AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

‘ WOLF FANGS ” FRIDAY

Five expert cameramen were sent to -Mount Maker National Park in Wash ington to film " Wolf Fangs.” box .Films’ second picture featuring: ‘ -, lii;:n dor.” the thoroughbred police dog tli u created sttcli a sensation in “ Wings o: tlie Storm ” last season. Profiting b •experience gained in the last picture Director Lew Seiler thought if host t take three extra cameramen along ii order to catch every phase of the tremendous battles which are among tin most thrilling parts of the story. ''Enliko a human, a dog gets the action host the first time rather than the second. as a usual thing.” Mr Seiler explained. “lie is more natural in his reactions and more spontaneous. For this reason, when a large number of lenses are trained on the action from all angles the best results will ho obtained in the first shot. Another tiling is that while a human can duplicate his actions for a close-up, tlit* average (log o’s not so inclined• arid'a good Ini of action is lost in a long shot because it • cannot lie duplicated in a closer shot.” ” Wolf Fangs ” is based on an original story ,by Elizabeth Pickett and Seton I.; M iller. The (human cast, in the picture is made up of Charles Morton, Caryl Lim-ujn, Frank Rice, and James Cordon. The picture will he at Lin* Princess Theatre on Fidav.

The first Imir-raising chapter of tienew serial, “Whispering Smith Rides,” which was shown hist week, was on titled •• Lawless Men.” Ir should have been titled “Too Late,” lor there seems to he little hope lor the pretty heroine. Rose lilossom. who was thrown -from the runaway buekbourd and dashed against a tree in spite of the phenomenal speed ol Wallace MacDonald, the dashing hero, on Isis doubly dashing steed. Never has there boon a movie serial in which the noble youth did not marry the pretty girl in ttie last reel, hut there always has to he a first time and this may he it. Pm! perhaps 'the miraculous hand ol I'atc has in some ! way intercepted death. The second episode (which will he shown on Friday at the Princess 'I lieutro will tell the tale.' This chapter is headedby the ominous title,; “ Caught in the ( rash,” which bodes ill for some luckless member of the east which includes, in addition to MacDonald and Ruse Blossom, J. ib; McGowan. Henry Hebert, W. M. McCormick, Nelson MacDowel i, Wilio Fung and Did; La Reno.