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10. Did women or men first wear gloves. Ans. Men, 2400 years ago; women not until 1300 a.d.
11. What was a "yellow dog"? Ans. A slang term used for a gold coin about 1870.
1 2 . What sauce did Giovanni Galeazzo Visconti serve with chicken in 1378? Ans. This fourteenth-century gourmet had his chicken served with a sauce made of violets. The account of the Gargantuan banquet offered by Visconti to his friends provided authentic details, even recipes, which guided reproduction of the banquet of the Capulets in Romeo and Juliet.
The answers to these questions reflect a great deal of hard, concentrated mental work. Without a capable and specially trained research department, no sound attempt at the authentic reproduction of manners, customs, and actual environment of other periods could be achieved by any film studio. It is impossible to overestimate the importance to modern motion picture making of correct and accurate research. It is one of the most vital activities in a studio.
Scholarly and exact research into manners and customs of all periods, races, and geographical locations is an integral part of modern motion picture making. The "dear old days" of the film, say of 1908, when nobody bothered much because a girl of the Civil War period wore a blouse, era of 1900, are gone forever. With the growth of the picture audience millions of critical eyes were focused on every detail.
For this reason every modern studio has its own large research department, headed by a well-paid, highly com
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