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Because one of the most important uses of family pictures will be to preserve them as an interesting record to look at a number of rears later, it will be just as well to watch out for the hat styles. In other words, keep the girls and the women from wearing their hats any more than necessary, because nothing gives away five-year antiquity like a hat. Of course it's lots of sport to look over an old kodak album every once in a while and get a few laughs out of the styles which we wore ten years ago. But a little of that comedy goes a long way and, as a general rule, a few "old-hat pictures" will suffice in your movie library. Your wife and your daughters will thank you later for your advice today to leave their hats off.
It is interesting to note here that the forerunner of the modern movies were pictures of a horse in action, just the kind of pictures which the average amateur movie-maker will be likely to want to film. At Stanford University in 1871, when Governor Leland Stanford owned a large stock farm which had on it many blooded horses and a private race track, a most interesting experiment was conducted by Edward Muybridge. Desiring to check exactly the action, at different intervals, of a horse's feet when running, a row of 29 individual still cameras were mounted in a line beside the track and snapped in rapid succession as the horse passed the row of cameras and broke the threads attached to the shutter of each camera. The pictures were then developed and printed individually and run off in rapid succession, just as now the successive individual pictures or "frames" of a movie strip of film are run. This experiment is generally credited with being the first use of anything akin to our moving pictures of today.
And while you are taking the family groups you might just as well avoid one of the frequent oven-sights which has spoiled many a good kodak picture, and that is the foreshortening effect of a lens which makes a foot or hand sticking out in front of the subject loom up in the finished picture like a grotesque deformity. An illustration of this is seen in an otherwise4 attractive still. Scene 65, page 55, of a typical home