Shaking Up Mother Earth (1922)

c 1922 Film demonstrating two “trick“ camera effects. L/S of a cliff crumbling and falling down - presumably after a dynamite explosion. Intertitle reads: “When our Cameraman found he’s had the wrong cliff blown away he was annoyed. So he put it back again - “ Film is reversed to show the cliff reforming - “He’s a marvel, that Cameraman.“ M/S of an Alsatian dog jumping over a fence. We see this again in slow motion. Captain Cameron Hurtzig is the owner of the dog. L/S of the dog running across marshy ground at great speed. We then see the dog jumping across a river in slow motion. Was a Pathe Pictorial item. FILM ID:862.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies