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8. PUBLIC DEMAN DS

.\lll()l1[,' the rﬁnst pictures [produc- ed uudcr the Kessel and Bnulnann banner at Edendale, ‘my initial ven- tllro lll California, was aconiedy vlliillvll "The New Cook." It ran 11 hour. ti: scones, less than a reel, as ‘t four to seven hundred . cncs, or live to eight reels, which t-unlpllso tile feature picture 0i’ 1.0- titty.

'l'lllt<. nlaiden effort was a big suc- cuss, howcver, and with the inrpet- us glrcli nle ‘by the praise it receiv. cd, l hccthnle bolder and produced olllcr successes.

'l‘ho ilrobleni of stories was a. se- rlous one, oven in those days, be- ritlliie thcre were no scenario de- pnrtmcnln and no market from which to purchase scenarios. The nly sto-ries available. it 1 may be pl-rnlittcd to use that term, were tho uilcxnphs of school pupils who

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. l , - _. _ _ I . '_ I 9, as well burn down the hbnse, or“ ' v __ . ' _ lblow up the bridge. That would get ; a thrill." . I I -, - . u. -- l, -. ' » ‘And so it wont. until neoeéaity, . - - caused the development of the con. ‘ - = “mill?- wbich is a working script of the story, with each scene clear. " ' ly deﬁned and the situations work- ed out in logicul seqn9n¢e_ This form‘ 0i’ manuscript came through it; own demand and practically de veloped itself. For the Saki; of con. veniclice a director would classify the scenes we were to take each day, and Jot down on a. piece of pa per, or maybe on his cull, and thus the more elaborate form _of a de» FQRQE pROGRE55_ tailed and lﬁnished continuity came about and gradually established it- ﬁced, and a new ty-pe of “movie" Bel! "B the llﬂlelliell filmi- was evolved—tiie one in which ' someone would inadvertently upset a fruit vendor's cart, or steal an apple, causing such ﬁerce indigna- '19 m9 ﬁlmy dill/o of ﬁlrndom. tlon ‘on the part of the peddler that ‘productions often were crude and u nlun-clinso for the culprit would ﬂl19d Willi "Vail? llwllhsruitlos. I-n cilsue. a picture where letters and tele- Thrillg, Bug No Flog, grams were used the handwriting on letters written by individuals in The chase would be "taken up by the story. mill telegrams coming otillvrs, tho before they had gone a from the telegraph ollloo were oil blot-k the whole community would in tho some handwriting Words be in pursuit, gathering momentum were mlspeiled and Zrﬂlmlllﬂlioﬂl as it wont, dashing madly down errors were frequent. steep hillsides, across brooks, over fencer-l and through wooded country this lack of consistency ‘and "falllly until the culprit was apprehended production occurred in one of th! and brought to justice. curly ‘pictures, the story oi’ which These pictures carried a deﬁned concerned a young American who thrill, and l can remember (mullet. was visiting in 'l‘urkey. i think his , ly bow an excited audience would Home was Jones- llieins on chlor- cheer wildly at tllc antics oi‘ the prising youth. Jones decided lo liar n clandestine visit to the Sultan's

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harem. He was discovered by the irate Sultnln rind thrown into prison.

‘Such an act being considered a sacrilege, Jones was condemned to die, and to properly get this fact over to the audience, a letter was delivered ‘to Jones from the Sultan, which read as follows:

"My deur Mr. Jones—i beg to ' inform you that tomorrow at sun- rise y0u will he executed for break- ing into my harem. Yours very truly, The Sultan."

Mistakes Overlooked.

I have no doubt that the meaning was clear to the audience, and i have no doubt that the audience accepted this inconsistency without resentment, but wlrat would an audience 0t today do to such an in- congruous expression?

in the days of the double expos- ure developement, a scene occurred lu a. lion's cage which was supposed to depict several very ‘ﬁerce and angry lions. The lions were old, contented and at -peace with the world, and were not looking lor

Onc incident. which illustrates ‘

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trou-ble. To make the scene con- vincing it. was necessary to arouse

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first script. with l total of 50 Icon In modern futures.

