Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 122, 11 March 1911 — Page 2

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7here Rlem Walk Along the Ceiling Like Flies and Burglars Climb Straight Up the Side of a Mouse and Dishes Move

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EVERT day fifteen million people attend the movpicture shows throughout the country, but despite the evident popularity of the amusement, there are few who understand how the many mystifying effect are produced. Men walk on ceilings like flips, or run up the sides of houses In apparently entire disregard of the law of gravity. Homes, dogs, cats and other animals walk backwards or sideways In a manner quite contrary to their usual nature; coffee pots proceed to pour themselves without any visible Interference; automobiles dash through crowded streets In defiance of all speed laws; men and women fall down steep Inclines and over the edges of precipices and get up again, apparently none the worse for their experience; real trains collide, and real ships are wrecked without regard to the expense Involved and all for the modest price of a nickel or a dime. How Is It donet The answer may be told In two words: It Isn't. It's all make-believe. Real persons and animals pose for the picture, and the scenery is sometime genuine, but that Is all. The rest, for the most part. U Just make-believe, as a visit to the great atudlos where moving pictures are made would readily demonstrate. Some of the most amazing effects are easily accomplished by a tactful manipulation of the film; others require more elaborate preparations. To make an animal walk buckwa: .'c. a moving picture Is taken of It walking In tho usual manner, and to produce the desired effect the film H simply reversed. In the same way the reallv noronNhlng picture of brick apparently flying Into n lirtei; layer's hoi are obtained, the simple operation of a iiin !t:mplrK a hod load of bricks being sufficient to gfv the fantastic effect

when tht dim is reversed. Every out who has visited a moving picture exhibition Is familiar with tht ease with which moving picture heroes and heroines run nimbly tip the sides of houses when Eursued, and. no doubt, every one as wondered at one time or another how the feat Is accomplished. There are two ways of doing this: One Is to have the person posing for the picture drawn up the side of a real house by means of a rope, moving his feet all the time, s though he were walking, the rop bHng afterwards painted out on ih ill m ; the other and more tomnon way Is to mako the film in Bp-clnllv prepared studio. Oo the floor a canvas picture of the hou in qtiertlldn is spread and the rnmi pursued Just scrambles aloi: It on his hnnds and knees. T!i effect of inanimate objects moving themselves, such as coffee pom muring themselves, chairs ml Muillar objects Jumping up la the air. chimney pots falling off tnd flying back Into position, and typewriters working of their own secord. la produced by means of wires which are either too fine to appear In the picture, or, if they show, are readily painted out. RMron! rolllsfons are frequent en.n.ph. jne nuM marlne. to enable th niovliig-plcturo concerns to obtain r,o-'i:l,i pictures cf them, but th thi'ilir.i; pictures eceu on the moving picture screen are obtained In H r,ir .p3 realistic manner Miniatiim trains constructed nnrl ctnRcl with great Oddity to actual conditions, and

which run automatically, are used for the purpose, and serve very well. Sometimes an auto is made to collide at a crossing with a locomotive in a similar manner. The familiar film showing a painter stenciling a celling, to which he appears to be cllngl-g in a most unnatural manner while an assistant Is noldIng a pot of paint up to him, never fails fo create wonderment among the uninitiated, but is easily made. The pictures are taken in a make-believe room, the walls of which are painted upside down on a foursided screen, and the floor of which is painted white to resemble a celling. To a rafter across the top a man la suspended by his feet and holds an empty paint pot towards the floor, upon which the man posing as the painter kneels. The latter holds a stencil to the floor with one hand and with the other dips a brush In the paint pot which the suspended man holds towards him. After the pictures are taken the film is run off upside down and gives the

topsy-turvy effect desired. In a similar way the film which shows a man holding himself to the ceiling by the top of his head and the palms of bis hands is made, the man simply standing on his bad. To make the picture realistic, tables and chairs are attached to the makebelieve room and an elaborate chandelier is attached to the floor, so that when the film is reversed the room will appear to be fully furnished and equipped. In two out of three moving pictures there is a pursuit in which men, women and children are made

The Magic Pitcher the Cord and the Figure of the Man Holding It Are Painted Out of the Negative So That the Pitcher Apparently Moves Without Human Aid.

