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"Pippa Passes" Filmed 129
feature — one thousand feet being the length of our features at this time. Bitzer didn't think much of the idea, but Arthur Marvin, who had seen his chief's radical ideas worked out successfully before, was less inclined to skepticism. But response, on the whole, was rather snippy. While David would have preferred a heartier appreciation, he would not be deterred, and he spoke in rather plain words: "Well, come on, let's do it anyhow; I don't give a damn what anybody thinks about it."
Pippa is asleep in her little bed. The dawn is coming — a tense moment — for Pippa must wake, sit up in her little bed, rise, cross to the window, and greet the dawn in perfect harmony with the mechanical force operating the sliding board and the Kleigs. All was manipulated in perfect tempo.
The skeptical studio bunch remained stubborn until the first projection of the picture upstairs. At first the comments came in hushed and awed tones, and then when the showing was over, the little experiment in light effects was greeted with uncontrolled enthusiasm.
"Pippa Passes" was released on October 4, 1909, a day of great anxiety. We felt pretty sure it was good stuff, but we were wholly unprepared for what was to happen. On the morning of October 10th, while we were scanning the news items in the columns of the New York Times, the while we imbibed our breakfast coffee, our unbelieving eyes were greeted with a column headlined thus:
BROWNING NOW GIVEN IN MOVING PICTURES
"Pippa Passes" the Lastest Play
Without Words to be Seen
In the Nickelodeons