"MOVUM* PITCHERS"
The Imitative Faculty of the Child
Written by 0. H. NELSON Produced by E. A. MARTIN
CAST OF CHARACTERS IN PROLOGUE
LEADING MAN Barney Purey CAIfEBA MAN
STAGE DIRECTOR Roy Watson
CHULDEEH'S PICTURE.
COLLY Harriett Notter LEADING MAN .
STAGE DIRECTOR Roy Clark
CAMERA MAN Patty Owen
BOWLER .
Geo. Anders
. .John Lancaster
. . . .Mrs. Dunbar
IN entertainment so popular and so universal as moving pictures it is bound to appeal through its mystery to the childish mind, and frequently its secrets are solved
by the youngsters with neatness and dispatch that astonishes the old timers who
have given great study and scientific care to evolution of the modern miracle known
as MOTOGRAPHY. The opening scene shows the boys looking and listening at a
knot-hole in the high fence surrounding the yard of a moving-picture plant. A flash
shows the making of a picture in the yard where the actors are real and the incidents
thrilling. The youngsters are bent upon taking a peep and catching the secret of success in a mere glance. Two boys fight for the knot-hole at the fence, while the girls
and others climb on the back of a pony and stand looking over into the arena of action.
The Wild West in the yard has grown so realistic that an awkward cowboy bangs
into the camera man and musses things up generally. The director is raving when
the camera man comes on the scene, re-threads his machine, showing the mechanism
of it.
Then the scene reverts to the open in the realm of childhood
and all the previous scenes are re-enacted by the children. "No
pent-up Utica is theirs," so they proceed to roam noisily and fiercely
over the village, frightening horses and raising much disturbance,
finally locating in front of the residence of a man who has the gout,
much to that gentleman's discomfiture. The whole affair is one of
those childish chapters that is filled to the brim with life and is
intensely amusing and interesting.
John
Lancaster
SELIG
