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Show Work on "Movie" Thai Audlvnce Doesn't See The movie-going public, unfamiliar with the making of a moving picture, lias no idea of the time and labor required re-quired to produce a film that runs au hour or two in a theater, according to Lillian Gish, famous American screeu star, who says, in an article in Liberty, "i'ou buy a ticket at the box office, find a seat, and watch a picture lor a while. Then you get your hat and walk out. In two hours you have witnessed something which may have taken us eight months and a million dollars to make. "You have seen a woman walk across the screen," continues the actress, ac-tress, "pause at a window, and turn to stare at a man coming through a door. It takes 40 seconds to show you that scene and it may have taken us 40 hours to get it right. We may have done that one bit of acting a hundred times in rehearsal, and a dozen times before the camera ; and that is only one of a thousand episodes in the play." |