We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
March 26, 1927
EXHIBITORS HERALD
19
A tourist may find this quaint German inn on the Metro-Goldw5m-Mayer lot where L u b i t s c h directs “Old Heidelberg.”
the story “Mother Machree,” which John Ford directed recently. No detail has been neglected to make these old homes look as homey and homely as the originals.
If you want to see a bit of the Orient you can find it also at Culver City on the M.-G.-M. lot where Director William Nigh is shooting scenes for “Mr. Wu” with Lon Chaney. Other scenes used in “Tell It to the Marines” depict bits of China with unique round doorways, swinging lamps and mysterious passages.
Holland in winter was recently reproduced for the Marion Davies opus “The Red Mill” at M.-G.-M. studios, and Clarence Brown who directed “Flesh and the Devil” for the same company built a Berlin, Germany, railway station and a complete train of cars.
For scenes for “The Branding Iron” Director Reginald Barker reproduced an Alpine village and with the aid of “snow” and wind machines duplicated a terrific mountain blizzard.
And of course almost every corner of America is duplicated on the various studio lots. The home of Harriet Beecher Stowe graces one corner of Universal City and Mexican and Canadian abodes dot the various lots.
The distinguishing feature in this Chinese set for “Mr. Wu,” M. G. M. picture, is the display of native blossoms and Chinese architecture.
Technical staffs are effecting sets realistic in detail and design. They go to great ends to provide sets that may be used in pictures going to China or far off Africa without fear of criticism from natives for the want of consistency.
Producers are willing to spend money freely for such accuracy and their purpose is to turn out sincere product that shows the amount of effort put into the pictures.
Pictures with foreign settings have become more popular than they were five or six years ago. The increasing tolerance for them and the decreasing objection to Europe may be traced back to the popularity of “The Sheik,” “The Four Horsemen,” a number of war pictures and others that proved to the theatregoing public that good pictures can be made with foreign atmosphere.
It is a good thing for the producers that such an objection has been broken down and it is a better thing for the public.
M. G. M.’s Andes set for “The Temptress.”
A canal artificially frozen for a skating scene in “The Above still was shot during the making of “What Price
Red Mill” plays an important part in the Metro-Gold Glory,” Fox film. The set is a reproduction of a street
wyn-Mayer picture. in Bar Le Due, France.