Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

76 EXHIBITORS HERALD June 24, 1922 East Coast Studios By JOHN S. SPARGO (Concluded from page 75) Ivan Abramson is at work at the old Goldwyn-Oliver studios on a picture for Graphic Films, entitled "Wild Youth." Mary Anderson, the popular little star of "Too Much Married," "Bluebeard, Jr." and "The Halfbreed," has the lead in the Abramson picture. Others in the cast are Harry Morey, Julia Swayne Gordon, Thurston Hall and Joseph Striker. Many of the exteriors will be taken in the Greenwich Village district of New York. * * * Hamilton Smith has completed a picture in the Metro studios, the exteriors having been done in Maine. Wyndham Standing and Dorothy Mackail head the cast, which is a special production and probably will be distributed by Paramount. * * * Elmer Clifton has been busy on a picture being made in New Bedford, Mass., and is rushing work to completion for early distribution. This is a whaling PENRYHN STANLAWS, artist and producer, explains to Bebe Daniels, Paramount star, the fine points of a rare piece of porcelain which he has placed in a beautiful set for "Pink Gods." story, featuring Raymond McKee and Marguerite Courtot. The picture is titled "Down to the Sea in Ships," and Director Clifton took many of the sea views in southern waters. * * * William Burt started work yesterday on a series of twenty-four two-reel detective stories, under the title "Thrills of the Tenement," in the D. C. Ficher studios. These will be distributed by Clark-Cornelius Corporation. * * * John Lowell, who made the successful "Ten Nights in A Barroom," distributed by Arrow, is at work on his next picture at his studio in Gloversville, N. Y. It will be a Western made from "Open Places," a story in People's Home Journal," by L. Case Russell, the well known short story and scenario writer. The production is planned to be even more pretentious than "Ten Nights" and will take several months in the making. * * * Pine Tree Pictures Corporation, under the direction of Dell Henderson, have taken the exteriors of a James Oliver Curwood production called "Jacqueline" in Maine and will complete the picture at Fort Lee. Frank Lloyd to Head Own Producing Unit (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 13.— Frank Lloyd is to have his own production unit backed by Joseph M. Schenck, for First National publication after the completion of the present Norma Talmadge feature, according to rumors here. Represents Industry (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 13.— Carl Gantvoort, former Boston grand opera star, and recently featured in Benjamin B. Hampton productions, will represent the motion picture industry in a mammoth out-door representation of "Carmen," in Hollywood Bowl on July 8. Marguerita Sylva and Edward Johnson, Chicago tenor, head the cast. Entertain Rotarians (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 13.— A thousand Rotarians were guests of RobertsonCole studios on Saturday, and saw Paul Powell, Famous Players-Lasky director, film a special picture for their benefit in Hollywood Bowl. Doug Stages Tourney (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 13.— A Robin Hood tournament, attended by thousands was staged by Douglas Fairbanks Sunday for the benefit of the Assistance League of Southern California. Julian With Universal (Special to Exhibitors Herald) LOS ANGELES, June 13.— Rupert Julian has returned to the directorial staff of Universal. See New Photographic Possibilities Process in Single Reel Film Discloses Opportunities for Development in Scenic Treatment The novel single reel picture, "The Enchanted City," created by Warren Newcombe has been made the basis of an interesting discussion of an opening up of the possibilities of scenic treatment in motion pictures, in the current issue of Exceptional Photoplays, published by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Photography in miniature of painted pictures, and superimposition of photographs of actors upon these flat scenes is at the bottom of this new technique, of which the review says : "Here, then, is a photographic process which holds out practically unlimited possibilities for the pictorial side of the photodrama. It means that on a surface the size of a small painter's canvas you can execute a scenic background of tremendous proportions — you can put on the screen a picture of the upper spaces of air filled with the constellations, or the entire Inferno, and you can fill it with people appearing in relation to its nearest objects no larger than mere moving specks. In other words, the artist's imagination is completely unchained to work in the creative fields of the motion picture screen. Subjects hitherto forbidden by the excessive cost of trying to reaii/c their pictorial and atmospheric backgrounds, are at once made susceptible of treatment and a whole new hori zon is opened up to the eye of the cinema camera." * * * Dealing with the Newcombe picture, the article continues — "One picture, single reel in length, has already been placed before the public, utilizing the photographic technique above outlined. 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