ANIMALS IN THE TALKIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 15

ANIMALS IN THE TALKIES

MAKING A DOG BARK Animals are still used frequently on the screen ,but talking pictures have completely revolutionised the methods of training them. In the days of the silent pictures, the trainer directed an animal by voice. The microphones do not permit that method and new systems have necessarily been devised. The following is an illustratoin of the methods now employed at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. During the filming of the Paramount all-talkie, ‘lllusion,” starring Charles Rogers, a dog was required which was to bark in the middle of an important scene. The scene started, and the dog lay quietly in the lap of June Collyer, one of the featured players in the cast. At the desired moment, the trainer, standing behind the camera, lifted a. toy balloon and waved it at the dog; through months of meticulous training, the dog had been taught to hate tho sight of a ballon, and when it was produced, he barked furiously. PIRATES OF THE SPANISH MAIN Dupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland, A 1 St. John and director Henry King are in Florida, for location scenes of the all-talking picturisation of ‘ Out of the iNight.” That is the Rida Johnson Young novel about a girl who is descended, from Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate, and whose melodramatic adventures with knife-tossing gentry make for plenty of oral and visual fireworks. Dupe Velez now will be seen in a role even more spirited than anything she has had: the boy friends believe that a cut on the wrist is very nice, but a slit in the throat lasts forever.