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advantages of this system of lighting are claimed to be many. The portability of the equipment is one factor. Its ease on the performers' eyes is another. Its silence, as compared with the sputtering arcs, is vital in making talking pictures. And, possibly most important of all, the number of electricians needed to operate the new equipment, as compared with the old, is said to represent a tremendous saving in overhead. So, it is believed by its proponents, this new method developed by technical experiment, although requiring a large investment to install, will result in the production of better pictures at a considerable saving.
The close attention paid to lighting methods is also devoted to other problems. One cannot visit Hollywood and fail to be impressed by the careful handling of details in preparation for shooting of scenes. Before a set is built artists visualize what they are to construct and make careful drawings of what the camera is to see. In making The Cossacks at Metro-GoldwynMayer studios, for example, detailed sketches were made of the interior of a Cossack's home. The property man needed to know exactly what type of
Sketch from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. HOW A MOVIE SET IS VISUALIZED ON PAPER. Every Detail Was Clearly Set Forth and Then Carefully Followed in This Scene for The Cossac\.
furnishings to use, and sort of costumes to supply. Extensive study and research were required. The little intimate details of the Cossack's home life, the types of drinking cups, the
Photograph by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. HOLLYWOOD'S ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS DEMONSTRATED BY THIS SET IN THE COSSACK, THE ORIGINAL SKETCH FOR WHICH IS SHOWN ABOVE.
pictures on the walls, the rugs on the floor, all of these were important. They would go to make the difference between a good picture and an indifferent one.
After the sketches were made, the architect was enabled to fashion his blue prints from them, the carpenter could make his furniture, and the property man could provide the proper accessories.
In arranging your own sets, no matter how simple, you should follow the same degree of caution and selection. Get the habit of being accurate. Don't make the mistake of believing that no one will know the difference between what is right and what is wrong. They will. And even if they don't, it is a good thing for you to know you are right. Psychologically, the fact that you know you are right is important. How true this is in regard to clothes. If you are conscious of being well dressed, you accomplish more. You are not forced to think continuously of how you look. And so it is with pictures.
I remember passing a deserted set one day at the Paramount Studio. There was an altar scene and on the altar was a book. No one could possibly have seen the book. It might as well have been a dictionary or telephone directory, but I was curious to know just what it was. I went up and looked at it, and found that it was somebody's Concordance of Holy Scriptures. The studio had gotten the habit of being accurate in small details. And you can form no better habit.
I remember having heard it said that Sarah Bernhardt made her Camille incomparable by the use of her
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