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If there existed ciety
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Machine-made Photoplays, that clever French produi it. Abel l ■ Aould
liable to ''ion. De
thorough in his methods, he has put behind him i i ing a movie studio into a film fac
tory. He refuses to work with a watch in om and a ready-reckoner in the other. He is not out to .: rime, but to make better pictun Abel Gance has been working for twelve months on luction, The Who-!, and you will a
■ irted out to make a railway
ture entitled Rose of the Rail, but a. the story
unfler hi tion, the wheel of the rail
metamorphosed into the Wheel of
the plol ' lK' i:m'" lha1
nadc i! i a1 N,r< ■ where
Mi ' dented company ol
the populai British
in /' I. " \\\ will givi them a ■'■ • '" lllt'
•' Give me a tew tons ol salt and I'll bring the mountain to the movies." says the modern Mahomet. But Abel Gance, producer of " J'Accuse," is a stickler tor realism, and so he transported his entire company to Mont Blanc to secure some wonderful mountain scenes tor his latest picture, "The Wheel.
little loveM little laughter, a littl
and a little sorrow. Read m ! Camera ! Go ! " And so they started. A CO pletely equipped movie st»
built alongside t way, and day and n many active months the producer and his play worked in the heart of train-land.
It was hard work, for there wt to bi me. In the first place, Iv\
irtiste in the cast, was unable I a w
1, ; whilst Abel ' i knew n< 1
tin stumbling-block was soon removed.
invented to the em,
language, half-French and half-English, ' It >ou complicated, I know ; but it isn
• d we managed beautifully." sa> * Ivy <
Then tl "< N,,t ""' K°:U
metaphor, but i ■"' of flesh and blood.
, commenced # his screen career by eatmi | the scenario of the picture in which he then the l»i* P01
was susp pioon be< i
I f()und him supping off one of
Bu1 the Coat, being an exrelleti
, humoured like the other plaj