The Moving picture world (July 1923-August 1923)

Ten Commandments Scenes" Biggest Location Achievement Unusual Accessory for Universal An accessory of super quality and unusual sales value has been put out by Universal Pictures Figures furnished by the ac workers who had preceded the means of twenty big sand sleds. Corporation for "Merry Go counting department of the Lasky actors were included every type Three Cadillac cars provided fast Round," the Super Jewel which studio seem to substantiate Para of technical labor that goes to film transportation to and from has its premiere this week in the mount's statement that the or make up the population of a large the studio at Los Angeles. A car Rivoli Theatre. It is a set of lobby ganization and maintenance of city. There were carpenters, would leave Camp DeMille at 7 display cards printed in sepia rotoCamp Cecil B. DeMille, at plumbers, plasterers, hydraulic o'clock at night with the film shot gravure on gold. Guadalupe, Cal., and the erection engineers, telephone linesmen, that day, and would arrive at the By the unusual qualities of the there of the set used by Mr. electricians, stenographers, docDeMille for scenes for the Biblical tors, artists, architects, dressprologue of his production, "The makers, musicians and cooks. Ten Commandments," represented The camp comprised 550 sleepthe biggest single location feat ing tents, two huge mess tents, in the history of motion picture each with a capacity of 1,000 din production. This prologue, with its ancient setting and characters from Biblical history, serves to introduce the story which Jeanie MacPherson has written by way of application of the Ten Commandments to modern life. Two separate and distinct casts will be seen, one interpreting the prologue and the studio laboratory at midnight. At sepia and gold combination the 2 p. m. the next day the driver cards have the appearance of a would start back for Guadalupe flash or intermittent sign, with the developed film, arriving in time to show the film to Mr. DeMille and his assistants after dinner. The big set, representing the Hackathorne in Morris Film ers ; a big recreation tent for dancing and other amusements, four tents forming a camp hospital ancient walled city of Raamses, George Hackathorne, who did with a capacity of thirty patients, was 750 feet wide and 109 feet suc,'' exceI wo^k as the cripple in charge of a U. S. Army med high. It was probably the largest ical officer with two soldier as ever constructed for a motion pic sistants and a civilian doctor with ture and was approached by an four assistants; twelve tents for avenue of twenty-four Sphinxes, wardrobe and property use, and each of which weighed nearly four a separate unit of twenty tents tons. This avenue was designed other the main story. Those who for the guards of the animal cor by and built under the direction , are featured are Theodore Rob rals. of Paul Iribe, Mr. DeMille's art !?f en , S'veKn to Marm°nt the erts, Leatrice Joy, Richard Dix, Complete telephone and electric director. To make the huge set Mark ^abre ot it Winter Lomes. Nita Naldi, Charles de Roche, Es light systems had been provided, required 55,000 feet of lumber telle Taylor, Rod La Rocque, Julia the connections being made at (enough to build fifty ordinary five Faye, James Neill and Edythe Guadalupe, four miles distant, room bungalows), 300 tons of plas Chapman. Five miles of wooden sidewalks ter, 25,000 pounds of nails and 75 'The Village Blacksmith," has been added to the cast of the William Fox production of the Gouverneur Morris story, "You Can't Get Away With It." He plays Charles Hemingway, Jr., son of the character in the story that has Arliss Ends Work in Coming Film Guadalupe is approximately 200 had been laid. Water had been miles from Los Angeles, and the brought one mile by means of task which confronted the studio the camp pumping system, which organization was that of trans consisted of two pumps with S porting to the location 2,500 peo capacity of 100 gallons a minute pie and more than 3,000 animals, and four tanks which provided including 900 horses, thirty camels, 36,000 gallons of water daily. miles of cable and wire for bracing. Four enormous statues of Pharaoh decorated the entrance George Arliss has finished his work in the Distinctive Pictures melodrama, "The Green Goddess," but Alice Joyce, David Powell, to the walled city. Each of these and Harry Morey still have a week was thirty-five feet high. To or so to go. Miss Joyce, Powell, build them and the sphinxes took and Morey are working on a Vitagraph at Work on "Pioneer Trails" 200 burros and hundreds of sheep, Thirty shower baths had been fifteen tons of modelling clay and harem scene, for which a magnifi goats, cows, oxen, chickens, ducks, provided for the men and twenty 100 tons of plaster. cent set has been erected. guinea hens and dogs, and there four for the women. There maintaining them for a period of were 2,500 cots and as many mattwo weeks. The area utilized tresses and pillows, requiring covered twenty-four square miles more than 30,000 blankets, sheets of rolling sand dunes. and pillow slips. An idea of the Three hundred and fifty carpen magnitude of the task which conters, plasterers and other crafts fronted the commissary departmen on April 27 started construe ment may be gained from the tion of the camp and the set, which fact that it had to take care of Work is progressing rapidly on Nelson McDowell, W. J. Dyer and represented the ancient city of more than three times as many "Pioneer Trails," the Western Joe Rickson. Rameses, which Pharoah Rameses people as the largest traveling cir special being directed by David Director Smith's desire to have II forced the children of Israel to cus. Smith at Vitagraph studios in Hoi the early West accurately and build to his glory. The entire Thirty-three thousand yards of lywood. This thrilling story of realistically shown in "Pioneer job was finished and the filming cloth were required for the cos the days when the first transcon Trails" led to the employment of of the picture was started on May tumes, which numbered more tinental railroads were being built one of the oldest scouts now liv27. The scenes were completed than 3,000, and $18,000 worth of to carry civilization to prairie and ing, "Pop" King, who crossed the June 10, when the entire company special harness of ancient design mountain has a cast of exceptional prairie when he was seventeen, returned to Los Angeles. had to be made. Transportation quality — Cullen Landis, Alice Cal King is 91 years old and the deTwo special trains were re over the heavy sand, where motors houn, Bertram Grassby, Otis Har scriptions he gave Director Smith quired for the transportation of and horse wagons were out of the lan, Dwight Crittenden, Virginia of his personal experiences were the people. Among the camp question, was accomplished by True Boardman, Aggie Herring, of invaluable aid. lERBOGRAP TRADE MARK RIG . M S. PAT OFF/ MOTION PICTURE DEVELOPING AND PRINTING TELEPHONE AUDUBON 3716 203 Tp 211 W. 146 T* St., New York City