3g i. nn u - he rm. 2mm - ma ma: - um- _ The ﬁrst ‘axposure was taken o, ‘y n. air-p - Gayle uimym. sum - 41w it in mu -_ a. um- - In am. lohu w) - mum and nun amused. The second was to slurs‘: h “h. _ "u" m__ w“ u“ _ u,‘ a _ n" “m,” the keeper prodding . em. 5- "ml.- i" "i" “m” something gone wrong with the s. "m. . Qﬂnﬂ an‘. - mu up nun l mu , blending. of the 1 two exposures. ' _ . ' When the doub e BXPOBUPB W55 . " J“ m"- “uu m" ‘m n“ ‘ n“ M‘ l ‘ thrown on the scene the keeper was- ‘ in front "o! the lions poking the air ‘n, n”; . oeyio mu in . 1m: a‘ gin! nut . y [rwzrtlonlly with the stick, while the f u ‘y, u m; "gull o! mum on m: ' \, lions looked on in silent amuse- ‘ . ' w _-. \_l L "- I!" * "I" ‘W1 m‘ "" 1 xi.’ [when you stop to think that even n. Balolill - dull "l! lo A mu I WWII ' ‘ Qt ten years ago such things were the

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their anger, so it was decided that the keeper ohouid get behind the-m

rmunion - and prod them with a stick.

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lnlntctl to write "ior the movies," lld they were useless. lt therefore i-voivcd upon lthe director to unan- lnclurc ills stories from his own ruin. Tricks That Sltldﬂed.

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llcnt of pictures, ’i must go back yrior to my advent into the indus-

y. to lllc time when there was no lot hr. all. Moving pictures then “i? Illvfoly n series o! scenes de- lcllllu objects and lﬁgures in mo- i""» “"1 pantomime ‘alone llllﬂlilnl’. moth: these were the highly amus- l~' ""11 lllystifying trick picture!

whit-h a man would 1B6 run over .\' ll lstchm roller audyprend out " lilo ground as that methanol-oven hunt-alto. He would lbe reduced

. operation of the camera from lllro gtlllmentioml mini, having "Kill. breadth and thickness, to a ‘odlmcntlonal beingfhtqingzonly "m" "n1 breadth. his thickness Pint: that. of n sheet of paper. ‘than Y "Writing the ﬁlm he “would be stored to his normal out and lrllrlure. ‘llut the ‘public soon became more phlstlcated and denllmidil a 6t.

. picture andjteep the cast standing, is the gospel 0f l-horollsillwﬂl-

J ust Fiddlin’ actors. and actually in their imagin-

ations, join ln the chase. But. even bu,“ 01.61135,“ h; made up o1 n these pictures, which were a dis- ‘o! of different instruments, Some iinct advancement over the trick men pound and some Mo“ bu; 31m. ﬁlms. carried no real plot. mm Browu_.j“5g fiddled,

IPictures had established no pre- Jimmie had been a M1811; young. cedents and the public took them stem a pronﬂglng boy. Folks pre- BB they WE"?- bl" i“ the industry dicted a hearty success from llim. began i0 ZrOW. ﬁlo Illlrbilc ‘beca-m“ But they had been disappointed. more demmllding and the story pro- Boys around him ‘had climbed. hlem loomed larso- I! W“ 1"" and were conductors and lenders in about that time that l ‘became actu- 1416'; omnggtrn. Some of his old Elli’ 811885911 ill picture milklnﬂ- chums had assumed leading parts Brﬂdllﬂily hi! r598" 1° BB! 81°F"!!! here and there. in factory, (arm. that had some semblance of a plot. and city, in shop and office. But,

Even when stories were ﬁrst aﬁ- somehow, Jim just fiddled along. opted there was no such thing us! He bad ability, bllt he dldnt use continuity. A director would get the it. He might have been a hustler-

press on the children how import- the Ho“, who were only mnmy ant had been the discovery of the not seem impressed. “Yes, miss,” he

THE MORAL that lie discovered gravitation. Just think, children." she added, "isn't The teacher was trying to im- that wonderful?"

‘The “smart lboy" in the class did

15y 0f Erilvliﬂllﬂll. piped up. "And ii’ he bad lbeen sit~ Sir Isaac Newbon was sitting on ting in school looking at his books

‘d h aged had not the ground and looking at the tree. he wouldn't have discovered any. scene we“ ave pa An apple ‘fell on his head ,and from thing.

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