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318 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD single scene on the magic rope where Mr. Fairbanks on an unsupported rope deliberately turns down the top of the top of the rope showing that it is not hung by a wire. This effect has baffled scores of experts, and one man writing in a scientific monthly explained the trick as having been done by suspending the rope by a wire through the center of the rope and and two inches from the top. If this were done, it would have been impossible for Mr. Fairbanks to have turned down the top of the rope as he did.

Among the Monsters that the hero is called upon to fight, the Dragon is a animal, but the Bat and Spider are mechanical. The Spider is a wonderful example of the skill of motion picture technicians. It is built of wood, metal and wire, and eight hundred and forty-six different applications of leverage principles were necessary to give this mechanical spider a life-like propulsion in flying and crawling.

The undersea Realm of Glass was another idea that set the technical brains a mark that was hard to hit.

The design for this was painted by a famous artist and was a highly fanciful scene of lacey