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the director to concentrate his efforts on important parts of the work. It can be readily understood that a conscientious director might photograph from so many angles with a number of cameras as to accumulate sufficient negative for two or three different pictures telling the same story.
It often happens that the dialog or the action, as planned, does not seem timely or suitable when rehearsed. This may result in a delay while the director consults the supervisor and the writer, and revisions are made. Since, when possible, the actors are used in groups in order to economize on time, the sickness or absence of even a relatively unimportant member of the cast may disrupt a carefully scheduled program for using the stages and sets. Likewise, the failure of the director to complete each day's work as outlined may result in a disruption of the schedules of other units which may be expecting to use certain actors, sets, or properties. In such cases, the management and their representatives on the unit staffs exercise their judgment in rearranging the work to take care of the emergency, and the studio departments demonstrate their ingenuity and ability to make good in the face of difficulty.
The scenes and sequences making up a picture are seldom photographed in continuity for reasons of convenience and economy. For example, in The Virginian a scene was shot, reverse angle, of Gary Cooper running after Mary Brian to save her from a tame cow, the next flash showing them coming toward the camera. The two takes were made 400 miles apart and two weeks had elapsed between them. It may be somewhat of a strain on the actors and the director to maintain the tempo and the illusion of continuity on this basis, but by referring to the previously completed work and to the detailed records of the script girls, an acceptable result is usually obtained. It would be highly embarrassing to produce an expensive day's work with an actor wearing a different collar or tie, a hat of different shape, or perhaps even with a different quality of make-up, since, if such a scene were allowed to go into the finished picture a deluge of mail criticizing the inaccuracy would be received. Adherence to a policy of accuracy in detail means records in usable form, and the experienced script girls, wardrobe, and prop men not only keep the records, but can produce the information and the apparel and props at what is often a moment's notice. Even more important is the forethought necessary to have on the job when working at a place remote from the studio warehouses all the material which might