New Britain herald., 1922-10-26
MOVIES DISCUSSED
 BY W|NCHELL SMITH
Noted Playwright Addresses
 Brotherhood Club

Winehel smith, of Pennington, au- thor of "Brewster's Millions" The Fortune Hunter" and other we'll known plays including "Lightnin.' which he wrote from Frank Bacon's Idea at the suggestion of the latter. addressed about 100 members and guests of the Brotherhood club of the South church last evening on the Making of the Moving Picture Mir Smiths description of the elaborate mechanics of the picture making inn pressed the hearers as his anecdotes amused them He closed his talk ef- Actively by q dramatic account of the witnessing of q moving picture in which they had taken part, by the Navajo Indians on their own reserva- ton.
 At the dinner given by the club at 6:3o the guests were entertained by the Piedmont College quartet, from South Carolina with folk songs MT Smith. introduced by President David Manning of the Brotherhood, began his talk by expressing gracefully his enjoyment of a former gathering of the sort and his pleasure in being in vited to speak to the club again.
 Tells of Picture Mechanics
 Using his own picture, The Sap head" which cost s13s,o0o TO produce, as the basis of Illustration, MT. Smith explained that there were some 356 different scenes shot in a feature picture. which might require any where from 30 to over a 100 different 'locations" or "sets." The first steps in the making of a movie is selection of the story, giving 1t to scenario writer, selection of director and cast and other details requiring much time and thought until the first shot" Is taken following the working scenario, prepared by the director from the complete scenario. This working scenario collects the different scenes throughout the picture which have to be taken in one particular set or To- cation. A shot of the hero entering a house may be taken. for instance, two weeks after the picture of his ac- tions inside room of that house fol- lowing his entrance through the front door. has been shot"
 When the picture is completed, said Mir. Smith. it contains about 1S.o0o feet of film, which has to be cut down to about 5000 feet, each reel holding 1 l,00n feet The cutting, done by per sons at salary of about s1Oo a week, Is therefore one of the most important features of picture preparation. Nightly flashes" of the pictures taken the previous day are shown in the projecting room. and they are 70. K'd" or criticized by the director and author. perhaps, and marked for a "retake" if not satisfactory. Mir, Smith predicted that machine made" pictures would give way, eventually to those upon which more thought and time would be given, after the manner of D. w. Griffith in his pro- auctions
 Taken At Far1lington
 As an example of Mir. Griffith's care and insistence that everything should be as perfect as possible, Mir. Smith spoka of his dissa tisfaction with the rescue scene, taken in the winter time, in the feature Way Down East" Not until the summer did Mir. Griffith witness the opening performance of the picture in Middletown, N. Y. All who saw the picture were enthusias tic about it-all save Griffith. AL thohgh it was summer, and impossi ble to find a waterfall and river full of Ice, the director decided to take the rescue scene over again. An emissary came to MT. Smith, at Pennington, ignorant of who MT, Smith was, and secured the privilege of using a water