The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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The Educational Screen From Hollywood {Concluded from page 18) At this point the Art Director's job as- sumes an amazing complexity. He ex- tends his range of activities to the entire "lot." He invades the lumberyard, which is a necessary part of the motion picture studio, and the planing mill, which is a real manufacturing plant in itself. He supervises the construction of the sets. He paints them himself, if necessary. From now until the picture is finished, he does anything from designing the smallest detail of carving in a stone facade to engineering an ocean storm in a con- crete pool. "If 1 had had any idea that I would go into the movies at the time I was study- ing," Mr. Okey remarked, "I certainly should have studied differently." Eleven years' experience as Art Director have taught him much, especially, he says, about how not to do things! The facilities which the Art Director has at his disposal are many, varied, ad huge. There is the lumberyard, for ij stance, with its million feet of lumbe There is the lumber mill. There is tl big building where workers in plaster ri produce anything from a Greek statl to a skilful imitation of a time-woJ wooden column. There is the buildin which houses row upon row of furnitur] ranging from a great carved and caiiopie bed that must have been designed for a less than a king, to the very latest c up-to-date breakfast-room furniture. "You don't manufacture all this he{ on the grounds?" I asked. "Ninety-five per cent of it," was tM answer. So when you consider the material wii which the Art Director has to work, pe^ haps that five hundred per cent improve ment is not to be so greatly wondered a1 after all. At any rate, it furnishes fooj for hopeful speculation concerning trf artistic achievements of motion picture in the future. Exchanges (Concluded from page 24) New Haven, Conn. Pittsburgh, Pa. New Orleans, La. St. Louis, Mo. New York City. San Francisco, Calif. Omaha, Neb.' Seattle, Wash. Philadelphia, Pa. Washington, D. C. FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORP. Albany, N. Y. Atlanta, Ga. Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. Charlotte, N. C. Chicago, 111. Cincinnati, Ohio. Cleveland, O. Dallas, Texas. Denver, Colo. Des Moines, Iowa. Detroit, Mich. Kansas City, Mo. Los Angeles, Calif. Minneapolis, Minn. PATHE EXCHANGE, INC. Albany, N. Y. Boston, Mass. New Haven, Conn. New Orleans, La. New York City. Oklahoma City, Okla. Omaha, Neb. Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa. Portland, Me. Portland, Ore. Salt Lake City, Utah. San Francisco, Calif. Seattle, Wash. St. Louis, Mo. Washington, D. C. Charlotte, N. C. Chicago, 111. Cincinnati, Ohio. Cleveland, O. Dallas, Texas. Denver, Colo. Des Moines, Iowa. Detroit, Mich. Indianapolis, Ind. Kansas City, Mb. Milwaukee, Wis. Minneapolis, Minn. Newark, N. J. New Orleans, La. New York City. Oklahoma City, Okla., Omaha, Neb. Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. Salt Lake City, UtahJ San Francisco, Calif. Seattle, Wash. Washington, D. C. Producers Atlanta, Ga. Buffalo, N. Y. Beseler Educational Film Company, 71 West 23rd St., New York, N. Y. Carter Cinema Company, 220 West 42nd St., New York, N. Y. George Kleine, 116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. Society for Visual Education, 806 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, 111.