Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

Making a Million Dollar Picture 43 of properly trying the film, a very necessary and important part of my work. "Mr. Fox has authorized me to install a system of fans, as the faster the film dries in this climate the smaller the grain will be. The drying room has been made dust proof by using very fine netting and placing a system of suction blowers, by which the air is forced out of the room. The air of this room is positively controlled by this method in conjunction with the refrigerating plant at a positive temperature of sixty-five degrees. The positive prints are made under the same conditions. "The projection rooms adjoining the laboratory are equipped very elaborately, so that Mr. Brenon and his assistants may be able to be certain that the best work has been done." When Mr. Schneiderman had finished this lengthy talk, my brain was in a muddle from all the technical terms, and I hastened to the hotel and jotted it down, with a cool Jamaican drink by my side. Later that night I met him again, and, inspired by a clear Havana cigar, he waxed enthusiastic. "Most of my staff of assistants," he said, "inspired by the liberality of Mr. Fox, and his determination to make this feature a world beater, have spared neither time nor pains to take full advantage of the wonderful opportunities he has presented to them. When the picture is finished, I am sure it will prove that motion-picture photography in the tropics, which has heretofore been surrounded with difficulties, owing to the financial inability of companies engaged therein to make such elaborate preparations as Mr. Fox, will be seen to be not only entirely feasible, but even better, as far as the sharpness and distinctness of the film is concerned, than will Mrs. Lee, the wardrobe mistress, costuming a native.