Show Million Ways to Break Into I Pictures Say Authors Who T Tell ell How Many Have Done It Get All You Can Out of Experiences of Others but Dont Don't Confine Your Activities to Reading Their Biographies I By JOHN EMERSON AND AN ANITA IT A LOOS I I I Collaborators on the Constance First National Pictures Book to Be Published b by James A A. A I McCann C Ca ew ew York City CHAPTER 12 lit I UP all the knowledge he he hem can m acquire macquire rehi- rehi reIn reIn-I I Continued from Saturday I D. D V. SV Griffith himself was once an nn ex cx- tra Ira He was a J gooc extra too accordIng accord accord- I eX-I Ing Ing- ng t to 50 no of oC his former employers who now ItOW work under him In his hla great studios it Mamaroneck N. N Y But ho he had all I manner of oC queer Ideas a as to how V pictures should be he act acted and directed and pho iho- For example he thought that more morp effective scenes m might bo be made at times by photographing actors close 6 up cutting off oft their legs and arms with the I framo frame of oC the picture and showing only their races faces many times s enlarged Also he had a theory that one might heighten the dramatic e by hY cutting hack back from one scene to another Instead o ot of fol following tol- tol lowing ono lipe of action In th a monotonous monotonous monotonous sequence through gh an an entire photo photo- pIa play The directors and actors and cameramen cameramen cam cam- of oC those days who would no sooner have thought of ot taking a character characters character's charac charac- ter ter's picture from rom the bust buat up than of taking tho the picture upside down were nevertheless Interested in In this eccentric chap and even cn asked his advice from time to time Finally he eccentric ex extra extra ex- ex tra ti-a Rot got ot his chance as a director to try tryout tryout tryout out a few of these radical theories His Birth of oC a Nation changed the tho entire technique of ot the tho motion pictures Many noted directors received their training In directing directing- plays plas for Cor the spoken n stage as for example Hugh Ford Others Oth Oth- ers n like Uke Marshall Neilan or Allan Alan Dwan came camo In iii from outside professions ALL KEEN EN STUDENTS Without exception those who ha have hae e achieved distinction In the film world have havo been en keen students of oC motion motton pic plc- Lures tures Hence the ambitious amateur who t. t ti 1 i e tr to o In n Uvo tivo to the profession he ho contemplates contemplate taking up Perhaps the tho best school of oC Instruction next to tho studios them them- Is your our local motion picture thea thea- tre There you 1 0 can stud study the work oCth of oC th the tho players directors scenario writers and cameramen to your our hearts heart's content I and you OU will learn much If It you OU watch clo closely ely with an analytical eye ee You should see Bee as man many motion pictures as po possible preferably the better ones though you OU can also profit b by the contrast contrast con con- tra t. t which the presentation of oC a poor product on will give The right and the tho I wrong way v of t doln doing things will then be emphasized moro clearl clearly Many directors tors tore and players plC view a it picture over o and andover andover over O again in IlL order to get the Cull fullest est benefit from Crom their study of it The plc- plc ture Is to them what hat the thc text hook book Is to the school student Just as the college student goes over an important lesson re repeatedly repeatedly re- re II until he has mastered it thoroughly thor thor- PO o does docs the progressive proCessional professional man or woman In motion pictures absorb every ever detail of oC a film rum which conveys con con- veys an any l learning of oC Importance The rhe he value of oC this method of oC stud Html need not be it is quite obvious And we believe th the amateur would be well wen repaid by adopting it amateur amatel r student of oC motion pictures should particular see the new now pictures This Thill Is very Important because pictures picture are arc constantly changing In stylo and method of production New ew productions which will b be worth stud study we e he h. seen these at private advance screening and which we recommend to our readers render ore are John M M. M Stahl's Stahl The Child hUrl Thou Gayest Me lle Ie Charles Charie A uA Midnight ht Bell BU R R. R A. A Walsh's Serenade Norma Talmadgo Talmadgo Tal- Tal madge in The Sign Sigu on the Door Whit man mar Bennetts Bennett's WIC Wife Against Wife VICe Hr I. I F rt In The In Tn InH H HF F r Fr r and Constance Talmadgo In Womans Place Iaco or and Good for Cor Nothing There are arc re a a. million ways as to break Into motion pictures NO o 0 one can imitate Inc career of another and meet with the same de degree ce of or success Profit b bv b the experience experience experience of ot others but dont don't be governed solely by iy wh what it you read In their bi biographies hi- hi go out and make one for Cor your jour self sette The end |