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GOLFING For The M
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George Ade Says Films
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'E have taken many pictures of golfers," wrote George Ade, the humorist, to a friend, "and they are interested and often horrified to learn just how they swing the club. Also the victims of the close-ups usually say: T never knew I made such funny motions with my mouth.' '
For two years most of the humor that has been splashed about the Ade residence in Indiana has come, not from the fluent pen of Mr. Ade, but from the countless reels he has taken of his friends. All his life he has clung to the belief that people are funniest when they are not trying to be. Consequently he has used his motion-picture camera to snap pictures of his friends at times when they were unaware that they are being observed, much less photographed.
For a long time he tried to keep his hobby secret, for as soon as his friends realized that he was apt to appear on the scene from every wayside tee with his clicking cine-camera, they were ever on their guard. But by the time that they had been aroused to the imminent danger that lurked in his tiny instrument, the distorted physiognomies of most of them had been recorded for posterity.
At the same time that Mr. Ade was making use of his cinecamera merely for the purpose of entertainment he began to realize that pictures made on the athletic field might serve a more useful purpose. He conceived the idea that his faults — and those of his friends — might accurately be recorded on the golf course and then screened later in his home. There his friends gathered with him and they were able to see just what was wrong with their technique.
GEORGE ADE PLAYS SAFE. HE GIVES US A SPECIAL POSE TO SHOW THAT HE DOES NOT PLAY GOLF WITH HIS MOUTH.
Others beside Mr. Ade have taken advantage of this use of the cine-camera. From Detroit and other cities comes word that golfers and tennis players are photographing their technique and studying the films at home. The projector can be stopped at any point and carefully studied. Generally he who is conscious of only one fault discovers, when the film is projected, that there are other obstacles which he must overcome before the club championship is within his grasp.
Mr. Ade's practice of making films of his friends at play has been adopted in some cases by professional instructors intent
upon ferreting out the hidden faults that impeded their pupils. The films made in that manner have been of service, not only to the instructor, but to the pupil as well.
If the motive be simply one of entertainment, however, there are other fields fully as fertile as the golf course wherein one may catch his friends at their worst. A motion picture made of a kind friend untying a knotted piece of string, or of a fat friend endeavoring to lace a pair of high boots may readily furnish unlimited amusement in the long winter nights which are ahead.
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