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An exact reproduction, in miniature, of a large hotel now 

 being built in New York. The windows are of real glass 



A Miniature Hotel With Two 

 Thousand Rooms 



THE picture above shows a remark- 

 able model of a gigantic hotel which 

 is planned for New York City. The 

 model is a faithful representation of the 

 building as it will appear. Every little 

 detail of ornamentation, coloring, light- 

 ing effects and general construc- 

 tion has been faithfully por- 

 trayed. The result is a little 

 palace that might accommodate 

 a whole community of Peter 

 Pans. The model was con- 

 structed from the plans of the 

 architect who designed the great 

 hotel that is to be. The ma- 

 terial used was wood pulp 

 stained to imitate perfectly the 

 stone which will be used for the 

 new building. The windows of 

 the miniature are of glass. 



The real hotel when finished 

 will be enormous. It will have 

 a ballroom which will ac- 

 commodate three thousand 

 dancers. There will be two 

 thousand guest rooms in the 

 building and preparations 

 are being made to serve more 

 than a million people during 

 the first year it is open. 



Popular Science Monthly 



A Motion Picture Camera 

 That Stands on One Leg 



ARTHUR SELDENof Roch- 

 . ester, N. Y., intends to 

 employ a single swinging- sup- 

 port in place of the stationary 

 tripod of a motion picture cam- 

 era to facilitate the following of 

 moving objects and a crank at- 

 tached to the operator's belt to 

 minimize vibration by indirect 

 driving. No provision is made 

 for focusing. 



In motion picture work, lenses 

 of universal focus are not 'em- 

 ployed. An object moving to 

 or from the lens within certain 

 distances will necessitate re- 

 focusing. At the same time 

 the crank must be kept in mo- 

 tion without the slightest varia- 

 tion in speed. The photog- 

 rapher using a camera with a 

 single swinging support would 

 find both his hands well em- 

 ployed. Focusing of- the lens when the 

 necessity arose would be impossible. It is 

 doubtful, too, whether a smooth, even turn 

 could be made with a crank attached to the 

 flexible body of a man. 



Although in this case the inventor has 

 given most of his atten- 



Fiexible .shaft 1 



Crank attached 

 to belt 



The photographer using a camera 

 with a single swinging support, 

 such as the one shown, would find 

 both his hands well employed 



tion to a more accurate 

 centering of an object in 

 motion, it should be re- 

 membered that this fea- 

 ture, with rare exception, 

 is not desirable in motion 

 picture work. An ob- 

 ject in motion which is 

 continually photographed 

 in or near the center of 

 the film in spite of its 

 movements will, when 

 projected on the screen, 

 dazzle the eyes of specta- 

 tors, because the back- 

 ground, which is greater 

 in area, will assume in an 

 opposite direction the 

 identical motion which 

 has been arrested in 

 ^ the object. At best, 

 the majority of such 

 pictures are some- 

 what confusing and 

 consequently seldom 

 used. 



