ant.

"Get every inch of that. It's the best scene we've had yet, though it
was a close call!" telephoned Mr. Pertell to the operator on the side of
the hill. "Film every inch of it!"

"All right! I'm getting it," answered the camera man and he went on
grinding away at his crank.

The explosion of the shell had, for the moment, stopped the advance of
Paul and his men up the hill, but this momentary halt only made it look
more realistic--as though they really feared they were in danger, as
indeed they had been. Now the director called:

"It's all right, Paul! Go ahead! Keep on just as if that was part of the
show."

"It was a lively part all right!" and Paul laughed grimly. "Come on,
boys!"

And the charge was resumed.

Back of the dismantled battery, whence they had presumably been driven
by the fire from the big gun, the Confederates were massed. They were
waiting for Paul's charge, and they, too, had been a little surprised by
the unexpected firing of the shell.

But now, in response to a signal on the field telephone, they prepared
to resist the assault.

"Come on, boys! Beat the Yankees back!" was the battle cry that would be
flashed on the screen.

Then came the fierce struggle, and it was nearly as fierce as it was
indicated in the pictures. Real blows were given, and more than one man
went down harder than he had expected to. There were duels with clubbed
rifles, and fencing combats with swords, though, of course, the
participants took care not to cut one another.

In spite of this, several received minor hurts. But this result only
added to the effectiveness of the scene, though it was painful. But in
providing realism for motion pictures more than one conscientious player
has been injured, and not a few have lost their lives. It is devotion of
no small sort to their profession.

Back and forth surged the fight, sometimes Paul's men giving way, and
again driving the Confederates back from the crest of the hill. Small
detachments here and there fired volleys of blank cartridges from their
rifles, but there was not as much of this for the close-up pictures as
there had been for the larger battle scenes. For while smoke blowing
over a big field on which hundreds of men and horses are massed makes a
picture effective, if seen at too close range it hides the details of
the fighting.

And Mr. Pertell wanted the details to come out in this close-up scene.

Back and forth surged the fight until it had