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Photoplay Magazine
Stone-man's sun-, and Ralph Lewis as Stoneman lived exactly up to what his personality promised when he was selected. And there were George Siegmann, the mulatto Lieutenant Governor, and Walter Long as the awful negro Gus, and Mary Alden, Stoneman's mulatto housekeeper.
"There has been question as to why I did not pick real negroes or mulattos for those three roles.
"That matter was given consideration, and on careful weighing of every detail concerned, the decision was to have no black blood among the principals; it was only in the legislative scene that negroes were used, and then only as 'extra people.'
"There were six weeks of rehearsals before we reallv began. 1 think it took something like six months to make the picture — that is. the actual photography ; but in all I put in a year and a half of work.
"It was a big venture in numbers at that time; I suppose from first to last we used from 30.000 to 35,000 people.
"That seemed immense at that era. but now. in the
piece we temporarily call 'The Mother and The Law,'
(Mr. Griffith's huge new feature, just completed.
and named "Intolerance") we have used since
a^l the first of January about fifteen thousand people
a month, (this statement was made in the latter
part of April) and I cannot see even the
beginning of the end as yet.
"With 'The Clansman' it was
Above, an unconventional camera Cooper, for instance, pastel of Blanche Sweet at the time I kept in the com she first came under Mr. Griffith's panv for all the direction atBiograph Fight, in -., , , one of the first Griffith close-ups.
months between the
idea that I might make the picture until the work began, because I knew she would be an exact 'Cameron' girl.
"Everyone of the cast proved to be exactly what was required.
"When I chose Lillian Gish as Stoneman's daughter, she seemed as ideal for the role as she actually proved herself to be in her acting. Mae Marsh had driven her quality so thoroughly into the estimation of the public in 'The Escape' that I felt absolutely sure of her results. It was the same witli Robert llarron ami Elmer Clifton, for