MOVING PICTURES TAKES AT NIGHT.

Northern Advocate, 5 September 1913, Page 3

MOVING PICTURES TAKES AT NIGHT.

Taking moving pictures! at might would seem almost impossible, especially would it seem impossible to the skilled photographer, for every photographer knows that after dark ;i picture has to be made by flashlight, and flashlight is just what its name indicates, a great but sudden flash of light.

To take moving pictures there must be a continual light and how to secure a sustained light of sufficient brightness to take a movingpicture, that is, an extremely longtime exposure while the film" is being run through the camera before the open shutter of the lens, is a problem.

This has been clone, novvever, according to "The Inventing Age," which says that it came about through a hustling committee in Kansas City which desired to advertise their city thoroughly, and wanted to add to their municipal fame by perpetuating a mammoth night parade to be held there during a certain festival.

A platform twenty feet high was erected on one side of the street, through which the parade was to pass. On this were strung sixty arc .lamps in two rows, backed by a monster sheet tin reflector, seventy feet long and six feet high. On the opposite side of the street was another embankment of light almost as powerful, so that for a distance of about 1.00 feet the street was brilliantly illuminated. , The machines were started when the parade began to pass, and a film GOO feet long was made, showing every detail. Snapshots taken by private cameras were found to be as good as similar pictures made in daylight.