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How the Moving Picture' Studio is Arranged for Making a "Magnetic Ceiling" Film Turn the Picture Upside Down and See How Mystifying It Is When ftsversed and Thrown on the Screen.

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Quite Different From What You See on the Screen-the Burglar Crawls Along on a Painted Canvas Spread Flat on the Floor in Front of the Camera.

O to scamper over hill and dale at nVnnAMK 1 A 1 Jl -rwm rvnr.

1 ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 tr x i ti i spceu! uul pra uuu v. avua and automobiles tear pell-mell through

tne streets, knocking over fat policemen in their path, and everything moves with a Rustle and bustle that Is Uttle short of amazing. It Is needless to say that neither the animate nor the inanimate subjects of the pictures ever actually covered space at the rate indicated. When the pictures are taken, the persons posing for them may move as leisurely as they please, the effect of speed being produced by cutting out numerous sections of the film. The superimposed negative, a process familiar to every photographer, is often resorted to to produce weird effects. In this manner are made the films showing normal-sized men and women watching a contest between what appear to be men and women no bigger than a thumb. Two sets of pictures are taken. First the full-sized spectators are photographed while making the Gesticulations and motions to be expected of Interested spectators, and then another set of pictures of the contestants is made, the persons posing for t' em being stationed at such a distance from the moving picture machine that they come out very small in the pictures. It is then a comparatively simple matter to combine the two films. To construct a sky-scraper in the short space of a minute or two seems easy enough after observing the operation on the moving picture screen. The foundation is dug, the steel skeleton construction !s completed, the masonry and woodwork are added, the scaffolding Is removed and, lo and behold, the tenants are filing in and

cut, all within the space of time 't takes to run off the film! But to make the film Is much moro tedious operation than might be supposed Every day during the progress of the actual building of the structure the moving picture man must nhotograph the work, and wh ". the building is completed pictures of the tenants going In and out must be taken. Then the various films are united, and the effect when they are run off on the screen is little short of marvellous. The adventures of "Alice In Wonderland" have Bug-, gested some most fantastic ideas to the moving picture. , man. In one of the films Alice grows so large that she literally bursts through her house, her legs and arms -' bulging through the windows and walls. This effect was obtained by means of the multiple process, separate, normal-sized pictures of the house being t.ken first, and then pictures of Alice with her arms and legs enlarged to such an extent that they fairly filled the window and doors. When the two films are combined Alice is prodigious enough to suit the ' most fastidious. . ' Most of the moving picture concerns employ regular stoc': companies, the members of which receive high salaries. There are few moving pictures displayed In which some deception of this kind is not practised, but nobody minds it When we go to the land of make believe we are willing to be fooled. No effort is spared to produce weird effects of this kind. Skilled actors are employed and elaborate prop- . erties constructed to make the pictures successful, and the moving picture man is always looking for something novel and unique.

