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...whom the expression "a fiend in human form" seemed justly applicable and not melodramatic. That man is the German motion picture director. Schultz** whom you describe in TIME, May 31, p. 14. The man who would spring a trap under two horses, send them crunching off a cliff to their death, and finally have motion pictures taken of their agony, is not a man?he is in truth a fiend. I have never written a letter to a magazine before, but I could not sleep last night, thinking of Schultz. I have had to write...
Herr Schwarz tried the effects of iron rods heated in a bonfire. He tried several other ingenious devices. The horses refused to plunge from the cliff. Herr Schwarz at length desisted for the day, returned home, reflected...
According to testimony adduced last week he soon ordered the construction of a platform on the edge of the cliff. After being stampeded with whips and rods the horses rushed out upon this platform, attempted to draw back at the last moment...
Witnesses testified that director Schwarz had recently been at work upon a sequence in which two horses were supposed to be stampeded over the edge of a cliff. Since the cliff selected had a 50-foot clear drop, the horses refused to leap, knowing they would be killed...
Herr Schwarz barked a few terse orders. Well schooled, his helpers lashed at the horses, succeeded in urging them to a wild dash toward the cliff's edge, where they halted, reared...