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disciplined, and the whole is taken again.
How many times this is repeated only a
studio habitue realizes But it is all in
the game, and the producers patience Is
monumental.
Then there arc the other spectacular
scenes Of destruction and the like, scenes
that cannot be rehearsed because if there
is mistake costly rebuilding and time
TO renew is necessary. Even So there I
are some Of these which 60 aw1y and the |
work Of weeks has to be repeated, not /
to speak of the extra expense involved |
Conceive, then, the bedlam that must be
made lucid and the chaos that must be |
turned into order, and it is small won
| der that few there are who can survive
| this test of producing The film finished,
and the layman considers the task done
| Not by any manner of means. There
awaits for the producer his most difficult
task 1t is the cutting of his film,
the assembling and joining of the parts
that reveal his story with the consum-
mate effect that il is possible to produce
in the joined whole This is the real
scientific test, and to the producer, most
often heart-breaking one There are
filmed many times more feet Of film than
Ihe will actually use, and like the play
! wright who has written his hearts blood
Into his treasured lines only to have TO.
tear them out to sharpen action Of his
MAY, so must the producer cut out scenes
that in the taking brought lofty exulta-
ton in the considering of the effect that
they will produce
!, The actual filming Of The Birth Of a
Nation took nine months. The cutting
Of the film took three months Of pains
taking labor 10 cut And in this case
4 gust as the cutting of the film was com
pleted a FIRE came and burned up the en-
tire cut film. But that was an unusual
incident, and the extra three months to
cut a new film is not counted This in
outline relates what it means to produce
! a Photo-spectacle The hard work, the
trials and tremendous cost Of this first
f big picture are but happy ineidentals to
I Griffith for he is garnering the bounty
f yielded by the fruits Of his endeavors.
II There is a Marguerite Clark, IT., who
t has been adopted by Miss Cora Clark to
5 take the place of her sister, to whom she
5, has acted as a mother for many years.
t Now that Marguerite is happily married,
n with husband to care for her. Miss Cora
r Feels her duty IS done, and she is ready
IS and willing to give this attention to some
:. one else This time the protege is little
$ girl named Ameta Dorner and she looks
n exactly like Marguerite Clark She is SO
9 much her double. that she has appeared
2 in many pictures with the little actress
b Ann Little has again been chosen as
lie leading woman for Wallace Reid in many
i loi his latest productions
eel Charles Ray has begun work on base
4. ball picture which will be released thi.
ID spring and which will help revive inter
m est in the national sport for the boy,
1t who are coming home
$ Those warm Los Angeles Nights.
e Not many years ago Juanita Hansen, lin
Is star of the Sea Flower. was belle o
= Los Angeles high school. Overnight sh
threw aside the simple dimity frock o
a school girl to don the evening gown o
screen star.-Publicity.
Norma Talmadge is soon to make
Elimination of Eugene Walters's pla
co Nancy Lee.
Robert Warwick has signed with Part
~ mount Lasky corp.
Henry Walthals latest is The Boone
- ang, and Dustin Farnum is making II
first picture wherein he wears a full Dire,
suit, instead Of his customary cowbc
; toys.