Technique of the photoplay (1916)

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EXAMPLES OF FORM 397 ■moklzig Jaoket. She Is about to go upstairs with th* ooat h» hAi Just taken off whan "alte stops her with a smile, and takes the money from the Inner pocket of the ooat. Ha puts the money Into the pocket of hie smoking Jacket as Viola goes off upstairs with the ooat. Walte, still talking and oblivious of his wife's reticence, goes to the mantle-shelf for tls pips, whi-h he takes up. Blowlr* hard at It, he discovers that it Is choked and will not draw. Liying It back as something to ba olaansd later, he goes Into the dlnlng-roora. Mrs. Walte looks after hlia curiously, but does not follow. SCENE }Z - Walte's Dlolng-room. (Same «s So. 16) —Light from ths sitting-room doorway. Evening. Action - . - - Talte enters from the sitting-room, still talking over his shoulder to his wife. He goes to the shelf where soma of his pipes are, and reaches up for one. In taking a pipe down, hs jLDooks over the vase In which i£rs. Walte has hidden the stolen trinkets. "Oood Lord I What hove I done?" he exclaims, with an expression that almost indicates forebodings of bad luck on this eventful evening. Urs. Vaite, of vuam we have a glimpse through ths doorway, makes a step forward towards the dining-room, but shrinks back as she sees her husband bend down over the fragments of the vass. SCINE }} - Still Walte's Dining-room. This is a close view of "^aite bending down over the broken vase. Among the fragments of the china he discovers the stolen trinkets. He stares aghast for a moment. One by one he picks up the trinkets; then slowly rises. _^____ SCEHE i'* - Walte's sitting-room (Sams as So. "♦) Evening. Action - - . - Mrs. Walte is standing in abject terror. Walte enters from the dining-room with the trinkets In his hand. He has himself well under control and his horror Is more or less hidden under a patient and gentls surface manner. Hs holds out the trinkets towards i.ls wife. "Jfhere did these oome from?" he asks. Urs. Walte attempts some glib nnd artificial explanation, but falters under her husband's searching look, and stares at him piteously. "Uy dear," he says softly, "how could yout— How could you f" His reproach is harder for her than denunciation. With an agonized gesture she hurries away from him into the dining-room—while Walte stands staring with ths trinkets atill In his hands. li^_1 Examples of the Bannister Merwin form in which the rea- \. son behind the act determines the action rather than the rn'".;!n?rf u^'^n'!, '''■ '"°^'^'"e"t In the original script this material completely filled a page as did the succeeding example