UNREHEARSED ACT IN COMEDY FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18644, 22 December 1928, Page 5

UNREHEARSED ACT IN COMEDY FILM.

“DASHING STEED” GETS LOOSE AT WRONG CUE. There was much ado in the northeastern part of the Square to-day, when cinematograph shots were taken by Mr Dugall Hayward for reproduction in his comedy film, “ A Daughter of Christchurch.” Pretty girls, debonair young men, extravagantly “ done up ” for the occasion, and other harder-looking citizens, gathered on the balcony of Warner’s Hotel to be “ shot.” A fairly goodlooking sample of horseflesh waited underneath, tied to a post of the verandah. When the camera and its followers emerged on to the street the horse objected to being “shot.” It mustered up some alarm at a motor vehicle carrying a miniature crane, and in pulling back broke the bridle. The animal would have nothing to do with the man who in the film was the successful political candidate, and who had addressed his electors —which in this case was only the horse—from the balcony. It performed a modified form of Charleston as the new member of Parliament approached with coaxing hand and cooing voice. Finally, hemmed in on two sides, the animal became quieter as the pieces of the bridle were joined together again over its head. It sank again into a dreamy in-* trospection, and even the drawing up of an old-time four-wheeler alongside the motor vehicle failed to arouse its interest in the progress of the age.