"How I did it," ([c1922])

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.

Highlights of Production Technicalities dential part of the estate was so "squatty" when I looked toward the camera again and saw our old friend the "glass," with the up- per story of the home painted upon it. This innocent device saves a lot of con- struction money and many trips to location. It never helps the motion picture business any to tell its secrets to outsiders, but I am speaking of these few devices, the others be- ing the tank and the rain, snow and wind machines, to make clear the fact that the stu- dios will meet almost any requirements your story forces upon them. My publishers are not encouraging the curious to purchase this volume, so I feel I am not hurting the busi- ness any by telling the studio tricks. A lot of airplane "stunt stuff" that looks on the screen as if it were made high in the air is photographed only a few feet above the ground or studio stage, in the latter instance in front of a painted "drop." When Rudyard Kipling consented to have his "Without Benefit of Clergy" made into a motion picture, he wanted the producer to agree that the filming would take place in 153