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Hands of Hollywood
These stock "shots" are used in pictures for many reasons, such as : to save the cost of large crowds of extras, where it is not necessary to show the principals in the same scene; to save the cost of traveling to distant points for a single background "shot"; to save the cost of building miniatures, etc.
TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY
Trick photography, i. e., the photography of stunts, unusual feats, bizarre effects, etc., is accomplished by camera processes so involved and so complicated that only experienced cameramen can understand them. Therefore, to bring this subject within the understanding of an outsider, illustrations must be used, and technical language and detail will be avoided.
If the script calls for a scene in which a character sees the image of another character appearing before him, this scene is photographed by means of double exposure. The camera is focussed upon a piece of glass with a black cloth background. The image of the second charac' ter in the scene is thrown upon this glass by means of a mirror, and the cameraman photographs it. This scene is timed so that the appear' ance and disappearance of the image will correspond exactly with the action of the regular scene. The regular scene is "shot," and both scenes are developed. Then one print is placed on top of the other and rephotographed.
When the story calls for a scene of two men fighting upon the ledge of a building, ten or twenty storeys above a busy street, a replica of the ledge of the building is built in the studio. The characters per' form the action upon this ledge, fighting, slipping on and off the ledge several times, etc., and the cameraman photographs the action on the studio stage.
Then, the cameraman leaves the studio and takes his camera up to the roof or the ledge of the real building, corresponding to the one used in the studio. He takes "shots" of the traffic and of the crowds in the street below. Both films are put together and rephotographed. When such a scene is shown on the screen, the audience receives the
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