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Star-dust in Hollywood
book had to be an exact length. A director ordered to make a seven-reel film could not offer a six or eight-reeler. Often when the film has passed through the cutter's and the director's hands it is still too long. The good continuity-man ought to devise his scenes so that the finished film is an exact length,
but during the production other scenes may be inserted, or sometimes, in an uncanny way, as may happen to all artistic creation, the very work seems to take charge and run off with the makers.
In spite of a business-like surface, a very strange kind of incompetence is tolerated in Hollywood. The art is in many ways a ring, and once inside a man is fairly secure. The outsider must be twice as talented as the insider to push him from his job. So that often a quite the cutter notorious incompetence may be
tolerated. A well-known case was that of an author, experienced in movie work, who was commissioned to write a story for a seven-reel film. He made his own continuity, the filming of which consumed twenty reels of film. With the best will in the world, the director could not cut it down to an inch less than fifteen reels. At enormous expense another expert was hired who managed to cut it to twelve, but there it stuck. Finally the first author was called in again, was paid another big fee, and succeeded in reducing it to the stipulated length. He was hailed as a saviour instead of being cursed in the first place as an incompetent.
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