Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...With the puerile squeamishness of most Americans you seem unable to appreciate that when director Schwarz of the German U.F.A. picture company, was presented with a script in which two horses were supposed to fall off a cliff and be killed, his artistic honesty allowed him no other course than to follow the script. Some of your readers sneered at me when I wrote you about von Richthofen?and you, of course, printed their sneers [TIME, Dec. 14, 28]. No German would have done that! We Germans?many of us at least?are strong enough to see the world...
...driving a Miller Special at an average speed of 94.63 miles an hour, crossed the 400-mile mark first, received $20,000 for winning the race, $9,600 more for covering the fastest lap, $10,000 more from accessory manufacturers. Second: Harry Hartz also in a Miller Special. Third: Cliff Woodbury in a Boyle Special...
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...