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on the word, and she caught it at the right moment. The result was a very clean job of work and the deception was uncannily convincing.
All the other double scenes in the film were done in the same way. Even when it was only a case of the two girls standing up and arguing with each other it was far easier to play the parts when every word was audible; and the finished picture was so much like actual reality that it was difficult to believe that the parts were both played by the same actress. I hope I have managed to make this clear. It is not easy to explain though it was quite easy to do.
This method of double exposure with divided frame is used by many other people, though I haven't heard of a phonograph being employed with it, but I thought I had 'invented' it when I was twelve years old and photographed a school-friend playing cards with himself in a garden. It showed no trace of a line between the two halves. Up till then the same thing had been done without a sliding shutter but with a black background instead, and that, of course, could not show any line for there was none to show. Whether I 'invented' it or not, it was a tremendous improvement on the black background method and is always used now when the effect is required. And of course, the already existing 'sound-track' is used to maintain synchronism instead of the more clumsy phonograph.
This trick must not be confused with the one used in photographing 'ghosts' like that of Hamlet's father. In that case there was no shutter before the lens: the whole scene was taken twice on the same film, with half the proper exposure each time. That is to say, suppose the estimated correct exposure was F/5.6, the scene would be taken at F/8, wound backwards and then taken again at F/8. The figure walked through one 'take,' but the other was of the background and rocks only. So these showed vaguely through the figure and made it appear partially transparent.
Anna the Adventuress was the second film of mine in which Ronald Colman had a part — a bigger one this time, and he made me still more sorry that he was so set upon going to America. In fact the whole cast was a very strong one and included, besides Colman, Alma Taylor, as both Anna and Annabel, James Carew, Gwynne Herbert, Jean Cadell, Christine Rayner and Gerald Ames.
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