Beaver County News | 1927-08-05 | Page 6 | Work on "Movie" that Audience doesn't See

Work on "Movie" That Audience Doesn't See The movie-going public, unfamiliar with the making of a moving picture, has no idea of the time and labor required re-quired to produce a film that runs an hour or two in a theater, according to Lillian Gish, famous Americau screen star, who says, in an article in Liberty, "You buy a ticket at the box office, find a soat, and watch a picture for a while. Then you get your hat and walk out. In two hours i you have witnessed something which may have taken us eight mouths 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 So stare at a man coming through a door. It takes 40 seconds to show you that sceue and it may have takeu us 40 hours to get it right. We may have dene that one hit of acting a hundred tiaies in rehearsal, and a dozen times before the camera ; and that is only one of a thousand episodes in the play."