MOVING PICTURE TRAGEDY.
Albert Brighton, 3b years old, an actor, was drowned in New York last month while representing the part of a gallant rescuer diving into the water to save the life of the lovely heroine. The representation was being given to provide films for a moving picture show. Brighton had previously tested the' pond in which the tragedy occurred, and seemed satisfied that there was a sufficient depth, but when he dived from a boat his head stuck in a mudbank, and the heroine, when she perceived that her rescuer did not rise again saved her own life by swimming ashore. Sixty people seated in a country restaurant witnessed the accident, and help war soon forthcoming, but four hours elapsed Before the body was recovered. Ail the time the film• ran on until the roll was exhausted, .aml pictures of various men diving for the -unfortunate actor wore vividly reproduced. !
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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152MOVING PICTURE TRAGEDY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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