Picturegoer (1921)

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2.2 & PICTJREGOE-R i/A'e MOVIES AND MOUN 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