Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-09 | Page 24 | Fear of Lacking Authenticity Chief Bugaboo of Directors

F Fear ear of Lac Lacking ing Authenticity Chief Bugaboo o of Directors DIrectors' II There Is no denying the fact that the chief Obsession of or the 1 present day motion picture director Is feat fear fear Cear fear of authenticity To lo clarify the atmosphere on tills particular point It might bo be well to elucidate Modern day ny picture devotees are of the tho c cosmopolite ost order older c order college college ote ll professors scientific authorities and learned men In other lines sit side b by side with the thc groc grocers grocers' rs' rs clerks the bus driver the middle class family enjoying an n evenings evening's entertainment in their favorite picture picture pic plc- ture lure house Obviously the picture projected on the screen Is at the mercy of or ortho tho ho self constituted d Judges and Jury In other words words and and this tills Is a mattes matter of record record any any slight blight v fla flavin in story or action and and especially in authenticity means a letter to the studio calling attention to the su supposed posed deficiency Thus It Is the effort cHort of every goa good goad director writer technical man su supervisor and tho the like to obviate late any such contingency In the talking all lox Fox production The Black Watch based on Talbot Mundys Mundy's story King of ot the I Khyber hyber therIs there ther Is a It battle scene taking place In In Flanders with The Watch nickname of the second Forty Highlanders highlanders High high- landers lander going over the top led I bithe bi by bythe the pipers The reserves are arc seen Been coming up led by their pipers and It Is made very evident that helmets are not worn The casual observer may feel c l that dispensing with helmets Is a a. technical error If It so the error will be on the side of ot the observer During the first year of the World war Scotch companies went over the top with their pipers playing and the c casualties among the pipers especially were heavy However the proc procedure was con con- by an official ol order cr Issued by the tho British commander chief In France Field Marshal Lord and the practice of ot dis dispensing with helmets was discontinued discon early In 1913 1911 Tho The particular Incident of or the pictured story Atory happened happen In 1911 1914 and Is thus historically and authentically authentically nUi au nU- i l aIlY cor correct