous system of the average Snap engagements with American girl. hope deferred are responsible for many wrecked girls, morally and physically.

True, genuine love will overcome all obstacles; fickle fascination will raise a heap of objections which are only subter- finges for procrastination. This attitude of the male is only to show possession of CHINA a girl without the manly determination ta, be responsible for his actions

The trick system which once mystified audiences is to-day applied to many Men are seen to jump ordinary films. from trains apparently going at sixty miles an hour, but in reality hardly four, others are bound to railway tracks and helpless as an express train dashes over One frequently sees pictures which show them, seemingly cutting them to pieces: people falling over high cliffs or drop motor-cars are smashed to picces or knock ping into rivers from which they never people down and kill them; houses and rise. The effect is perfect, but the means factories are fired, chimneys are blown taken to producs it are concealed because down, battle, murder, and sudden death are shown on the screen nightly, and ye the camera shuts its oye, so to speak, at

no one in the audience screams or faints

There ought not to be many excuses for Not long ago the right moment.

long engagements. The young man should These things are taken with outward never propose first and then wait to build picture was shown of two men struggling or is carried away with excitement.

up his fortunes to meet the necessities of on a rocky cliff whose jagged edges sloped Home 250 feet to the sca. The picture calm, although there is undoubtedly an expected to arrive at this port via taken from the land side showed the inward thrill of some degree, according matrimony, as it is unfair to the girl. struggle Suddenly one of the men fell as to whether the spectator is accustomed And the excuse that short engagements do over. The camera did not, because it or unaccustomed to pictures.

He knows that it is only a picture be not give couples sufficient time in which to become acquainted is absurd, for there could not, show the staging built und fenced some three or four feet down, and is seeing; although his eye sees things should have been no engagement until the that in real life would turn him sick with couple were thoroughly acquainted, and, atted with a mattress on which the un-

Nor did it reveal horror, his mind tells him that in pictures such being the case, a long engagement The young man de fortunate actor fell. another camera

dwinked for his filmeet the boat below which people are not really killed, that thewould be foolish.

rock to death merely the work of stertainment, remanding a long engagement is unfair to Wild Wit the girl making such a down those 230 feet of When the picture was shown the change Ex.

FOR from the struggle on the cliff to the roll- ing down the face of it was so quick that the audience had no time to think that the seene, which to them was from one point of view, had been filmed from two points with some hours' break while the dummy

WHY LOVERS SHOULD MARRY SOON. body, made ready on the top of the cliff, was rolled down so that the operator in

Nothing in a girl's life will use up the boat could take that part of the scene. A clever piece of cutting and joining nervous force with such sad results as a mado the two scenes one and provided the long engagement, says Dr. William Lee Howard. There are physical as well as thrill.

On another occasion one may watch on the screen the perilous climb up the front paychical reasons for this fact. Singapore on the 27th June, for this port and roof high house. Las reality the physician knows of the nervous wrecks and may be expected to arrive here on Velimb is a crawl by the actor on the floor I due to this latter cause alone. These are or about the 3rd July.

of the studio, where wall and roof are one of our secrets which we are only too The Apcar str. Arratoon Apeur, from painted. The operator who is taking the Pleased to let the public know. We have From the day a girl becomes engaged Calenta, left Singapore on the 27th picture is in the flies with the camera not had opportunities before to take the man to marry, life to her changes in many June, and may be expected here on or pointing to the floor at just the right public into our confidence,

Another picture shows a angit,

things. First there is joy and happiness, about the 3rd July am.

Below left climbing a tall tree with a

In reality he is with which goes anticipation and healthy The .A.E. str. Furst

Then she is more or less Shangh on the 28th June, at noon, and fastened on his back. may be expected bere on or about the crawling along the trunk of a fallen tree.

Giants or Lilliputians are made at will imagination. 3rd Jule. alm.

by fixing a camera on a pair of rails and confined to the companionship and plea- moving it nearer to or further from the sures of the man who promised to marry One of the very earliest of the her. She sees life through his eyes and object trick films showed a collision between two thinks only of the future no associated trains among the mountains. In this sim with her future husband. carriages and engines were thrown down an embankment by the force of a collision.

