HUTT VALLEY INDEPENDENT. AND Upper Hutt Advertiser. SATURDAY, 30 JAN'Y, 1915 AMUSEMENTS. PEOPLE'S PICTURE "The Wreck."

Hutt Valley Independent, Volume V, Issue 211, 30 January 1915, Page 1

HUTT VALLEY INDEPENDENT. AND Upper Hutt Advertiser.

SATURDAY, 30 JAN'Y, 1915 AMUSEMENTS. PEOPLE'S PICTURE "The Wreck."

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AT REOOM HALL TO-DAY, To 1 uy up two powerful locoa train of carriages and «■ considerable stretch of permanent way simply to produce one scene in a photo-play looks like'going in big licks", yet it is vliat the Vitagraph Company (id in order to obtain a genuine head-on" collision for the star crania entitled "The Wreck" which is being screened at the Record Hall tonight. The collision scene alone cost the Vitagraph Company over £IO,OOO. lr\ its criticism of the film the Kincmatograph Record says "The question asked by those who have not had an opportunity of seeing the subject is always the same—ls the railway nnash as big a sensation as it las been stated to be ? It is nf course, upon the collision scene that the success or failure of ,'The W reck" hangs and the best way to reply to the question we have repeated is to state right away exactly what the big scene shows and the impression it made on us when we saw it in the Vitagraph (private) theatre recently."

"In the first case the final irill of the crash of the two 10-3inotives 3inotives is most cleverly led p to. One bees a runaway enine steam out of the yard after ;s engineer has carelessly lett ie footplate. One sees its unontrolled course over the track brough stations where its apearance mids the white-faced eiegraphists flying to their intri njtiits to send warnings .long the route; over points phere the efforts of signalmen o side-track it are too J ate by a raction of a second. One also oilows the course of the express rain proceeding towards the unaway on the same metals; iees the drunken engineer; his iblivioivto warning signals and renzied shouts from the stations he flashes through; his ittack upon his fireman. The scene shows now the runaway, jver gaining momentum, and now the footplate of the express engine, with the two men locked n death grips, while the calamity which is to hurl them both into eternity comes nearer with wery second. "Finally, one has the stretch rf track with the express and the runaway approaching from opposite directions, and the highest compliment one can pay to the art Mth which the preceding scenes have been presented is to say that the comparatively few s seconds which elapse before the engines clash are filled for the onlooker with something of the horror stricken apprehension which one imagines the helpless spectators of a real catastrophe to experience. * * the express engine rearing right up metals to be instantaneously piled with the wreckage of the carriages behind, which, their momentum checked in a second, splinter like match boxes as they meet the wreckage of the two engines Still more dramatic is the explosion of the boiler of the runaway at the very moment of impact." The foregoing is only a brief selection from a two-column small-type critique of the film. Come and judge for yourself tonight at the Record Hall. You won't get anohter opportunity of seeing an actual collision and a boiler explosion. Fragments actually fell around the Vitagraph camera men, as the boiler explosion being unexpected was not provided against in the.arrangements. Don't Miss Seeing it. V