BIOSCOPE FAKES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 686, 15 July 1914, Page 2

BIOSCOPE FAKES.

The means by which" some of the apparently impossible effects are obtained in bioscope pictures are interesting, and in most cases they are > surprisingly simple. For instance, a popular photograph shows a burglar swarming up; the perpendicular side of a' house.: This is done by laying a •'property" wallj in reality a painted cloth, flat on the ground, and photographing it from above &s the actor crawls with every pretence of caution along it. Thus the requisite effect is shown 'ln the picture. •In another picture you will see a, fish flying out of a stream into an astonished angler's hands. ; .This is done simply by throwing the fish into the, water, and reversing the film. Thus the fish appears to be coming out instead of going in. It is by reversing the film that a wall is made to build itself, apparently. -What is actually done is to have a continuous photograph taken while somebody pokes the wall down from behind with a pole, brick by brick. Then when the film is reversed, the bricks appear to lump up one after the other. A motor-car running in a zig-rag along a braod road is done by photographing it with a camera on a swinging pedestal, so that it i taken from each side in tvtija.