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CINEMA PROGRESS
carefully planned and was executed on schedule. The commissary department had functioned with equal efficiency in providing savory breakfasts and luncheons for the "army" in a circus tent mess hall.
On the basis of these and other items, it cost Goldwyn about $20,000 a day to keep his company on location. To the average person this may seem an exorbitant sum to expend on production, but the figure given is the bare operating expenses, minus the salary of Cooper, Mayo, and other supporting players and technicians.
This $20,000 a day is broken up as follows : Salaries to 800 extras and
bit players $ 8,500
Salaries to 200 technicians
(electricians, cameramen,
prop men, wardrobe,, and
makeup people) 6,000
Feeding 2,345
Electric current 225
Rental of 800 costumes,
some wigs 450
Rental of site 250
Rental of Oriental furniture .... 300
Animal rentals 600
Raw film expenditure 250
Total $18,920
The total, however, does not include such items as transportation, petty cash expenditures, hospital maintenance, and feed for animals, which easily make up the difference.
But the gamble is part of the business of making pictures. The studio technicians are geniuses in the art of makebelieve and short cuts, but so far they have been unable to substitute for actual location scenes.
Selecting the School Projector
The increasing demand of progressive educators for aid in selecting projectors for educational purposes makes a general consideration of the factors affecting the choice of a projector a felt need. This need has arisen with the realization of educators that educational insituations do not all use the projectors for the same purposes. Some schools desire to use the projector for instructional purposes in the classroom; others may want to use it for larger audiences. Under certain conditions, in which the school assembly hall is not too large, the 16-mm. sound projector may be suitable for both purposes.
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Relative cost is not the only concern in the selecting of a suitable projector. Careful consideration should be given to the film supply in conjunction with the choice of a projector. Then, too, we are concerned with the various uses which may be made of the 16-mm. sound or silent projector as the case may be. This means the need of the classroom and the assembly hall must be recognized and considered.
When the appropriate type has been decided upon it remains to narrow down the choice to the actual make which will be most suitable. This matter may be facilitated and the choice insured by