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AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING 375
and this in turn painted with kalsomines over and over again, enabling your scenic artist to paint a fresh set for each new play attempted. Finally, the interior shots, illuminated by the type of arc made for amateur use have a character which very closely imitates professional quality.
A supply of black, white, brown and blue kalsomine (water mixed) paints will suffice for almost any scenic work needed. Blue, used alone will photograph very lightly, black and white are used in mixtures to secure the photo-grays and the brown added to give a warm tone, killing the blue-black tone of the darker black-white mixtures.
In dressing the set the amateur craftsman will be in his glory. A full supply of thin tin plate, tinfoil, burlap, wire screen cloth, plaster of paris and paint will set him up as "Props." With such a supply of material he will be able to deliver practically any prop you may demand from an Egyptian sistrum to mediaeval bill-hook or modern cigarette box. Armor is made of tin plate and tinfoil glued to more tractable material. Boulders are made of screen wire irregularly stretched over wooden supports. This is in turn covered with plaster and painted. Stumps and logs are made in the same way, jewelry is made from tinplate or purchased at a ten cent store.
In fact, a little ingenuity, the materials mentioned above and the tremendous array of miscellaneous articles found in the usual home will solve the question of properties. In case you are working with "period" or "costume" plays, it is always a very good idea to go to the public library and there look up the various articles as well as the costumes proper for the period and class represented.
In practically every club there will be one or two members who are willing to take over the supervision of properties and costumes.
Costume. — Of course in modern plays the question of costume is quite simple, but in plays of other days it is necessary that costumes be made for the occasion. In this work it is well to note that there are many cotton weaves which in every way simulate the most expensive silks and