- Title: F-3602
- Summary: CAMERA MAGIC: CAMERA TRICKS. GIRL DISAPPEARS & REAPPEARS. BOY IS CONFUSED. TRIES TO HUG GIRL. FOOD APPEARS IN HIS HANDS. MIRROR PUT ONTO FRAME OF CAMERA. WATER APPEARS. GIRLS DIVE OFF DIVING BOARD. BEARDED WOMAN. OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. EXPOSING MIRROR TRICK. WOMAN ON BEACH HOLDS MAN IN HER HAND. PERSPECTIVE. HEADLESS BODY ON BEACH. HOLDS WOMAN HEAD. FLY ON HER FACE. WOMAN BURIED IN SAND. TORPEDO BOOBS. CONTORTIONIST. GIRL WITH FEET BEHIND HER HEAD. ONE GIRL LIES ON TOP OF THE OTHER. MAN CLIMBS UP SIDE OF BUILDING, HUMAN FLY - A LA BATMAN. TILTED CAMERA. FAT MAN WALKS DOWN STREET. WALKS BEHIND TREE, WOMEN APPEAR OUT THE OTHER SIDE. MATTING OUT PART OF PICTURES. SHOWS HOW CAMERA TRICKS ARE DONE. MARCHING MEN GOOSE-STEPPING. REVERSE & FORWARD SO THEY MOVE BACK & FORTH. HORSE RACE. OPTICAL PRINTING. MEN THROW FISH INTO WATER. RUN BACKWARD LOOKS LIKE FISH JUMP INTO BOAT. AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE. JEEP CRASHES IN DIRT. MAN WALKS BICYCLE INTO ROAD, HIT BY CAR. CLOWN EATS TIRED WOMAN. CINDERELLA WIPES HER HEAD. CLEANING POTS & PANS, FAIRY GODMOTHER IS DISSOLVED IN CINDERELLA APPEARS IN BEAUTIFUL GOWN. BATON TWIRLER IN LIMBO. DRUM MAJORETTE IS MULTIPLIED. DONE WITH PRISM. MULTIPLE IMAGES. DOZENS OF IMPOSSIBLE CAMERA FEATS ARE SHOWN
- Description:01:14:20 - ANIMATED TITLE SEQUENCE 01:14:24 - SEQUENCE DEMONSTRATING CAMERA TRICKS. BOY TRIES TO KISS GIRL, SHE KEEPS DISAPPEARING AND REAPPEARING. WHAT A TEASE! 01:14:34 - BOY WEARS FRATERNITY / COLLEGE SWEATER. CU EXPRESSION OF SHOCK / SURPRISE. GREAT GOOFY / FUNNY SHOT. 01:14:44 - CU GIRL SMILING, DISAPPEARING AND REAPPEARING. 01:14:54 - BOY GRABS / HUGS GIRL, SHE DISAPPEARS AGAIN. HE HOLDS HEAD IN EXASPERATION. FOOD APPEARS IN HIS HAND. HE EATS IT. 01:15:04 - A DRINK APPEARS IN COLLEGE BOY'S HAND. HE TAKES A SIP, BEGINS TO BLINK IN AND OUT OF SHOT. WACKY. 01:15:14 - CU OLD FASHIONED HOME MOVIE CAMERA. HANDS ATTACH SMALL MIRROR. 01:15:24 - SHOT OF LAWN WITH PALM TREES. CAMERA TRICK CREATES ILLUSION OF WATER REFLECTING TREES. 01:15:34 - WOMEN IN BATHING SUITS POSE FOR CAMERA, JUMP OFF DIVING BOARD. ILLUSION OF WATER CREATED WITH MIRROR. 01:15:54 - SAME MIRROR DEVICE CREATES WEIRD EFFECT OF TOP OF WOMAN'S HEAD REFLECTED ACROSS BOTTOM OF FACE. BEARDED LADY. 01:16:04 - SAME MIRROR TECHNIQUE USED TO CREATE ILLUSION OF WOMAN SITTING BY WATER THROWING SOMETHING INTO WATER. CAMERA TILTS UP TO REVEAL IT AS A TRICK. 01:16:14 - SCENE ON BEACH UTILIZING TRICK OF FORCED PERSPECTIVE. MAN APPEARS TO STAND ON WOMAN'S OPEN HAND. THEY KISS. 01:16:29 - CAMERA TRICK CREATES ILLUSION THAT WOMAN LAYING ON BEACH IS HOLDING HER OWN HEAD. CU SAME. WOMAN'S FACE TWITCHES AS FLY CRAWLS ON IT. SHE WINKS AND SMILES. 