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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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