The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 634
Thearms must be held at equal distancesfrom the light, otherwise one willappear larger than the other. Step-ping over the lamp should be donequickly and with a single movement. All small properties are madeof pasteboard, and when signs areneeded they are cut out so that theletters appear in white… … Shadow Plays.—Fig. i. the shadow of a pasteboard housemay be thrown on the curtain, anda man rising slowly behind it mayappear to come out of the chimney(Fig. i). Or, in the same way, aman may be shown leaping into acrocodiles mouth, as in Fig. 2. As many of these ridiculous effects as expensive…
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