Moving Picture World (Jul-Aug 1923)

July 23, 1927 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 285 UILDER5 -EVERY WEEK ] COSTUMES Rented for Orchestras and Presentations Send for Orchestra Catalog and Prices NEW YORK COSTUME CO. 137 No. Wabash Ave. Chicago, 111. TICKETS SPECIAL PRINTED ROLL OR FOLDED MACHINE AT SPECIAL PRICES The finest and most accurate tickets printed. Get our price list before placing your next order. STOCK TICKETS 40c PER ROLL SEND DIAGRAM FOR RESERVED SEAT COUPON TICKETS State how many sets desired, serial or dated NATIONAL TICKET CO. SHAMOKIN, PA. an old sailor, telescope to eye, watching the ship as it moves slowly along on the horizon. Blue and green side floods on setting; white overhead spot on sailor ; white flood from floor, right, up slowly on sun rings (zig-zag lines on sky). Turning to the girls the sailor sings a popular sea ballad. Suggested : “I sing as I sail with the rollicking gale,” ‘‘The Bell in the Lighthouse.” Introduce dance specialties of a ‘nautical’ order, such as “Sailors’ Hornpipe.” Finish with sailor singing an oldtime tune such as “Sailing” followed by a popular number. THREE — (Fig. 6) — Featuring Singers and Dancers. Pan, with his pipes, is discovered in a green overhead spot on a dim blue stage. He starts to dance, during which he, at intervals, motions the wood nymphs, right and left off-stage, to join in the dance. Green flood from projection room on the dancers. When all the nymphs are dancing, and the dance in full swing, Pan stops suddenly in a listening attitude, looking toward the center of eye. The eye parts on garden with an ocean view. Blue side floods and green glint on rose trellis. Pan and the nymphs scamper away as a singer is heard offstage in “Roses remind me of you.” The moon is rising slowly on the horizon. The singer appears in front of the steps, right, singing to the girl who is leaning against the left column. Pink spot on the girl from right. The girl joins him in the next song and the dancers are brought on for finale. “In a Little Garden” and “By a Garden Gate” are additional songs of appropriate nature. A large fan, placed off-stage so that the breeze will blow the light summer costumes of the singers, will aid materially in creating a cool atmosphere. As scrim presentations, featuring organ or stage band, introducing a singer, or singers, these diminutive settings will be found charming and distinctive. THE SETTINGS. Pointers on construction and painting. Figures 1 and 2. The backing is a plain blue sky eye, A. The mountain B, is a wall board, or a combination of wall board and paper, or muslin, on a batten frame. The foothills, C, is of similar construction, with the exception that the river, D, which is also part of this piece, is bleached muslin, dyed a medium blue to render it semi-transparent. A detailed plan of his piece is shown in figure 3. The dotted lines indicate batten frame work ; the parts C and G are opaque (wall board or paper), and D the opening covered with dyed muslin. The foreground pieces, E and F, are also of wall board and paper over batten frames. Fasten top of the big trees to fly batten. The following river effect is obtained by the use of special effect slides projected from the rear. A serviceable effect machine can he made as follows: (see fig. 3A). Cut, from wall board, a round disk, H, attach to the shaft 1, (the shaft can be a piece of J4inch pipe, the upper end fitted with a floor flange to which the disk is fastened) fit the shaft to bearings, K-L, which are merely holes bored in the frame and base M. A card board band is fastened to and suspended from the edge of the disk in such a manner that the irregular slits in the band N, will pass horizontally in front of the pin spot, O, when the disk is revolved. The slits in the band, projected as enlarged spots onto the back of the muslin forming the river furnish the effect. The disk must revolve very slowly too fast will spoil the effect. Do mountain peak in pure white high lighted with silver metallics. Blend to a light blue and grey for the lower part of the mountain. The foothills get medium blue-green with dark green and brown shading. Foreground foliage in dark green. Tree trunks medium grown dark brown shading and orange highlights. Foreground medium greens and blues. Rocks cold gray and black. Figures 4 and 5 The pieces making up this scene as well as the scene shown in fig. 6, are all identically the safe construction as fig. 1. The only difference being in the shape of the pieces and the number of pieces used. Construction pointers on the ship effect are found in the January 1 and April 23 issues of the Moving Picture World. The sun rings, the zig-zag lines on sky, are in tinsel or metallics, to catch and reflect the light from the flood in the lower right corner, as the sun is just below the horizon. Apply the tinsel or metallics to strips or bands of muslin and pin the vands on the sky drop. This will save repainting the drop. Do the water in vivid deep blue. The strip of beach is cream, almost white. Tree trunk is medium blue with bark deflations in turquoise blue. Foliage dark green outlined in bright light green. Greens and blues predom inate in the foreground, with patches, suggesting flowers, in yellow, pink, etc. Rocks light grey outlined in black. The above suggestions are for decorative treatment in masses of flat colors no blending, no shading, just even solid colors in masses with well defined outlines. FIGS. 6 and 7. This setting also features a beach which is, however, of an entirely different nature. The rose trellis, C, forms a frame for the beach vista. Here the rising moon is reflected in the water. A detailed description of this effect is found in the January 15 issue of the Moving Picture World. Making the moon stationary, instead of rising, simplifies the making of the effect. Reflections are produced by cutting horizontal slits in the water, under the moon. String tinsel horizontally in back of slits, place a light strip on the floor, under the tinsel, so that the light is reflected through the slits. Place a small fan so that the breeze will keep the tinsel in motion. Do water in deep blue. The beach in light grey. Shore formation and point jutting out into the sea are in medium blue, grey-green, lavender and dark gray ; high lights in deep cream. 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