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TWO inventions, developed in Germany, are about to revolutionize the making of motion pictures, not only abroad, but in America as well.
One, the Schuefftan process, has made possible the substitution of miniature sets for the huge structures that now have to be built, and enables a director to achieve fantastic and supernatural effects such as never could have been realized by any previously known technical methods.
The other process promises to substitute radiocontrolled automatons for ■ huge mobs of extras, with action so lifelike that they cannot be distinguished from great crowds of human beings.
The use of these two processes will have two important results. It will mean the saving of huge sums of money in making big spectacular pictures, and it will tend to remove all limitations which, in the past, have been placed upon the imagination of the scenario writer. Now, whatever the mind can conceive, the camera will be able to record for the screen.
Already, marvelous things have been done
The pictures on this page are from the German production, "Jealousy." The one above shoivs how the Schuefftan process replaces double exposure; the one below illustrates the use of a miniature set in connection with the actors. In this picture, though people appear to be pouring out of a huge structure, the building is, in fact, a small model.
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Technical inventions, devel enabling producers to create have never before
By John
along fantastic lines. "The Thief of Bagdad" and "The Lost World" have been perhaps the most notable efforts of that sort. But these pictures were made only by the expenditure of great sums of money, and despite the ingenuity of the technical efforts, there were moments in which the illusion was imperfect. Effects of that sort, it is believed, will be greatly improved by the new German inventions.
The Schuefftan process, though delicate and complicated in practice, is simple in principle. It consists of the use of a series of reflecting mirrors, by which the reflections of two or more objects, reduced or magnified to any size desired, may be photographed simultaneously onto a single film.
For instance, the rough walls of a huge courtyard are built in, with a flight of steps and a huge doorway, where the actors perform. Up on a platform, to the left of the camera, is a model of a castle, two or three feet high. By means of duplicate lenses and a mirror, the picture on the finder shows the castle in the courtyard magnified to the right proportions with the actors in front of it.
A night scene in "Jealousy," a new German production, showing a crowd leaving a theater, was made in this way, with a model a yard high, though people seem to be pouring out of the building !
In another scene, where a wife is tortured by the thought of her husband's unfaithfulness, the words of a book that she is reading are blurred by a love scene which she imagines her husband to be enacting with her rival. In the past, such scenes have been photographed separately, and later combined. This