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10 THE STUDIO in Plorida and California, where tliere is generally good sunlight and where the temperature permits work in the open the entire year. 5. Studios are provided with carpenter shops and paint frames for the purpose of making scenery, for the scenes must be constantly changed or painted over to provide against sameness. The scenes are made of muslin stretched on light wooden frames and painted in water color. As a rule a small set is about foinrteen feet high, so the flats or pieces of scenery are of that height and three to ten feet wide, that they may be handled by one man. The setting is built up of these pieces fastened together. Some of the flats may contain open- ings for doors or windows and some have the half of an arch or curtained doorway. Doors and windows are set into the openings and are not the painted affairs that were once considered good enough, but are solid in construction. Generally the doors come in pairs, one opening right handed and the other the reverse so that either may be used. 6. Scenes are not set up as they are in the theatre. It is seldom that more than two sides of a room are shown in a photoplay except in large built-up sets. More often there is shown only the back and a portion of one side or even a straight flat showing one side of a hall. As the flats are of different sizes, it is possible to vary the form of the set. One may show a straight right-angle corner and another, made with the same material, may be broken up with a jog or small piece set in to avoid a sameness of outline. Stairways are provided for hall settings, and some, but not many, stages are trapped, or provided with sectional floor that may be taken up when it is desired to show a descending stair. Generally this sectional floor covers a concrete tank that may be filled with water if desired, giving a double use. 7. Scenes are set up from plots or diagrams; rough outlines or finished scale drawings of the floor plan showing how the flats are to be angled. In some studios architect's scale paper is used for all plots and this may be printed up with the camera angle. 8. Most persons are familiar with the principle in optics that the curvature of the surface of a lens determines the angle of its ray. In other words the lens collects the light rays in the form of a cone which terminates in a point at the optical centre of the lens com- bination and gains in diameter with distance from this point in proportion to the angle of the lens, a wide angle lens increasing the diameter of this cone more rapidly than one with a narrow angle. All that is found within this imaginary cone will be registered on the film and constitutes the stage. It follows that the stage widens as the distance from the camera is increased in proportion to the angle of the lens used in the camera. It is customary to mark this angle with chalk marks, cord or strips of wood to show the player just what portion of the full stage will be included in the picture. These are known as the lines. At the front, generally at such a distance from the camera that the space included is about