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The 1G.M. dr. Yorck, carrying the German mails with dates from Berlin of the 11th June, loft. Colombo on the 28th June, and may be expected here on or about the 0th July.

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LONG ENGAGEMENTS CONDEMNED.

NERVOUS EXHAUST

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The Barber Lino str. Staung from New York, left. Singapore on the 29th Jane, and is due here on or about the 5th July.

The FAL. str. Preussen left Singa- on the 9th June, p.m., and may be expected here on or about 4th July, a.m.

The N.K. str. Fokohama Mar, the effect of which was heightened by a life are made she steps into the matri

crashing noise made by the effects man.

This is as it should be if all goes well,

and when the preparations for married monial state a healthy young woman.

(American Line) left Kobe for this port In reality the scenery was painted and The girl's mind and soul have developed, via prets on the 27th June, and ported here on the 6th July,

The NYK. str. Kanagawa Marup of toy models, but the illusion was so (Colenta Line) left (autta for this no perfect that the public really believed that

ita benefit. via ports on the 17th June, and is expected railway accident had been got up for here or the 6th July.

The Hanan str. Birkenfels loft Tientsin on the roth Jones, and may be ex- Berted here on or about the 6th July, am The NY.K. st. Kirin Muru (Calent's Line) ft Calenita for this port vin poris on the 29th June, and is expected here on

the 18th July.

The NYK. str. Sanuki Mara (Amari can Line) loft Seattle for this port vis ports on the 17th June, and is exrooted bere on the 20th July.

The T.K.K. str. Kiyo Maru arrived at Honolulu from Manzanillo on the 11th June and is due in Hongkong on the 20th July.

The str. Glenroy parsed the Suez Canal on the 6th June. for Hongkong vie Straits.

The American and Manchurian Line stresas passed the Suez Canal on the 17th June, for Hongkong direct.

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But prolong this state and reaction sets psychic excitement have reached their in, the continuation of uncertainty, the height, and altogether she is fit to wed. little and big disappointments affect the nervous system and indirectly the physi- cal.

She Loss of sleep, poor and capricious appetite follow her anxious state. set. If from the start there is a decided is, in fact, weakening in her nervous strength and her psychical-balance is up

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What is called the stop movement, is the secret of all these trick films. A scone is taken, and while the lens is closed by the shutter the substitution and subse quent scene are arranged, and the camera uncertainly of the far-off wedding day goes on filming where it left off. the picture is shown the transition is so the strain becomes in time too great, and Disappointments in love neurasthenia. quick that the eye of the person looking it is only a matter of weeks when the at the picture cannot detect the break, and young woman merges into some form of when the background is a public street the

In this are never so fatal to a girl's health and happiness as prolonged and uncertain to- I have known many girls mystery seems all the greater.

who could throw off memories of early case two separate pictures are taken.

A few years ago there was a perfect gagements. rage for pictures which showed reverse

engagement. actions. Thus, instead of a horse trotting attachments and love, but seldom one who A marriage engagement naturally keeps furniture jumped from the street into a forward it appeared to go backwards, could, recover from the strain of a long window of a room, pedestrians walked

their riska into the hazardous and/or extra backwards, smoke from chimney's went a girl from that freedom to associate with into them instead of coming out of them, male acquaintance other girls have; men These soon failed to attract because it was know she is confined to certain social and Valuables are being landed and stored at HONGKONG DAILY PRESE Boon known that the effect was produced limitations, and so she is left alone.

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as to give the bride comfort and happi pess the matter is not go grave the pictures at the same rate as they were

waits and he works; contentment keep both physically and mentally well.

But daily contract under the uncer- irreparable barm to the girl; injury Fadala, from Rangoon, is due in Hong, puzzle the audience, but they are tainty of a prospective wedding day does

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