Filmmakers Created Fake Newsreels in the 1920s

Illustration in a 1923 magazine showing how newsreel footage of an earthquake in Japan was fakedIllustration: Science and Invention/Novak Archive
A horrifying magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Japan on September 1, 1923, killing over 140,000 people. Illustration: Illustration: Science and Invention/Novak Archive
The December 1923 issue of Science and Invention magazine included an illustrated spread of filmmakers from Bray Studios, founded circa 1914, and explained how they cut up real photos from the disaster in Japan and constructed a miniature scene that could be shown in theaters. Illustration: Science and Invention/Novak Archive
The magazine explained how the filmmakers would create buildings “mounted on cardboard and cut out,” placing the small fake home on springs so that it would wobble as they moved the table with fans to simulate wind.

Source: paleofuture.gizmodo.com