When the movies were young (1925)

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First Publicity and Early Scenarios 65 "How did you do it?" queried George Terwilliger. "Forty-five dollars for three stories, good Lord, and they gave you the money right off, like that." So Mr. Woods told his little story, and as the conversation ended, George Terwilliger reached for paper and pencil, for five-dollar bills were beckoning from every direction. Maybe he could put it over, too. He did — he sold lots and lots of "suggestions." Frank Woods wrote thirty movies for Biograph. Frank Woods now set about to criticise the pictures with the same seriousness with which he would have criticised the theater. He bought books about Indians and let the producers know there was a difference between the Hopi and the Apache and the Navajo. With a critical eye, he picked out errors and wrote of them frankly, and his influence in the betterment of the movies has been a bigger one than is generally known outside the movie world. Mr. Woods is really responsible for research. And Mr. Dougherty gives him credit for turning in the first "continuity." The picture that has that honor is a version of Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," called "After Many Years." Scenarios that reached the Biograph offices, due to lack of organization, were sometimes weeks in reaching the proper department, but Mr. Griffith got first chance at "After Many Years." Both he and Mr. Dougherty thought it pretty good stuff, but the obvious emotional acting that had prevailed somewhere in every picture so far, was here entirely lacking. Quiet suppressed emotion only, this one had. But Doc said he'd eat the positive if it wouldn't make a good picture. So it was purchased. But "After Many Years," although it had no "action," and some of us sat in the projection room at its first show