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Hollywood — The ^Artist of the Film
istic of Hollywood, making elaborate models also of savages in canoes, palms, shaded shores, and so on. The cost of this miniature with explosion complete ran into some hundreds of pounds. With careful lighting the illusion to the artist's mind seemed complete, but the director remained unsatisfied. " Nature!" he cried. So, the hundreds thrown down the waste-pipe, the real hulk, at the expense of some thousands, was towed out to Santa Catalina Island, to be sunk in the face of Nature.
" Now," explained the director to the explosion contractors, " you must understand exactly how this sinking has to be. I want a fine dramatic explosion, and then the hulk has to sink slowly by the head, and at the last moment she must kick up her stern and take a long dive under the surface. Got that? "
I suppose by this time the experts had realized that it was little use arguing with directors ; in Hollywood even Nature has to obey orders, even if the director seemed ignorant that wooden hulks, however shattered, do not sink dramatically by the head, such being the prerogative of the iron ship. A second obstacle in the way of carrying out his wishes was the Government regulation which ordered that every piece of sunken derelict had to be subsequently fished up and carted away, a job that would have made a fine gap in the contractor's profits.
However, the hulk was packed with explosives ; the camera and arc-lights were focused on it ; the signal was given, and m [177]