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Interesting Facts About Films
A NOISELESS artificial wind macliine was first used in Ramon Novarro's film In Gay Madrid.
Film studios use a special device to manufacture spiders' webs.
The food provided for film scenes is invariably real.
Tom Mix now has five horses, all of which are called " Tony."
One of the earliest animal films was a one-minute farce produced in 1907 by Biograph entitled Wanted, a Dog, in which the chief actor was supported by a cast of sixty dogs of different breeds.
Animals in Films
Leland Stanford, at one time Governor of California, was the first to prove, by the use of the camera, that a thoroughbred horse often has all four legs off the ground when in full gallop.
Silver Star, the famous equine star, earned ;^2oo,ooo in three years.
Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W, Griffith, used 3,000 horses during production, thus establishing a record which has never since been surpassed.
The greatest variety of animals assembled together for a film was obtained for the Metro-GoldwynMayer production Tarzan, the Ape Man. Among the animals used were a large herd of elephants, a dozen hippopotami, zebras, gnus, spotted hyenas, hundreds of monkeys, baboons, lions and leopards.
The Gay Lion Farm in California which has for years supplied lions for films was started in 1920 by Charles Gay, a Frenchman, and his English wife.
The first all-dog talkie was produced at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1929. It was entitled Hot Dogs with a hundred canines of all sizes and lands dressed as human beings. Human voices were synchronized with the action.
Ken Maynard's horse, Tarzan, is insured for ;£2,ooo.
When at the height of his popularity Rin Tin Tin earned ;^500 per week for his master.
Tom Mix gave ^-^ 12s. od. for his first horse, Tony, the sale being effected on September 4, 1916, when Tony was a raw, ungainly looking colt, but gave promise of becoming an unusually bright animal.
Colour Films
On February 26, 1908, the general public saw colour films for the first time at the Palace Theatre, London.
As a direct outcome of the above the Kinemacolour process for films was evolved and afterwards shown before a scientific gathering at the Royal SocietjT^ of Arts on December 9, 1908.
In 1920 Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus made the first Technicolor camera (the process still used in a number of Hollywood productions) after experiments lasting over a year and at a cost
of ;^28,000.
Beginning on February 22, 191 1. the Scala Theatre, London, showed films in Kinemacolour for t w c years — the longest run so far foi colour films at any single theatre in the world.
On the Continent colour films were shown for the first time when an exhibition was given on March 24, 1909, at the Institute of Civil Engineers in Paris.
America's first glimpse of colour films was in New York on December II, 1909.
In 192 1 J. Stuart Blackton produced The Gloi'iotts Adventure, the first picture play in colours to be made in England.
Though special light filters have been used for most films, some have been carefully coloured by hand. Two examples of the latter method are the fire scenes in Foolish Wives and the night scenes in the Garden of Gethsemane in The King of Kings.
For the Technicolor scenes in No, No. Nanette, a goose which appeared