"The creating in the dinosaur was a major undertaking. It was ten feet higher and fifty feet long. The covering was made of heavy rubberized quilting. The head and feet have been created of specially ready papier mache. It weighed more than four,000 pounds and cost $35,000 to develop.

Monster Goes on Tour "This winter this synthetic dinosaur is going to start out on a theatrical tour, doing forty weeks around the Fanchon-Marco circuit. It can essentially walk down stage, hublot replica best choose up a lovely girl between its jaws, lift her to a height of fifteen feet, let her down and bow gracefully for the audience.

"In addition towards the elephants which we now have playing in the Follies, we've got just completed two far more which are going to appear in the new Schwab Mandel musical comedy on Broadway. Every single certainly one of these elephants, and also becoming worked by motors and gears, should be supplemented by a man who's secreted in each a single and who operates a variety of strings, causing them to sway and dance in unison, and wag their ears towards the time from the music.

A $30,000 Model "While that dinosaur took eighteen months to complete, we had one more longtime job on our hands when we set about constructing a lifelike mammoth . It took a year and $30,000 to make this.

"Its skin was made from the hide of more than 400 Mongolian goats. The sixteen electric motors which were inside it, created it breathe, roll its eyes, wiggle the ears, move its trunk and toss its head hublot replica . The dinosaur plus the mammoth, plus a model caveman thrown in for atmosphere, make very an exhibition.

"A brief time ago we installed these models within a Newark department shop and 400,000 men and women visited that establishment throughout the two weeks the animals have been there. This 1 set brings close to $150, 000 a year in rental from division shops or other individuals desiring it.

Models Produced for Talkies "As is apparent, we turn out everything from a spider to an elephant in the way of realistic models. Even the talkies come to us for their make-believe animals along with other exhibits. We've got just completed an enormous saxophone for Warner Brothers-Vita-phone. Musicians will emerge from several valves and keys of this gigantic instrument. It. is 21 feet high."

One from the largest jobs Messmore Damon have ever tackled was the exhibition of models depicting the history of American transportation. There have been ten miniature exhibits which traced the history of transportation from the days of the Indian drag up to the day of the initially airplane.

The figures had been one-third life-size scale, the ground and water effects have been of specially - prepared cloth, as well as the coaches, steamboats, locomotives, automobiles and airplanes were ideal functioning models. About 200 artists and mechanics have been employed 011 this undertaking which required $150,000 to complete.

"This model was so constructed that the eyes, head, neck, hips, belly, sides and tail moved with weird realism. This fellow is frequently taken on the road for department retailer attractions and even for some carnival, along with a lecturer goes along.

Dinosaur Brings Down Residence "The lecturer brings the property down simply because of the antics he is capable to command the dinosaur to carry out. It can take a handkerchief from the man's hand and location it in his pocket. It will roll its eyes and make all types of sounds and movements with its mouth, even though its physique is heaving as if in the act of breathing. At times it abruptly snaps its tail and lashes those nearby, causing very a hilari- ous furore because the spectators are frightened. watches hublot replica

"The lecturer pretends not to notice these surprise acts. They are executed by the man secreted within the hut in the switchboard.