"It made a splash."
"So does a bullfrog," observed Paul.
"It does look rather alligatory in there," admitted Alice, as she stood
beside the young actor, and gazed into the sluggish stream.
"'Alligatory' is a new one," he remarked. "I wonder if alligators eat
alligator pears?"
"Probably," she laughingly agreed. "There, I guess they're ready for you,
Paul," for he was to take part in the first scene.
Miss Dixon, having had her difficulty straightened out, was prepared to
go on, and soon Russ was again at his usual occupation of turning the
handle of the moving picture camera.
For a description of how moving pictures are taken, developed, printed
and thrown on the screen in the theater by means of a projecting
machine, the reader is referred to the previous books of this series.
"That will do for this part of the drama," announced Mr. Pertell, when an
hour or more had been spent in taking various films. "We will now go
ashore. Put her over there," he called to the man in the pilot house on
deck, pointing to a place where, back of the moss-fringed row of trees,
could be seen some stately palms.
The rather clumsy boat turned slowly toward shore, and a little later had
"poked her nose," as Russ expressed it, against a luxuriant growth of
tropical vegetation, in the midst of some low palms and gigantic ferns.
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