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And a third point. The subject matter for education and propaganda is seldom easy. You are not asked to look for the exciting bits and the exciting themes and shoot these. You are generally asked to hunt about in some seemingly dull subject and find a way of putting it on the screen. The producer's job is, by educational or sociological or other reference, to bring his director to the sticking point. This is the most fruitful part of his work, and is the highest justification of those sponsors of education and propaganda who might, on sloppier theories, be considered a plague to honest artists. It is they who force the pace of documentary cinema and extend its range by the very problems they set. Any fool can make exciting films about exciting things. It is they who, in the end, make documentarians. A producer will recognise this.
But only one thing gives the producer importance: the fact that he makes directors and, through directors, makes art. It is the only thing worth an artist's making: money not excepted. Directors can be no larger than the producer allows them to be, and their films no bigger (except by noble accident) than his own imagination permits. Handling, as he may do, men of different outlooks, different temperaments, he must often, like Chesterton's Knight, ride off in all directions. The feat is difficult .but, on occasion, spectacular. It involves faith, hope, and charity for each of his directors, in different degrees; and all at the same time. The most important virtue of these is faith : which is to say, footage. The only secret of good results in documentary is that a director be permitted patience with his subject, and persistence. If these do not work once, you may try him again. You may even try him a third time. But you do not carry experiment to Biblical proportions. Round about the third time you decide you have been a bad producer in picking so bad a director. Or you decide he is a genius outside the scope of your imagination. You fire him, or fire yourself, according to your conscience.