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CHAPTER IX
COMMENTS ON PRODUCTION
In the preceding chapter, on the Studio, I deliberately reduced comment to a minimum in the effort to present the technical features with rigid adherence to clarity. If I have succeeded in that attempt the reader possesses a definite and ordered conception of the structure and the machines of the creative workshop. For this very reason, however, the chapter gave none of those side lights of opinion and experience which might have amounted to digressions. In rendering the account of a new phenomenon one is often at a loss to decide what place to assign to the thing itself and what to the human reaction toward it.
At any rate, with the exposition proper behind me, I can safely turn to a miscellany of considerations relative to production which have an interest of their own. Some of these are in the nature of history, some are descriptive, some hortatory. All are observations, conclusions, confidences shared rather generally by active leaders of our craft. In a way, then, they constitute information; for they tend to indicate the human response of the industry toward the innovation, its difficulties, its gradual evolution. Certain of their interest in print, because they already have aroused interest in the trade, I gather these sundries of record, debate, and conclusion into the present chapter and offer them with the assurance that they will throw light from many angles on the complex institution we call production.
Although the production branches of the motion picture
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