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Talking Pictures
Every point that failed at the first preview "rang the bell" decisively at the second. It moved with an unbroken mounting crescendo to its climax, and it won for Miss Hayes the feminine acting award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
An amusing happening illustrates the change brought about by retakes. One motion picture magazine reviewed The Sin of Madelon Claudet as given at the first preview, but not the second. Another magazine had. a critic at both previews, and printed only a review of the final showing. Magazine number one characterized the picture as the "worst" of the month. Magazine number two acclaimed it as the "best picture of the year." And both reviews were right!
There may be other theatre previews to settle minor points or to introduce the picture to the press, but the first sneak showing is the most important from the standpoint of the film editor. It brings his work to a head. From here on, speed is an essential, for money is being lost every day that a picture costing a million dollars or more is kept from the theatres.
When editing is completed, the work print, made from the selected positive prints from the total of scenes photographed, is sent to the negative editors. There a negative is assembled, matching scene for scene, the work print, which through all the vicissitudes of previews, retakes, and editing, has come down to final approval by the producers.
Now the production is ready for the laboratory which will use the negative to reproduce separate release prints furnished to theatres for exhibition purposes.
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