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Things in the Movies
Fearless Finley Henderson did this stunt {or a Bobby Vernon comedy soon to be released. Two telegraph poles were implanted in the ground near the shack thru which an airplane was to crash. The poles were close enough together to tear the wings from the plane when Henderson dove between them, thus permitting the fuselage of the plane to shoot like a bullet into a lightly built frame house. By shearing off the wings a fraction of a second before the crash, the plane was prevented from careening in any direction when it hit. The illustration shows the poles standing, but in reality they crashed to the ground with the wings. For this stunt Henderson clothed himself in a crash helmet, a baseball mask, a breast protector and shin guards. He emerged without the slightest bruise
In "Flesh and the Devil," Clarence Brown made what is known as a "running shot" of John Gilbert on horseback. A "running shot" is one that follows beside the horse and rider as they dash over the prairies. Now, the general impression is that this effect was obtained by following the horse in an automobile with a camera. However, Clarence Brown devised a different method. He set up his camera and had Gilbert ride the horse in a circle around it, the cameraman keeping his camera focused on the object. The result gives the effect of Gilbert riding in a straight line across the plains
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One of the most thrilling scenes ever photographed was made by Maurice Stiller, the Swedish director. A team of horses attached to a sleigh carrying a party of actors was supposed to drop thru the ice in a lake. A large hole was cut in the heavy ice and a platform erected beneath to prevent the sleigh from sinking to the bottom of the lake. When this work was finished, a thin layer of ice froze over the hole during the night and a light layer of snow concealed the work. When the sleigh with its occupants hit the weak spot in the ice, it plunged thru onto the platform, thus giving the proper effect for the scene without any serious mishap to the actors or horses
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