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

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MOSTLY ABOUT SCENARIOS {Continued from page 7) my story and which will be released in the fall. In short — I cannot point out too strongly the fact that the world is full of scenario material. Almost everyone of us has some incident in his own life or at least some happening of which he knows intimately that will make a motion picture story far more thrilling and dramatic than any purely imaginative yarn. Get them down on paper — keep on writing and rewriting them, and you will find that such stories based on occurrences of which you are thoroughly familiar and placed in circumstances and surroundings that are within your own personal, positive knowledge will make scenarios that motion picture producers will be glad to accept. We are all interested in our own lives and the happenings which we can appreciate because they might have fallen to our lot or to those whom we hold dear — make scenarios out of such stories and vou are a surefire success. THE GREAT SCREEN SCHOOL {Continued from page 56) lightings. Expert designers model costly new and original gowns for the feminine players. Camouflage artists develop effects denoting the period, whether it be ancient or modern. Trained musicians provide music suitable to the nature of the scene, thus enabling the players to get the utmost out of their work. After the actual filming is finished, title experts spend weeks titling the picture, skilled artists create effective backgrounds for the titles, the film is tinted and colored by special artists, laboratory experts work night and day to get the best possible results in printing. These are not all. To mention every step in the production of a picture, from the time of the beginning of the story to its final release, would fill several pages. A good illustration which definitely proves the value of motion pictures as a disseminator of knowledge was recently provided by the remark of a spectator during a preview of "Crooked Streets," Ethel Clayton's latest Paramount Artcraft starring vehicle. Most of the scenes in that picture are laid in Shanghai, China, and one scene flashed on the screen showed a view of one of the main gates of the Great Chinese wall. Before the appearance of the title establishing the fact that this was the gate in question, one of the spectators remarked : "Why that's one of the gates of the Great Wall. I have seen it before in motion pictures !" The number so well acquainted with this historic spot would be very small had it not been for motion pictures. This is only one example out of thousands. Thus it cannot be denied that motion pictures are a powerful and potent factor in education, and that since their beginning the world is much the wiser and as time goes on will be much more the wiser. 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