Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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asmmspe i This sketch of Holbrook Blinn who gives Lord Clowes his shadow being was made behind the camera line . . . while Mr. Blinn waited for the director's delayed call of "C-a-m-e-r-a!" Motion picture actors respond to that command with the same alacrity that soldiers manifest at the sound of the word "F-i-r-e!" It is Joseph Kilgour who stands in the role of George Washington in the Valley Forge scene above. Casting directors have never found anyone better fitted to portray the Father of Our Country. Personally, we think it quite unnecessary to look any farther Anyone would think that motion picture producers had just discovered the American Revolution. Here D. W. Griffith has just given us his "America," which is actually a historical chronicle of the uprising of the Colonies and the war that followed. And now "Janice Meredith" finds its background and story motivation in the stirring events of those brave days Above is a full-length pencil study of Harrison Ford. . . . And our artist captioned the sketch on the left: "A couple of 'hams'" 56