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Mplmtlu In hi. Trc UU on of t c.nfi"I to the VrWcaTlon of a V n , n,anner had falIen ali moment. Some trick of the candle-light heart of the house. The master heard It ntlrJ , .ub lt ),n, lnt guinea's worth of curiosuJ the tLT lnt ,?"e, f lntlmcy and as. perhaps, that, playing upon his vaguely, through the dulled confusion ot kl ubject. Impudent hum- ' o1? c,n !ta confidence. Belingham never remern- face, had startled her. But "Go along!" his senses; it mingled itself with that us" w the exact phra he ued; " "V ' r. a rJ.i h-3 rn -!nS ered to hav 8een hls wlfe 80 carrld commanded, almost pleasantly, for other noise within his own ears, marking adding. tt little indefinitely, -rack of tf "J"' " Ut f herse,f: her w" shining him. -We shall not be long. Or. rather out the minutes that were left to him beunaerupuluu knave hysterical :hnT frm .? TfJnt. Th bl man at th head of tha suppose you take Hartland with you. fore . Again the Fear ran through women:" ThiVit w in.io tablu matched It all sullenly from What d'you say, Hartland? Will you him; surely that must be what was hapiiU . rather niall and cloe-et, versation whlt-h hA eVviiv lrritatH beneath his lowered brows. Some- keep Mrs. Belingham company with your pening; he was ill. Perhaps, after all, glare J lmut Hereby out of Tils nuhed tae lord of the feast times he could hardly catch what they cigarette In the drawing-room? You Louise (the fool!) had been right when face, lie was, pt-rhapn. a trifle more Tho ,cpn, i were saying to each other, so com- don't mind? I've rather an important she had told him so often during the last poaltlve In hl denunciation since it be- merev tvnlcal nf th f,i,Z'. Taf." pletely by now had they shut him out little matter to settle before I Join you few weeks that lie was overworking, and urn vllnt I hat M ra. Hollneham waa ... . ' rt auuns uiuftn of tne.r conversation. I'erhaDS. too. you'll excuse a business man. I know." ought to take a rest.

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prepared to reKrd the matter with to-night there was strangely present an some credulity: that. IndeeJ. was tha element that puzzled even Belingham ebvlous point of his reference to hys- himself. In the midst of hia own anger terla. lie clearly expected it to silenca hs noticed It, and wondered, his wife and to put an end to the Natural enough that Louise should be. whole thin a a topic i of dinner table navo iike a fool and that lhls 8neerillK conversation; whlcJi. for tha time at jiartland ahould look contemptuous of

least. It UUl. hl,n roP telling her s.. There was noth- , h truth before' Mrs. UcllnK-ham sat faetnaj her hus- ing uncxpeotcd In all that; nothing, at fl7n of it

. '"- - . h i , least, to explain me nerceness 01 tne re- encd iOQk in her eyes, of the hostility absolutely motionless. He was trying idle curiosity

" " . ' , ir,,tf hn removed so that - ...v..... ....... mat n always reinemuereu to nave i ioon in His iiuna some pian mierwarus. , was. nau aireuuy i" He was tired, too, deadly tired; seemed feit against that puppy Hartland of by which he might make effective use Oddly but then all the swavlne to

And they thought to fool of this secret power that he held. It and fro of his mind was odd to-night

this story of a was difficult, though, the weariness these thoughts had already driven out

id a common inter- seemed to be creeping back again, and the anger that he had just now been

his brain, so that it was nourishing against his wife for her sup-

more impossible to poseu encouragement or Hartland. Per-

... . v..it.-in ffi n.l tin rtr.inlt mora wins time: lie could watcn now and Dlan. eon pent rat t his attention, lift hart, ton nans the nrorpss hart nnt reallv litn n

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he was growing a little deaf. No mat- .The guest murmured something polite; Suppose, even, he were in danger or ter; he could still watch without smiling, however, a more intimate an- dying not just yet, of course, but seeming to do so. swer to the look of inquiry that Mrs. soon. That was a queer thought; if it And slowly, as he sat there In Belingham had flashed upon him. Her were true, the obvious thing to do was to silence, the meaning of what he was husband saw the look. "You might do get up and ring tho bell; then people watching grew, and took possession a little ghost-raising," he called after would come, and doctors who would preof his mind. Of course! What kind them. Jocosely, as they left the room to- vent it happening yet he pat there with-

of a fool had he been not to realize Bether. His chuckle of laughter fol- out moving; almost without fear, after

That was the real lowed them through the closing door. the first moment; only vaguely uneasy.

