AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 16 March 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KILL’S THEATRE.

Undoubtedly there are various wab pictures of sorts, but never in Talhape has there been shown a war film that takes the spectator so close to the firing line as “War As It Really is,’ ’that is being'shown at the King’s to-night. This picture was taken by Capt. D. Thompson, official photo-grapher-to the French armies and he had unique opportunities of filming unique events. His daring became the talk of the front lines, and many of the scenes are taken only a few feet from the German lines. Shells can be seen bursting only a short distance from the camera, blotting the view out with smoke. The famous “curtain or fire” can be seen driving thousands of Germans towards the French trenches to be made prisoners. The armoured train views are quite newq and are a tremendous revelation of range of devious mechanism employed in the titanic struggle. The heaviest . artillery struggle of Verdun is shown in vivid detail, and armoured canal boats at work. A battle in the clouds between a German and French airmen is one of the startling new scenes of “War as it Really is.” get this fight Capt Thompson took the place of the machine-gunner in a French aeroplane and went up several thousand feet. This left the » chine defenceless, and a Germß aeroplane is seen (and filmed) preaching wiSi its Iron Cross Another French aeroplane darted 9 and attacked and Capt. Thompson a» cended to 10,000 feet and photograph! ed the fight from above. It is a won-’ derful piece of daring and a splendid piece of photography. The other supporting pictures are of a very high standard, and in “The Mystery of the Leaping Fish” Douglas Fairbanks has a part in which he fairly revels. Another episode of the “Secret of the Submarine,” Gazette, etc., wil go towards making a really first-class programme.