El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-13

that has escaped the eye of the busy
director, but a real box OF real DreaA-
fast food leans against the real coon7
ter There, I'm wide hats, Ilannel
shirts. and leather breecnes, made
up with fearsOme mustaches ana par
rels of grease paint, ar a dozen IRON
tiersmen-as true to life as the lIn-
aginatiOn of New YORK Ineatflcal
manager can make them
And there also is the william with
sleek leather puttees and WaAed mus
taches, tempting the beautiful girl
of the golden west with a present OF
a silver mounted riding crop 1t mat
tiers little that the silver was applied
to the riding crop from can or aIu-
minum paint after all the rest OF the
scene was set 1t is all the same In
the picture. A burly Westerner with
cockney accent rides furiously UP
to the door on a brOnchO, but lately
graduated from a butchers cart, ana
throws the mailbags into the room
Lines Spoken to Get Lip Motion.
There are lines TO be said and they
are spoken just as If there were a
thousand people in front instead Of
only the stage director, the camera
man and you The scene is rehearsed
over and over again and, finally when
every man knows his parL-not only
the words to be spoken but the
steps to be taken, the gestures to be
made, and the facial expressions to
be accentuated, the director nods 10
the camera man. the actors again 60
through with their parts, the camera
man turns the crank, and in the space
Of two minutes part OF film Tor a
great western drama has been made
The Mimic Gold sIine.
Then. still in wide hats, leather
breeches and grease paint the actors
all file out into the street followed
Nv the director and the camera man,
and pile into two huge sightseeing
automobiles. The procession moves or
toward the setting SUM- and ha1Is pc
side a driveway in Van Cortland park
The climb to the top of knoll; then
is discovered a real, sure-enough, 1oE
truly gold mine carefully placed
there an hour before by property
man. And here again the actors re-
finally the camera man turns Lne
crank. Another 100 feet Of film Tor
another great western drama and an
within the hearing Of the ghost OF
Deidrich Knickerbocker.
In other ways than by the mere
absence Of boxes, paruuet, balcony ana
gallery. does this three-srage InealeI
In the Bronx differ from the ordinary
theater where living actors play ueau
parts. The stage, as the speclaLoI
knows it, is wider at the foot ugnls
than at the backdrOp- in the moving
picture studio, the perspective DelnS
reversed the stage is narrow at Lne
front and wide at the back Inc ACTOR Z
in the western drama W ere AAt- ---
point Of fact in the room or the gen
eraI store with its real bacon ana
real brea kfast food, but were some 1U
or Is feet in front OF IL, the stage
setting being only the Dackgr oullu-
Chalk lines were drawn on the LlOOll
converting at the camera mouth, ana
woe be unto that actor so careless OF
so luckless as to step OUTSIDE OF lAess
cOnverging lines and thus get out OF
the picture. In the ordinary moving
-f-Arr-a r7a- awo1nr fu the great spec
tacular pictures, the action taxes place
in q space Of not wider than elsn
feet and in the picture, detail rarely
noticed by the spectator, the play eIa
are all cut off at the knees
In this particular studio rive IselS
are produced each week each reel
averaging not less than 10 sep5taLe
scenes. Here the actors Work from
sun to sun and the click or the cam
era crank is never STILL
Have Companies on Road.
While the greater part OF the film
producing business is carried on IN
the METROPOLITAN studios and in nearby
marks and residential districts, all the
larger COMPANIES maintain road com
uanies as well. Several concerns nave
permanent studios at Los Angeles
where advantage is taken Of the sub
tropical scenery, the mountains ana
the sea Many Of the sOcalled west
ern" films are made In Arizona, Wy
oming. Colorado and Montana by rrav-
cling stock companies Other Amerl-
can stock companies have gone abroad
one concern to Cuba, another 20 Az
rlca, and so on One American com
pany desiring to 'fllm BouclcauLt
play Colleen BaWn,' sent special
company of actors and camera men %
Ireland to make the pictures IN the
actual setting Of the play the Lakes
Of Killarney
Tomorrow-1nracIes Of the Films.