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July, 1911.
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turned to their writers with explanations of their deficiencies. The few available ones are then sent to the main offices, where they are filed away to await their time of production, their authors being paid at once.
When the time comes for using one of the scripts it is assigned a number, which becomes the number of that film throughout its operations. The producer then makes his notes and devises in his mind the "business" of the various scenes. Then must be considered, in their order, locations, properties, costumes, scenery and casts. Each of these items is taken care of by the head of its depart
pleted, the next step is to fit them together, selecting the best negative of each scene. The film negative is then projcted under the rigid scrutinizing of Mr. Selig, Mr. Nash and other officials of the plant. Here it is that minute flaws of detail, business or photography are detected, and the offending scenes must be taken over again.
But ultimately there is secured a practically perfect negative. The unused secondary negatives of the various scenes are filed in a fireproof vault, to be available in case of emergency. The service negative is taken to the
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ment and his assistant, in consultation at all times with the producer.
At last everything is ready for the camera. The cast has been arranged, the scenery built and painted, the special properties and costumes bought and fitted. But before a picture is taken each scene must be rehearsed, not once, but many times, until each actor grasps the spirit of the play perfectly. These rehearsals, too, have the advantage of suggesting to the producer those little changes of business or costume that make for perfection of detail. Finally the perfected scenes are filmed, two, three, even four separate negatives being made of each.
The negatives of all the scenes of a film being com
positive process rooms, where many prints are taken from it on rapid automatic printing machines tended by deft-fingered girls, all working by the dim light of ruby lanterns. We have neglected to mention how the raw film stock is obtained from the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, N. Y., how it is perforated by special little die punches working in the dark, and comes out ready for the camera and the printing machine. Suffice it to say that the finished prints, after inspection, are boxed ready to deliver to the waiting film exchanges — who, in turn, rent them to the theaters, where they are shown to literally millions of delighted pleasure seekers.
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