gnlncance or it an, or mat quick- "it aioiie, ne sat tor a great wniie Ana tirea. Most or ail he wondered, witn

what Louisa would say

, was. had aire, ay oci-u u . i wai tlred too dcadly tlred; eeemed ,clt against that P th. silver and BU were mirrored In BuddellIy t(t have Rrown much mora eo erythln! And th Us piltfthed i suriaee. B,flc- tn,s ntcrmlnable meal began. He him him! with t A tall, thin woman sna was. witn , , : ,.).A,....i ino.n. tr v. A v. murt an a

flr hair and a raie pretty, dui usuauy going to be 111. But tho fear passed et la the humbug of the spiritualists, to be invading his brai somewhat expressionless, una rouno. (,hcro had bccn nd gIgn of it on hu iarge. Well, thank God he had found out in becoming more and mc perhaps, the r1011 IOP 1 , " YLi.I bullying face), and ho drank more wine time! He could watch now and plan, concentrate his attenti

He nai lorgotten nis ratigue in tne a confused and worrying Impression swut as u seemed. The clock in the

So long a time seemed to nave elapsed rxniciiiem ui ouu a. vui.-u5:i.. i.m uccii- mat time naa suaaeniy grown very mi- naa measurea out a run hour since

in.-a ha anoke that he was startled to nff neaviness mat naa neia nis ooay oji portant; as though something what? n was leu alone; half of another had

tied to w" xor ncttr,y ""ten Hartland replying to him in that low moments before seemed to have left were waiting to leap at him before Kne by before the lethargy Into which years. unrnncerned voice as though there had him. His pulse was beating tierce and he should be able to accomplish hia h had sunk began to be penetrated by a The only other member of the party. nV oorccptlble crowded silence be- steady, ho could hear the sound of It in revenge. new feeling, stranger than any yet. the guest, took no part In the discus. , " ".iJ ,n,t ',n,w,r his ears wine and rage ran in his blood Gradually, however, the sclieme of It was as though all sensation were Ion. lie "t bck. toyln gently with " , ' mc ,he other wa say- 1,ke Aames- Twenty times. In his lmag- thls came to him. plain and unmistak- ry gradually slipping away from hie clgrette, and glancing rrom no " c ' , which It Is almost lm- Nation, he rose up with a sudden oath. abie. After a little tlmj a little cun- Mr. Beiingham. little by little; leavto tha ether of his entertainers In a IC-V.ikw, to set a definite limit to belief. an1 dashed the life out of the guilty par ninjf tima of waiting to make certain at last the final consciousness of manner of half-humorous attention. harUntry there Is of course, to a cer- that smiled and whispered together across of hu victims he would creep quietly himself, the actual, unbodily self, alone which might possibly have been as- . extent, bat beyond that one leela the table. He knew tfceir quick terror. into the drawing room and surprise and utterly unsupported, in a kind of W.VA!uL tho crash of the blows, and iumeelf vie- them tos.ether. He would not go by anticipatory pause: a moment in

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shadowy background to the circle ot Mrs. BclinghanJ. he added, "as to feel hair; course, leUiarglc Cure, brooding out by the Frencn window beside him, curiously, when all at once he became

lia-ht cast by the canaies upon um toieraniy sure mat you yoursen wouiu . ' J . . , . . . . , t.hia. be what do they call It? medium ot After what might have been a long For a tlma no one spoke. Tho host unusual power." ?r uite a short time the watcher had lmed his Slaw and drank, not 111- -Why. that-she a!4 so. the woman. lost count of this Mrs. Belingham liltca nis " m"" ' ; ., i - (... T!innm h.i ,,i.t.n teemed suddenly to become conscious

