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The Making of A Picture
Sets are painted;
Sets are dressed;
Actors and actresses, are hired;
Cameramen are hired;
Sets are lighted;
Actual "shooting" of picture begins.
However, there is no model system used. Sometimes, the big, important sets are designed and built before the continuity is finished. Sometimes, even the principals and the director are hired, or assigned, before the continuity is finished. Frequently, both the adaptation and the continuity are rewritten several times and by several different writers.
It has happened that a picture is half made, when suddenly the order goes out to cease production. The principals, the directors, etc., remain on salary, in enforced idleness. Conferences are held. It is decided to remake the entire picture. Hollywood report is that Frances Marion, widow of the late and greatly loved Fred Thompson, received $15,000.00 for rewriting an entire picture.
In some cases, even several of the principals are changed, after a picture has been started, though the studio has to pay the salaries of those under contract, even if they do not continue to use them in the picture.
Of course, expensive changes are due sometimes to lack of fore' sight, hastily made plans, etc. But, before deciding that such costly errors prove that producers are fools or poor business men, consider the fact that many automobile manufacturers, furniture makers, etc., have committed much the same kind of errors. Thousands of dollars of machinery, auto models, furniture models, have been scrapped by the manufacturers because of many different reasons.
Some changes are forced upon the producer by circumstances over which he has no control. Accidents occur; death, heedless of studio plans, removes a director or star, and takes them (let us hope) to a place where the laughter, beauty, entertainment, which their efforts brought to our weary moments, are waiting for them, transformed and translated infinitely.
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