The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1914)

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MOTION I'ICTURE MAGAZISE the photographer <-<>uld take ;i pid are e action within the tank by placing i.is camera at the further end of the passageway, and ye1 exclude all the surroundings. The walls of the passage were covered with blankets. I,, , the light, so that the in terior <>!' the tank was the only part <it' tin place that was lighted •• Every <>ne was rushing about getting rocks, mOSS and weeds to place in the tank to make a background for the seen and to make it look like the bottom of the ocean. They carried to break the glass. He was told, but not convinced I fear, that all was well, and that it was perfectly safe. However, to prepare for misfortune, Hooper and Sullivan bound their arms and hands in bagging and took up their positions on each side of the camera, within the camera passageway. They did this so that if the tank should break they could help Brenon and Miss Kellerman to get out. Should the tank break, however, there was little chance of their ever getting out alive, for their bodies SCENE PROM NEPTUNE S DAUGHTER from the aquarium a large turtle, fish l kinds and colors, and dumped them into eighteen tons of water within tietank. The fish swam around >ng th. rocks, and, as one looked thru tin u'hiss. the scene represented tly what one would expeel to see ath the sea. Brenon was every instructing and u ' d finally finished and ••• the picture, he called to Kellerman and told her thai he ight there was b cl the i breaking, and e ; II b thai the dis lies would • additional pi would he driven by eighteen tons of water thru a hole of jagged Lrlass. " W last, the photographer took up his position with Sullivan and Hooper within the passage, and the canvas Mas nailed down behind them to keep out the light, Brenon and Miss Kellerman, in their costumes — which, by the way, were very scanty, exposing much of their naked bodies — prepared to climb the' ladder and gel into the tank." "Do you mean to say." cried George, "that those two people, knowing that the tank would probably break, and that they would be cut to death, dared deliberately to climb in there?"