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Motion Fictnre Research
One might conceivably get by with an error in the novel Gone with the Wind, reaching one million five hundred thousand readers — but who would dare to present the smallest inaccuracy before the audience of one hundred million the picture will have in its first weeks in film form.
When theatregoers gleefully rush into print with a cinematic error, they are more often wrong than right ! No less than a dozen persons wrote the studio about a "letter box" on the gate of the cottage at Blunderstone in David Copperfield. They pointed out that letter boxes did not exist at the time. But they only thought the object was a letter box. It was really an oldfashioned candle lantern, quite true to the period.
Letters were received from Britishers saying that they had never seen a telephone like that used in What Every Woman Knows. The telephone had been bought in England and imported from there.
The research department keeps itself informed of the foreign and historical material in the studio's own film library which will be discussed at length later. In one large studio it includes sixty million feet of film and covers almost every important world event since 1906.
Important, too, is the ability of a research director to find quickly men and women who are experts in some special phase of human experience.
A Chinese general is available for Oriental lore.
A quiet-mannered Austrian nobleman is called in for conference for pictures concerned with Middle Europe during the past thirty years. When he was a boy, he was a page in the court of Emperor Francis Joseph.
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