"Well, I sure did get some fine pictures," remarked Russ, as he came
back to the others of the film company. "It will be something for our
newspaper service, all right."
"We'll send them back to New York from the next station," said Mr.
Pertell, "and wire that they're on the way. They can develop and
print them there."
In the first book of this series I have described the mechanical part
of moving pictures, how they are made and prepared for projection on
the screen. To briefly sum it up, I might say that the pictures, or
negatives, are taken on a continuous strip of celluloid film in a
specially prepared camera, which takes views at the rate of sixteen
per second. Then, after this long strip of negative is developed, a
positive, as it is called, is made, and this is run through the
projecting machine in the theatre. Thus, by means of powerful lenses,
and intense lights, the miniature pictures, less than an inch in
width, are enlarged to life size.
In order to make sure that the passengers should reach their
destinations the train that had been in the wreck was stopped at the
next important station. There a new baggage car was put on, and
another engine. Russ took advantage of the delay to send back, by
express, the film he had made of the collision, at the same time
telegraphing the manager of the film studio to expect the reel.
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