Talking pictures : how they are made, how to appreciate them (c. 1937)

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Talking Pictures Dennys, going back several generations, all say that "properties" had been in use long before the birth of their earliest acting ancestor. Large and important as property departments have grown in the legitimate theatre, these are dwarfed by the property warehouses maintained by the larger studios. One ordinarily good-sized studio property department has an inventory of 350,000 articles, ranging from pins to Louis Quinze furniture, and from the mortgage on the old family homestead to a washtub of the 1880 era. It has been indicated that technicians, interior decorators, and others deal with a wide variety of objects. To give any particular setting an authentic atmosphere, they must have a large central storehouse from which they may draw. A description of one of these storehouses will aid those seriously striving to learn standards by which to evaluate accurately a good motion picture. Mistakes in atmospheric properties do more to destroy or to impair an illusion than perhaps any other single error which might be committed. It is obvious that it would be fatal to put a mailbox on a street corner built for a period twenty years before box collection was introduced. And matches can scarcely be used in a setting dated for a time previous to the invention of this important necessity of modern life. To avoid mistakes correct properties must first be found; then used properly. The property department focuses upon itself the careful attention of several other departments. The property [ 10a ]