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HANDBOOK OF K I N E M ATOGR AP H Y. 87 MAGICAL METAMORPHOSES. As an instance of this sort of trick work may be cited the film (t Lord. Feathertop." Here a beautiful young lady is in the act of being married to a very fine young fellow, when the latter changes in a flash to a giant-sized dutch doll. The effect is really the com- bination of one of the already described " disappearance " effects with an " appearance." The young fellow taking the part of the bridegroom steps out of the picture, and the monster dutch doll is placed in position during the one interval in which the camera turning has been stopped. FATAL AND COMIC ACCIDENTS. Although neither of these usually figure before the public as trick Fig. 68.—The dancing midget. This effect depends simply upon an observer's comparative inability to perceive distance except by relation to intermediate objects. The camera D is set to photo- graph the table A, which stands before the partition G. In this partition is cut an aperture C, behind which and at a suitably great distance, is the living model E. The background F is of the same tint as G, so that the want of continuity is not easily apparent. When carefully planned out, the effect may be as though a figure much smaller than life-size was situate at B. The lens of the camera must be greatly stopped down. effects they would both be out of the question save for the technique of the magical metamorphosis given above. The fatal accident occurs more and more often in modern dramatic films. Perhaps it is a distracted young girl who determines to throw herself out of a top floor window, and does so. At least the audience sees her climb to the window ledge, give a last convulsive shudder, and pitch forward and down past storey after storey, until the body flashes out of view at the bottom edge of the picture mask. Or, again, it may be a comic accident, such as the submerging of a couple of tramps by a cartload of shingle, which submersion would hardly have been good for the actors taking the parts in question had they really remained to bear the brunt of the accident. Sometimes even a steam roller is requisitioned to go right over a man in a comedy film, in which case he invariably gets up again and resumes normal activity in a surprisingly