The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-16

administration buildings, cafe with a capacity of serving thousand people an hour; barber, manlcuring 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 a minutes notice, matter what nation the army is to represent Here too, will be found the dressing rooms of the five hundred players, the carpenter shop, scene painting studios and live mammoth stages with floor space equiva- lent to four acres. All buildings are 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 honest-tog good ness wildwest 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 one side will be coal mine, while few feet away is a reproduction from photographs of street scene in Cairo. Egypt. the Bowery of New York-possibly a typical Scotch scene the native huts of Ali rican savages. One of the sets, fifty to five hundred feet long is frequently erected at cost ofoseveral thousand dollars and torr down after the making of from to three hundred feet of film that will require to five minutes to show at the theater. It is very seldom that the setting is used in more than one production.
 The worlds greatest privately owned collection of wild animals is said to je that at the of the Seg 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 con- tains thirty-eght acres-thirty of which are taken up in animal houses and pens and beautiful lawns and groves. In all there seven hundred or more specimens, including fifty lions, a herd of elephants, Groves of ostrichs, scores of mon- keys, and many rare animals together with birds and reptiles from every part of the world. All are maintained for exclusive in motion pie lures, and that they may have homeke settings to work" in, duplicates of their native haunts have been built on the grounds each one strong ly inclosed to prevent escape, injuries or fatali ties to employees. Within the Selig 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- gether with scores of other great anima' pictures Here also was built and filmed the Alaskan v lage for The Spoilers adapted from the story by Rex Beach. of the two most profitable pictures made
 Mere than quarter of a 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 q tract of ground consisting of 1S,000 thirty miles southwest of Los Angeles where cattle raising has been conducted in connection with the making of mo- ton pictures. The reason for leasing this great tract was that the company originally intended making only western dramas Later othe- kinds of stories were filmed and recently the producing manager or director, Thomas H. Iuce, became one