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tive exposed on the climb we found that we really had a good picture, and aside from the commercial angle it was a great joy to be able to see that trip over again and again while seated in a chair in some theater. We discovered points that had been overlooked because of our exhausted condition during the climb; saw many things that we didn't realize had been happening.
One thought which I wish to bring out to the amateur at this point is the question of not letting his scenes run too long, but to use as many different camera setups as possible and to cut each scene before it becomes tiresome. The training that I had in this regard came about in a peculiar manner. The cameraman, whom I hired on my first trip in the making of this picture, afterwards known as "When the Mountains Call," Avas Jesse G. Sill of Portland, Oregon. Operating on a shoe stringas I was and with a personal financial depression always hanging over my head, I made a typical Scotch-Yankee deal with Mr. Sill. I hired him to crank the camera, furnish the film, develop and print it at lO^4 a foot, I to furnish his traveling and living expenses. At every set-up of the camera I Avatched him like a hawk because I realized that with every turn of the crank six inches of film passed his lens and I had spent a nickel. A tAventy-foot scene and I could almost hear my Scotch ancestors calling to me to "cut." For that reason the picture Avas edited at the camera, and instead of long drawn-out scenes it held eight, ten and fifteen-foot scenes, some being even as short as six and seven feet. The result was a finished picture with plenty of life, action and snap, as there was not a foot of superfluous film in the entire production.
It must be remembered that since 1914, Avhen the usual camera speed Avas one foot of film or sixteen pictures to the second, it has noAV been changed to tAventy-four pictures to the second, and the scenes must now necessarily run longer than they did in the old days. But eveu now a tAventy-five foot scene should be an exception, as you will get more satisfaction with fifteen and twenty-foot ones in your finished reel.
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