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42 The Latest Wrinkle— Silhouette Movies
An excellent scene from a silhouette picture, showing the care that is given to details.
With commendable promptness, the man who makes a business of supplying comic relief to moving-picture patrons, Mr. Bray supplied the necessary funds to set Mr. Gilbert up in business.
A subsidiary corporation to Mr. Bray's original company was formed. It is called the Bray-Gilbert Studio, and the new films will be ''released" through the gigantic distributing agency, the Paramount Pictures Corporation. That merely means that the pictures will be shown in the better-class moving-picture theaters. Several "one-reel" stories have been already completed.
Down in Washington Mews, the quaintest little alley in old New York, near the lovely spot where the delicate tracery of the elms of the square weave their magic designs against the glowing sky line of the arch that frames the miles of stately lights of Fifth Avenue, the newest of moving-picture studios is located. Wagons filled with strange mechanical appliances and futuristic
black curtains rumbled over the cobblestones of the narrow alley, and deposited their burdens at the door of Xo. 44, while members of the colony — only short-story writers call it a quarter — gaped in astonishment.
The new " studio was originally a barn, then an artist's studio ; to-day it is a little, amusing spot stolen from fairyland, and nailed to earth by heavy, lens-eyed machines.
It is quite unlike any moving-picture studio I have ever seen. The back wall is entirely covered with a plain, white drop of simple material. Strong, crude, boldly and charily lined sketches Of simple backgrounds give it the appearance of a gigantic pastel. A few feet ahead, a raised platform, or stage, is built. All the lights glow and are deflected upon the background in shining splendor — none of them are directed upon the stage. A row of powerful footlights encircle the rear part of the acting platform.