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L.r.V raa tha elTact br no means ot with the words In what was almost or ner own conaucu ne stoppeu taiK,1 Ms woTds. TrcsTnTly cry of surprised Interest. Her whole Ing. and glanced at her husband with a SSw.v'.r. ti hlm.erf0rrJeturnerdr ?& "t'-P with sud-Ien vivacity, look of almost termed apology. He v. V.ni.rln.lv .Tk.,. ..,. "How curious you should think the met It smiling, subject, t"l'rJ".'3r- Jt",u,rUn: same!" she exclaimed. "No matter!" he was at pains to tellers. he Sl J. spiritualists. or -kui. l,.rl, Veen th Vnowlafltra out of his volear

table-turners, or whatever they call

m the whole crew should be clapped Into Jail If I had my way. Set of damned rogues, eh. Hartlandr

lie looked over at his guest, in

Not for many years. In It sounded harsh, as usual, but the

and so along the veranda, till he aware that the rhythmic beating no

reached those other windows, which longer sounded in his ears. would, he knew, be open, with the cur- "The clock must have stopped," he tains drawn. thought, quite clearly. At the same inBehlnd them, he could listen, and stant he heard his own name called, even watch all that weat on within. The sound of it, tenuous and remote, himself unobserved. yet with a strange quality of inIt was a grand scheme, that, grand sistence. seeVned at first to rise from If only he were strong enough to be quite nowhere in particular. He considered, sure of earning it out successfully, and listening intently; and. after a moment not faltering by the way. He moved his or two. it came again. This time Mr.

nana towara me wine again ai mis Belingham had no longer any doubt;

unconscious.

that

MMrard.!. Mr. ne'.tnirham nnt.l It. and heretic in these matters. I'va given . IT " ' . ' !.v. a " l" tone Qi n was

hi. dull ,,ntm.nt W hut h.said mvonlnl.n. Ufm't mind me!" . T JL . . V" - JT -v7 strange, urgent,

triumph: not so closely, though, as not nothing. He saw. too. the change that Louise had risen: Hartland leaned vtli.. X v,. Jl. T,i, command and entreaty such as he had

well-ordered household, had the words were unexpectedly mild, -you ,h K, ,hB fl,AJ. w,,r, ha 71 r . ."67

master's Imrlled Prohibition been so dls- and Hartland must accept me for a 1"LT " "ri; .,1,,.. " was t"." voice mat was cau

a blend of gentle

te ate the tremble of the hand opposite, had come suddenly Into his wife's aspect, n? to open the door for her. but the having nlaced t-e t-av at his elbow never known Louise to use before, or to mark how furtively it was with- All at once she looked the beautiful host did not move. He was no longer ... ti ifr. Belingham did not stay to notice

drawn from the table. Louise was uned woman that he had married fifteen years tired, but a queer feeling was upon his irstr ilka this nn or twice latelr this- He was ony aware that she had

sy now iw iii pviorc.

bias's reroro siranrr; dui ii auu always afTected her lik that. 11 felt. too. Instinctively, that Hartland had seen It also. Well, let him. A conceited sneering puppy I The amiability of Mr Celtncham'a mood can be t r -'l re" about not!ng.

bef ore. He wondered, with a kind ot him, as though it would have required and cherished a terrthed memory of the summoned him, and that he must reach anger, at this also, but decided to wait an imnossible effort to stir his limbs: ir r.t mtn Mm Rut ir T.eir,c. her. no matter how. at once.

before crushing her again. He was very so he sat where he was. watching and ham was not asleep, though the mistake H fcad forgotten everything; sust'.red. smiling. Was excusable. plcion and anger had fallen away But Hartland and Mrs. Belingham His wife seemed, however, to notice The room grew very quiet, so quiet from him like dreams It was his wife seemed no longer to observe his mood: something unusual besides the suavity that the muffled beat of the great clock whom he loved who called. The

iney were already talking together, or his speecn: ror she yti!l riesitated, jn the hall outside was te o-iv aa?iMe strangest change of all was In his

