The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-03-10

administration buildings a cafe with a capacity
of serving one thousand people hour; barber.
manicurng, hair dressing and photography
shops; the laboratories. where all film is de-
veloped and positive print made; wardrobe
department, where clothing for army can be
had at minutes notice, no matter what nation
the army is to represent. Here. too will be found
the dressing rooms of the five hundred players,
the carpenter shop, painting studios and
five mammoth stages with floor space equiva-
lent to four acres. All buildings OF concrete
and steel Beyond the foothills other stages
and the ZOO which contains approximately two
hundred wild animals trained to work in pictures.
Across the road from this is an honestto-good-
midwest horse and cattle corral and bunk
houses for the cowboys. The big grounds are
dotted at all times with settings built for this or
that production. On side will be a coal
mine, while few feet away is a reproduction
from photographs OF a street scene in Cairo,
Egypt the Bowery of New York-possbly
typical Scotch the native huts of AZ
rican savages. One of the Sc sets. fifty to Ave
hundred feet long is frequently erected at a cost
of several thousand dollars and tori down after
the making OF from to three hundred feet Of
film that will require one to five minutes to show
at the theater. 1t is very seldom that the same
setting is used in more than production.
The worlds greatest privately owned collection
Of wild animals is said to ',e that at the OF
the Selig company. located public park
on historic Mission road. leading into Los Ange-
les from the famous San Gabriel missions.
This big show place. built at expense OF
more than two hundred thousand dollars
tains thirtyeight accessibility of which taken
up in animal houses and pens and beautiful lawns
and groves In all there hundred
or more specimens. including fifty lions herd
Of elephants, droves of ostrchs OF
keys and many rare animals, together with birds
and reptiles from every part of the world. All
are maintained for exclusive in motion pic
lures. and that they may have homelike settings
to work in, duplicates OF their native haunts
have been built on the grounds, each strong
ly inclosed to prevent escape, injuries fatal
ties to employees. Within the Seg ZOO were
made all scenes for the fifteen episodes of the
first serial motion picture. The Adventures of
Kathlyn. which had East India locale. to-
Here also was built and filmed the Alaskan vii
lage for The Spoilers" adapted from the story
by Rex Beach, one OF the two most profitable
pictures made
More than quarter of million dollars is
being spent in the building of mammoth studio
at Culver City, suburb of Los Angeles BY the
New York Motion Picture corporation Since
1910 this company has leased a tract Of ground
consisting OF $4,000 acres thirty miles southwes
of Los Angeles where cattle raising has been
conducted in connection with the making OF mo-
tion pictures. The reason for leasing this great
tract was that the company originally intended
making only western dramas. Later Other kinds
Of stories were filmed, and recently the producing
manager or director. Thomas H. Ince became one