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It's the Little Things that Count.
Waterloo, some ten or twelve njotoths after her death.
After seeing films like the above 1 can quite believe the story of the film producer who, discussing a film he was at work on, said that he " thought of getting that German fellow Wagner to do some special music for it," and I am quite prepared to see a film in which Drake is shown playing bowls with Nelson and Blake looking on.
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"t rifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle," said the great painter, but the modern picture maker's version seems to be " A trifle is a trifle and nothing else. Let us have a wellknown star in the lead and a lot of spectacles and then let the details go." Thus we find film after film a mass of errors. Queen Anne chairs are used by Elizabeth, the " Laughing Cavalier " adorns the walls of a house a century before its painter's birth and so on. Perhaps the average " fan " is more concerned with the exact colour of Conrad Nagel's eyes and the details of Matheson Lang's matrimonial ventures, but there are quite a lot of picturegoers whose entertainment is quite spoiled by these trivial anachronisms.
Most of these errors could be avoided by referring to the most com mon books. If the producer of The Ten Commandments had looked at the Book of Exodus for a moment he would not, I hope, have made Miriam a girl of twenty while her brother Moses, who was some years her junior, appeared as an old man of seventy or eighty.
A glance at a history of France would have improved A Royal Divorce by preventing Josephine from visiting Napoleon on the eve of
Above : Conrad Xagel and his daughter. Left : E s I e 1 1 c Taylor as ''Miriam.'' B c loiv : " Napoleon " and " Josephine," in " A Royal Divorce."
shingled hair in 1914, and in another, the action of which took place in London, one of the characters gave a pageboy a dollar bill. It seems a pity that men who are ignorant of the forms of currency in the chief countries of the world should be in a position to spend a million dollars on one production and to use members of the British Army as escorts.
In Harold Lloyd's Girl Shy the heroine was to be married on the 19th «i the month, yet a letter received by Harold on the day of the ceremony is dated the 29th.
A recent German film The Last Laugh told the story of how a waiter at a very large hotel came into a fortune and proceeded to buy a large house with a huge staff. He was shown dining in an ill-fitting evening dress and eating with his fingers. It is true that the sight of people eating in a disgusting manner is sure of a hearty welcome from many present day audiences, but surely the producer need not have used for the purpose a man whose knowledge of the correct way of eating would be perfect.
Something will have to be done before long. Film fans grow more and more critical, and public opinion, which has already insisted on the replacing of the old five reel " drama " by films of the Captain Blood and Scaramouchc class, will one day see to it that producers pay more attention to details. Rorert McKown.