Hands of Hollywood (1929)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Chapter IX LOCATIONS Motion pictures often require one or more locations. Since the large studios usually have several pictures in production at the same time, it is necessary to employ a man who devotes his entire time to the finding of suitable locations. He is called the Location Manager. The Location Manager is provided with an automobile in which he drives all over the state (for long trips he goes by train or boat), taking snapshots of various types of location scenes for picture backgrounds. He reads scripts, confers with directors and cameramen as to pictorial requirements, and consults the production manager with regard to production costs. If the budget for a picture is low, the location manager must find inexpensive locations, i. e., those close to the studio, so that transportation costs will not be excessive. When the director chooses a ranch, a particular house, or a private swimming pool, for his location, the location manager arranges with the owners for the amount of rental to be paid for the use of their property. He also has charge of the hotel and travel reservations for the cast and staff of a traveling company. When the company goes on location to the desert, mountains, or to any place where there are no hotel accommodations, he arranges for the hiring of a commissary agent who supplies the food and the sleeping accommodations for the entire company. The qualifications are: ability to find appropriate locations; enough knowledge of photography to recognize the pictorial pos* sibilities of locations; knowledge of the roads and general geography of the state. The salary ranges from $75.00 to $100.00 per week. The Commissary Agent establishes a regular commissary department on location, providing the food, tents, cots, bedclothes, and all supplies. Sometimes these locations look like "little cities of the [83]