When the movies were young (1925)

Record Details:

Title:
When the movies were young
Date:
1925
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
Volume:
When the movies were young
Leaf #:
00050
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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28 When the Movies were Young ing, he would lie in bed and work out plots for dramas, scene bits, or even mechanical ideas. After an hour of apparent semi-consciousness, his head motionless on the pillow, he would greet the day with "I hate to see her die in the third act"; or, "I wonder if that meat dish could be canned!" meaning, could a dish he had invented and cooked — a triumph of culinary art — be made a commercial proposition as a tinned food, like Armour's or Van Camp's beans and corned beef. Pretty good field of activity, canned eats, and might have made David W. Griffith more money than canned drama !