Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000200
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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17 THE STAGE IS SET The preliminary preparations have been made. The first sets have been erected on a stage and are ready for actual production. The cameraman, the property man, the electrician, the sound engineer, and others have been preparing for the period of production in the same manner as the scenario writer, the director, the stars, the casting director, the art director, and the make-up expert. There is a great difference between the stages of today's talking picture era and those of the silent period of the cinema prior to 1927. Basically, stages are barnlike structures varying from one hundred to three hundred feet in length, and from fifty to a hundred feet in width. In exterior height they vary between forty and one hundred and ten feet. Externally, today they are made of stucco and cement which keep out sound. They are solid and substantial in appearance. In the days of silent pictures they were light wood or steel frame structures, the latter having either canvas or glass side walls. In the silent picture era it made no difference whether doors were open or shut. In summer, side walls were raised and the actors worked in the full view of those employed on the studio property. [164]