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Interesting Facts About Films
Whereas agents generally charge artists lo per cent for engagements, the Central Casting Bureau in America renders its services free and does 98 per cent of Hollywood's crowd casting.
ViTAGRAPii, Edison, Biograph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Pathe-Freres, and Melies combined in 1909 and became known as the Motion Picture Patents Company ; its object was to fight infringement of its patent rights.
Roy McCardel was the first American newspaper reporter to adopt scenario writing as a profession. He began with the Biograph Company at the then princely salary of £zo per week.
Several passenger planes in America are equipped with a cinemaprojector which shows 16 mm. films regularly during trans-continental flights.
Songs and theme music are selected at Universal by a special committee, consisting of one member from each department in the studios.
Two thousand people are continuously emploj'ed at Universal City.
When talkies first became popular the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences instituted a sound class which was attended by many famous
directors, technicians and cameramen anxious to learn about the new medium.
Employees at Universal City have their own amateur dramatic society.
The studio make-up expert invariably touches up the stars' faces after every shot.
Several propaganda films were made by the British Government during the War, among them being Eat Less Bread, featuring Norman McKinnell.
The five most remunerative films in Great Britain in 1931 were : Africa Speaks, Plunder, Hell's Angels, One Heavenly Night, Trader Horn.
Columbia Pictures are released by United Artists.
British Movietone News is released by Fox.
Ideal Cinemagazine, edited by Andrew Buchanan, is released by Ideal.
If the fifty-six films directed by Cecil B. de Mille were placed end to end they would encircle the world and leave a good length over.
At the First National Vitaphone studios in Burbank all cameramen and property men must undergo tests for colour blindness before being assigned to work on a Technicolor film.