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the plans he had lately been forming unconsciously influenced him; but, full of this overmastering need that was upon him to obey the call, he had not been aware of it. So it was with a faint bewilderment that he found himself already standing just outside the open window of the room in which his wife was. separated from her only by the heavy curtains that were drawn across it. He had no memory of the way by which he had come, and now that he was there, some Impotence, inexplicable, held him for a moment hesitating unable to go forward. It was as though the actual command, felt rather than heard, had drawn 5iim toward Louise, as (he had this momentary idea, and smiled even then at the Incongruity of it) something infinitely light might be drawn upon a breath ot air and fall powerless until it la renewed. Then, clearer than before, but with now a tremble in it like fear, the call ame a third time. The sound of it flooded Mr. Belingham with a new strength, impelling lUm forward irresistibly. He parted the curtains and entered. After this everything that happened seemed to pass in one swirt instant. To his surprise, the room was almost in darkness, but by a faint radiance that came, he could not mark whence, he saw before him the figures of his wife and Hartland. They were seated together at a s:nail table, their hands just meeting upon the surface; the faces of both seemed to bear a strained, expectant look, though mingled in Hartland's with his usual air of blightly unreal amusement. So much he had already noticed, when something caused Louise to glance toward the window; and their eyes met. In that instant he saw them change and darken. She bent forward staring, with parted Hps, her face a white mask of terror. Then "Claude, Claude!" she was screaming the words had shrunk toward Hartland, and caught his arm convulsively in both of her hands, still keeping those agonized eyes on the face of Mr. Belingham. He himself thought that he knew quite well the reason of her fear. An hour ago. the cry. and her involuntary appeal to the other for protection, would have confirmed his own worst imaginings, and have lashed him to God knows what fury of rage. Now he wanted to show her that all this was changed. There was o feeling left in his heart but love, and a great, all-comprehending pity. He understood everything at last, and knew how little It all mattered save this. He longed to touch her, and reassure ... he made a slight movement forward. . . - But now Hartland had seen too. end leapt up. white-faced and staring like

cry. hoarse with alarm and astonishment "Louise do you see It?" The table fell crashing over on Us side, and Hartland and Mr. Belingham faced each other, Louise cowering between them. Even to the man, the husband knew then that he could feel no anger. Things seemed to have gone altogether beyond that If only he could make them understand, too. . He tried to speak, but could not. The world seemed to bo slipping away from him; the hysterical sobbing of the woman went through him with sensation like physical pain, rending his whole being. ... Hartland was still staring at him; anger seemed to be getting the bettor of hia fear; his eyes blazed so tht Mr. Belingham could not meet them. "I'm not afraid of you," he Bald, his voice strained and quick, "whatever you are. man or ghost When yon were alive you bullied her, drove her to mo It would be like you to come now, if that's what It means. There was silence; a great fear was breaking upon Mr. Belingham. The. room faded, grew misty. "See!" cried Hartland suddenly. He bent towards the woman, taking both her hands in his. "Louise. he said, speaking not to her but, ever her shoulder, to the other. "Look up and listen. I love you! I should never have told you. but for this. I say It now. so that That whatever It Is yonder, may bear. You're mine, now and always, in spite of him. ro you understand?" His voice grew steadier, more com. manding. "We have done no sin for which It can harm us we have ne reason to be afraid. There la nothing there, if we will it so; or. at most t Shadow, no more, that our own tolly has called up. Wo brought It here, un, both only half believed. Well now V . we can dlmlaa It, . Louise!" She heard, and sobbing, clans' ta lower00.'?.,,610'.";- Mo h liW. tU1 anl vfT deliberately kissed her on the lips. -That lV thi first time. he said, looking- beyond her toward the Shadow. m" A moment yet he could see It watching, knowing (but this he could not see) the truth, and tho Xull bitterness of its own punishment Then therewas nothing there. TTnderstandinaT had come at last for Mr. Belingham, too late. Darkness was all about him now. enveloping him. bearing- him away, out Into the night, to nothingness. It was the end. - And still, in one room of the boose he left two figures crouched together, the woman sobbing ever more slowly, the man staring with resolute eyes toward the parted curtains. In the empty dining room that which had once been Mr. Belingham sat at avBBaasssaaasssssaiBBBBBBVBHBSBBBSasBsaassBsjBfi

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