The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000172
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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CHAPTER XIII ENTER SARAH BERNHARDT 6^0 WIN S. Porter, he who produced The Great Train Robbery, was working in 1912 as director of the Rex Company, leading independents. With Griffith and Dawley, he stood perhaps at the head of his profession. Though business policy held him down to oneand two-reelers, he enjoyed such merited reputation that Rex, alone of all the independents, had been invited to accept licence from the Trust — and had declined with sarcastic thanks. Zukor, in process of getting his education with the motion picture, visited the Rex studios; on the strength of his burning admiration for The Great Train Robbery he struck up an acquaintance with its director. When the idea of longer and better films began to mount to an obsession, he talked it all over with Porter. The director proved more than sympathetic. He was himself railing at the limitations of the one-reeler. Europe, as I have said before, had no superstitions about the practical length of moving-picture films. Nor did the legitimate stage, over there, regard it with scorn. At this very moment, the Italians were preparing to produce in five or six reels Gabiria, a tale of ancient Rome IS4