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The interior decorator in a studio property department is one technician who requires no special training to succeed in a motion picture studio. In a film plant he performs the same function he would if he were called to approve the furnishings and decorations of a home. He has made himself an expert in furniture of all periods and all nations.
He is never mentioned in publicitv or advertising of a film, but if his touch were absent, the picture would suffer. Interior decorators in studios are not chosen until they have had vears of experience in private practice. Many of them were heads of interior-decoration departments in large furniture stores. One well-known interior decorator, after he retired from screen work, reopened a business he had once owned in Paris, France, and prospered in it until his death.
Perhaps the most interesting function of the interior decorator is his connection with antique furniture. Really authentic period furniture is invaluable. A particular piece may not be needed for vears, but when the decorator needs it, his need is intense. If it is not the property of the studio, he mav find it difficult to buy or to borrow.
One studio has eighteen hundred genuine antiques. If all the antiques in all the studios were to be assembled in one place, the collection would probably be the largest in the world. And to studios, with their expert buyers, such antique collections become profitable investments. The collection mentioned could be sold to collectors for five times its cost.
Very valuable are "consecutive collections." One
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