Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1918)

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BERTHE, Specialist, 12 West 40lh Street, New York $50 to $100 Weekly Writing moving picture plays in spare time. Great demand. YOU can write them. We show you how. Experience not necessary. Send for free booklet of valuable information and special Prise Otler. CnlcllB0 photo -playrl<-ht College. Box 2 7 8G 28, Cargo Sunny "It" in Reel War By WILFRED NORTH \ VERY funny incident happened in the taking of the "Greater Vitagraph's" military drama, ' ' Soldiers of Chance. ' ' A battle scene was arranged for a certain day, and Director Scardon, with his usual executive ability, had everything cut and dried; the location was perfect, and the agent was on the job, with several hundred extra good supers, for the scene was an important one, where the insurrectoes were making a last desperate attempt to attain the supremacy over the loyal troops, and the loyal troops were just as determined they should not attain that end. But, alas! the weather was dull and gloomy; so much so, that someone in authority dismissed the army of supers. Fifteen minutes later out popped "Old Sol, ' ' and in half an hour the day was all that could be desired for good photography. Mr. Scardon hurried down from his office, to find that his super army had fled. At his wits' end, he ordered his assistant to go down to the docks and dig up as many husky Italian longshoremen as he could find and bring them back with him. The assistant succeeded admirably in his quest, and there was a likely-looking array in the yard for inspection, all decked out in faded overalls and cotton hooks. The padrone in charge asked, "Wata disa worka?" "Moving pictures." "Oh, da mova da pict! How mucha you pay?" He was told; then followed a lively debate in Italian, followed by a swelling chorus of "No, no! Fordy centa hour!" The price was finally compromised, they got into the uniforms, and then the fun began. There is no wonder that General Cardona's men are doing so well at the Italian front, judging from the way those Wops entered into the spirit of the thing. In fact, there was no holding them ; they fairly ate it up. They went through the enemy's line like sunshine through a summer mist. There was no surrender; the only way was to knock them on the head. Well, to save the opposing army's life, Mr. Scardon very diplomatically divided the Italians and let them fight each other, and, believe me, they did in a manner to suit the most exacting. In one scene the building of a barricade was required while the camera was in motion. The Italians arose to the occasion and began running into the scene with bales of hay on their shoulders that would have taken the strength of two ordinary supers to lift. After several battle scenes Mr. Scardon decided that he would not need all the Italians for the rest of the shots and tried to send some of them back to the studio. There was an immediate protest, which, when interpreted, simmered down to the fact that none would be allowed to go back before the rest, for fear that he would pick out the best suit of street clothes that the others had left in the dressing-room. This also was arranged to their satisfaction. They were just starting to take a scene arranged around an angle of a building, and when, from around the other angle of the building, bang, bling, blang, blinkety, slam, zowie! The scene stopped, and Mr. Scardon and the others in the cast ran around the angle, to find that the Italians had chosen up sides and were pulling off a battle scene on their own account and were at it full tilt. They were finally pried apart and quiet restored, but not until several very good shots were taken of the impromptu scene. The upshot was Mr. Scardon declared he had some of the best concerted action he ever obtained, which only goes to show that necessity is the mother of invention, even in the movies. Movie Problems "What's puzzling the director now?" "Here's the problem — we got a scene at the Pyramids." "Well?" "Now, would it be cheaper to take 3,000 people to Egypt or build a bunch of pyramids outside Los Angeles?" Stupendous Moving picture director— I tell you I don't want any more of these Jules Vernes photoplays beneath the sea. I'm sick of shark fighting and all that. Scenario writer — But my play is different; it is full of beautiful swimming maidens. I have named it "Twenty Thousand Legs under the Sea."