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Observations of a Lesser Light of Filmdom
r^O any new comer who is thinking of entering the business,
I would say be prepared to overcome many obstacles and
think a long time before embarking on a Picture Career, for it is not a life of honey, peaches and cream by any means. Be prepared to spend about six months on the average getting acquainted and established — time depending on one's personality and ambition. A good wardrobe is a very important item in working on select "atmosphere" sets. There are really 200 to 300 people who can be called of the available well dressed class for sets of every description, paying at least $7.50 and occasionally S10.00 per day and that class is established, usually works thru one central principal agency and they are really making a fair living all year around in the Picture Business. It is very, very seldom that a future star or success is picked from an atmosphere set. One must find time to ask for and take screen tests. As often as possible, one has to meet the right people and one must principally have a good business head and ability to sell themselves. Being able to sell oneself will do more than anything else other than personal acquaintance to get one on the road to success, I think.
The average extra person working in the 300 refined class, who has been working for a year or more, usually gets into a rut and is too easily contented to go on taking extra work and being satisfied ; usually losing what ambition they had when first starting out.
Many a capable, talented, and good looking extra person who has been deserving an opportunity has not had it and been kept at extra work because usually the Casting Director or Director is skeptical and reluctant to gamble with a person who has been associated with extra work too long, and, strangely, very often would rather take a person of practically no experience at all.
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