The Photo-Play Journal (Jul 1919-Feb 1921)

56 Photo-Play Journal HIGH SCHOOL COURSE IN TWO YEARS You Want to Earn Big Money! And you will not be satisfied unlet* you earn steady promotion. But are you prepared for the job ahead of you? Do you measure up to the standard that insures success? For a more responsible position a fairly good education is necessary. To write a sensible business letter, to prepare estimates, to figure cost and to compute interest, you must have a certain amount of preparation. All this you must be able to do before you will earn promotion. Many business houses hire no men whose general knowledge is not equal to a high school course. Why? Because big business refuses to burden itself with men who are barred from promotion by the lack of elementary education. Can You Qualify for a Better Position? We have a plan whereby you can. We can give you a complete but simplified high school course in two years, giving you all the essentials that form the foundation of practical business. 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THE GREAT SCREEN SCHOOL {Continued from page 46) In the past few weeks at that studio many other interesting locales have been depicted, such as the art students quarters in Soho, London ; interiors at Monte Carlo, the interior of a palatial. English home, a typical New York actors' boarding house, a Chinese opium den, the interior of the editorial offices of a large daily newspaper and many others such as drawing rooms, bedrooms, ballrooms, etc. In the exterior lot there is also a perfect replica of a certain New York street in the tenement section. The number of people who would have had an insight into all these places, and the characters who people them, would be very small, were it not for motion pictures. How do the people act in the upper class society of England? What kind of people are there in Greenwich village society-, or in other parts of the world ? What are their characteristics, their customs, their manners, gestures, types, dispositions? How do diamond thieves operate in South Africa and how is opium smuggled from China? All these questions and many more are answered in the films. The regular motion picture spectator is becoming wise to the ways of the world. Rather a broad statement but one containing a great deal of truth. The rich man may tour his own country and go abroad to see the world ; the poor man needs only to see enough motion pictures to see the world well represented and depicted and to get as intimate an insight into humanity as the traveler. Few people perhaps realize the vast and varied amount of physical human effort and brain power expended in the production of a single picture. A good motion picture is a condensed but powerful dose of knowledge. The chemist may mix up a gallon of fluid, composed of many different ingredients and then condense it down to a very small quantity of a powerful, effective compound which contains all the potency of the original measure. The motion picture, in which weeks and often months of work and the combined efforts and brains of hundreds of people are expended is condensed down into a vehicle which consumes a little more than an hour's time, can be transported in small tin cans and disseminates, in this short time, all the forces which have been injected into it, and a goodly supply of this force is knowledge. It is not only the actors and director and cameraman who make a motion picture. They are backed up by a hundred various branches of industry. For the better edification of the public, a small smattering of the proceedings attendant to the filming of a motion picture at a studio are herewith submitted : First, there is the work of the author. The original, as a play, novel or story, may have consumed months of preparation. Then the scenarist takes the original and treats it for screen use. The casting director picks types who are best able to depict the various characterizations. 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