CHARACTERISTIC OF THE MALE 



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Richard E. FolUu 



A DRUMMINr, GROUSE 



The balance of the performance is described by the same author'^ as follows: 



"a quick stroke [was] given forward; the wings immediately recovered and another 

 stroke, a trifle quicker than the first, was succeeded by another still quicker, until the 

 wings vibrated too fast to be fnlbiwcd by the eye . . ." 



Regarding the initial thuni|)s. Allen (in Rent™) says: 



"he appears to throw his 'shoulders' back. This might give the impression that the 

 wings were struck behind the back, because the forward stroke of the wing follows so 

 instantaneously that the eye scarcely perceives it. and it is given with such force and the 

 wings come back to the normal ])iisition so quicklv that the entire action registers on onlv 

 one frame of the motion-picture film having an exposure of appruximately one-fiftieth 

 of a second." 



