Show I i Back a aV c Stage on V the e Movie Movi Lot Tou may or ma may not knoW that more lIlen men ten were needed behind tho the battle baUle line is 11 the World war wr than ero actually on onh the h front By By gy the same samo token you ou may mayor or may not knout now OW that more men are aro needed behind the camera mert than In front of or It The public Is II apt to think of at only the Ur and other players but It takes more thin bin that to mako make a n motion picture Just juet Justs Justas U as s It takes moro more than one swallow to tomake tomake make ake ft n summer summer summer-Or or n. n jag Jap r In the making of ot a feature production there ther IB is a minimum of thirteen people on the Uie set In addition to the actors First there Is the director who Is the chief chlo of oC the works He Ho has an assistant whoso whose dut duty It Is to ace that the play players era lart ste re made up and all mechanical arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments are arc complete completo when tho the director Is 13 read ready t to shoot t Then comes the all Important camera camern- for without cinematographers that's their real name there thero could be no pIctures pic plc- tures lures There Thero Is a a. first cameraman a ae e ond c cameraman n and an assistant t cameraman That That's t s 8 tho the usual number but there thero are arc often orten more when bl big bis spectacles spectacles spec spec- C- C or 01 particularly Important and difficult difficult dif dif- scenes arc aro being photographed For Instance tho the Goldwyn Gold company recently wrecked a streetcar for tor The tiThe Glorious Fool a Mary I a T Roberts I RhInehart eto story Jest Jast completed It would have been disastrous disastrous dis dis- to miss any of tho the action so six tenses lenses recorded tho the event s Five electricians aro necessary on an average while whilo mob scenes take tako more moro One or two of these manipulate spotlights tad and the others are arc Lus busy themselves with the big bank lights Practically ever every Interior Is lIgh lighted ted with electricity and artificIal illumination Is 18 now sometimes I used Ded outdoors When hon Reginald Barker went to Canada recently to film snow Inow for ho found It necessary to accentuate the rave s of the sun with tho the big studio lamps lamp To this list of oC the men behind the amera must be added tho grip grip who Moves loves things a about bout the property man who Is responsible les for the thousand and ne props used In every picture and ana the continuity clerk who who keeps keeps track of I the scenes filmed and of oC changes made maden n n tho script This enumeration has has' taken no account Df Dr the vast number of people In the thearl various vari vari- DUS ous departments of a bl big studio such a athe as the Goldwyn plant at Culver Culver CIt City The departments el Include scenario castin casting caslin g art production publicity property electrical electric plaster laster mill milt accounting and other oter c executive xe c u branches And the tho authors authors' Someone must trite write the stories so tho the revolutionary re Idea ilea was hit upon of or engaging authors for that work It may not be amiss to remark remade that tho the author Is s now receiving the same sam as ns stars and f featured play play- irs rs Tho The author movement was started exactly two years cars ago when Samuel Goldwyn formed his group of eminent authors The list now Includes Gertrude Atherton Rupert Hughes Basil Kin King Gouverneur J hart and I Leroy I-croy cro Scott In III addition to these Mr Goldwyn has also brought to tho the screen Katharine Nowlin Burt Rita Weiman Alice Duer Dur Miller Booth Tark- Tark I Ington and Anzio |