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A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF
NINE DAYS A QUEEN
(THE STORY OF LADY JANE GREY)
WHY NINE DAYS A QUEEN IS NOT A CONVENTIONAL PHOTOPLAY
The Views of Director Robert Stevenson
[Recently, in a visit to the gaumont-british studios in England, Dr. William Lewin had the\ 'privilege of a lengthy interview with Robert Stevenson, director of Nine Days a Queen.
The views that Mr. Stevenson developed in his conversation with Br. Lewin' se&med to the latter so significant and unusual that he thought it would be of great interest to students of Nine Days a Queen to have a version of them. The following presents this version, which may well be made a basis for discussion, not only in relation to Nine Days a Queen but other plays of historical content as well]
It seems to Mr. Stevenson that the most interesting approach to Nine Days a Queen is that the picture is an experimental one, and that the student who analyzes it should observe for himself certain important novelties and innovations in the technique of the photoplay.
The picture is experimental because it was made by a group of young people who had had some training in the cinema, but who were, many of them, having their first big chance. The average age of those in the Unit was about thirty. Mr. Stevenson himself is only thirty-one, and this was the first picture he had directed on his own.
As a result, this picture is somewhat revolutionary in character. It breaks many so-called rules, which this younger generation of picture-makers believes to be only conventions. Among them are :
1. The convention that a film must revolve about two or three stars, with other characters serving only as an unimportant background. In Nine Days a Queen there are at least eight leading