HORRORS ON THE BIOSCOPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8704, 18 August 1906, Page 4

HORRORS ON THE BIOSCOPE.

PICTURES THAT ARE NOT SHOWN IN PUBLIC. Before a small audience in London recently a priva-te exhibition was givon of films considered too realistic for the variety theatre. The pictures were marvellously clear in every instance; in fact, it would have been less painful if the details of a cock fight had not been so okaorly illustrated: The killing of an ox in a slaughteryard was another event illustrated, and then followed pictures of a huge tiger and a Spanish fighting bull in <a huge cage. Here the bull was pawing the ground, challenging the tiger, which lay on the ground pressed against the railings. Goaded from without,-* the tiger refused to face its enemy, but the end of the film, which illustrated tho bull killing the tiger, was missing. A dramatic Chinese incident, taken outside the walls of Mukden, showed the death procession of a Manohurian bandit sentenced to be decapitated. Placed kneeling on the ground, the bandit took a glance round, and as the executioner approhohed him with a short- curved sword he bent his head for the stroke. A moment afterwards a little group gathered round the lifelees body. The Spanish wedding bull-fight was also shown in .its entirety, with the slaughter of bulls and horses.