01:16:44 - HEAD TURNS TO LOOK AT BODY. CAMERA FROM REVERSE ANGLE REVEALS TRICK: HEAD BELONGING TO BODY IS IN HOLE, BODY BELONGING TO HEAD IS BURIED. GIRL LIFTS HER HEAD, SITS UP. 01:16:59 - GIRL WHO IS BURIED IN SAND GETS UP. 01:17:09 - WOMEN ARE TWINS. THEY SMILE, POSE. CAMERA TRICK WHEREIN WOMAN IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CONTORTIONIST WITH HER LEGS BENT OVER HER HEAD. 01:17:24 - GIRL WHO IS REALLY ATTACHED TO THOSE LEGS SITS UP. TRICK IS REVEALED, SHOWING GIRL'S TWIN LYING ON HER BACK. 01:17:39 - SCENE OF MAN APPARENTLY CLIMBING UP SIDE OF BUILDING. HUMAN FLY, ALA SPIDERMAN. 01:17:54 - CAMERA TRICK REVEALED, SHOWING MAN CLIMBING ALONG TOP OF HORIZONTAL WALL. CAMERA TILTS, GIVING ILLUSION F MAN WALKING VERTICALLY UP WALL. 01:18:04 - SCENE OF FAT MAN WALKING BEHIND TRUNK OF PALM TREE, ONLY TO DISAPPEAR AHD HAVE FOUR WOMEN WALK OUT, FINALLY FOLLOWED BY HIM. HE TAKES OFF HAT, SHRUGS. 01:18:29 - ILLUSION KNOWN AS THE SPLIT STAGE. TRICK REVEALED: SHOWS HOW HALF THE PICTURE IS MATTED OUT (APPEARING BLACK OR BLANK). MAN WALKS INTO MATTED OUT AREA OF SHOT. 01:18:39 - OTHER SIDE OF SHOT IS MATTED OUT AS WOMEN WALK PAST TREE. MATTED AREA IS FADED IN, REVEALING ACTORS WALKING PAST TREE, INTO SHOT 01:18:54 - SOLDIERS GOOSE-STEPPING, MARCHING IN FORMATION. FILM WOUND BACKWARDS MAKES THEM APPEAR TO MARCH BACKWARDS. ZANY! SAME TRICK DONE WITH LARGE BIRD (PELICAN?). 01:19:04 - SOLDIERS AND BIRD FOOTAGE SPED UP, BACKWARDS 01:19:14 - FOOTAGE OF HORSE RACE RUN BACK AND FORTH. CAMERA TRICK DONE WITH OPTICAL PRINTER. 01:19:39 - SCENE OF FISHERMAN IN SMALL BOAT THROWING FISH FROM BUCKETS INTO WATER. FISH APPEAR TO JUMP BACK INTO THEIR HANDS AND INTO BASKETS, BECAUSE CAMERA SHOT SCENE UPSIDE DOWN. 01:20:04 - SOLDIERS IN AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE DRIVING / DIVING INTO WATER. FILM RUN FAST MOTION, BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. 01:20:19 - SAME TRICKS PERFORMED WITH FOOTAGE OF SOLDIER DRIVING JEEP. 01:20:34 - SCENE OF MAN WALKING BICYCLE BEING HIT BY CAR AND THROWN BY IMPACT. 01:20:44 - TRICK REVEALED: STAGED IN REVERSE, FILMED WITH UPSIDE DOWN CAMERA. 01:20:54 - ANIMATED SCENE OF CIRCUS CLOWN (HOBO) APPEARING ON CAMERA PIECE BY PIECE, THEN TAKING BITE OF FOOD. 01:21:04 - CAMERA DOLLIES BACK FROM SHOT OF POOR, DIRTY CINDERELLA POLISHING PITCHER. FAIRY TALE 01:21:29 - FAIRY GODMOTHER FADES / DISSOLVES INTO SHOT. SHE REMAINS TRANSPARENT, WAVES HER WAND. 01:21:44 - A BEAUTIFUL GOWN APPEARS ON CINDERELLA. TRICK ACHIEVED WITH A SERIES OF DOUBLE EXPOSURES. 01:21:59 - CAMERA TRICK, ILLUSION. FANTASY SEQUENCE. SPECIAL EFFECTS. CAMERA CLOSES IN ON SMILING CINDERELLA 01:22:09 - MAJORETTE TWIRLING BATON AGAINST COMPLETELY BLACK BACKGROUND. SHE THROWS BATON, CATCHES IT. HER IMAGE IS MULTIPLIED. 01:22:29 - MULTIPLE IMAGES OF BATON TWIRLING. MAJORETTE SPIN AROUND SCREEN. KALEIDOSCOPE. TRACK ACHIEVED WITH ADVANCED OPTICAL PRINTING. PRISM IN FRONT OF LENS 01:22:34 - SAME IMAGE OF MAJORETTE MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE, THEN GRADUALLY BROUGHT BACK TO JUST ONE GIRL 01:23:04 - ROWS OF MULTIPLE IMAGES OF MAJORETTE SLIDE ACROSS OPPOSITE SIDES OF SCREEN 01:23:20 - REEL ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1946
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-3602