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Motion Picture Appreciation
were playing a love scene. She tripped over the long, writhing wire, and every light on the stage went out!
One day, on a Marx Brothers set, a vigilant assistant director noted a visitor, a prominent, dignified banker, obviously about to break into a loud guffaw while the cameras were turning, while the recording microphone was "alive." The assistant director quickly stuck his right hand into the man's mouth and wound the left arm tightly around his throat. When the scene was over, there was not a thing the banker could say in protest. The assistant director was completely within his rights.
Such incidents, threatening thousands of dollars of waste in lost time, have made it necessary for the film men to close their sets to all except those who have actual business there, those trained to strict production discipline.
In Hollywood we shall meet scores and scores of interesting studio folk of whose existence few have ever dreamed. We shall chat with girls who have nothing to do but see ten complete motion pictures each day! We shall be told of a man with rubber clothes who takes a huge fortune in silver every year from dirty developing fluid. We shall meet a man so deft with powder, with dynamite, that he can blow a wall from behind an actor on a set and not disturb the crease of his trousers or the flounces on an actress' dress. We shall find most interesting the job of a woman whose duty it is to tell to just one dozen men the three hundred stories written each year which she considers most adaptable to the motion picture form.
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