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Show MIS1I0VS MOTORS I IE IIS , ISIEIS (By Prescott Lecky.) Cleopatra may have worried along with a barge. Paul Revere made himself him-self famous on a horse and perhaps the commuter of the Olil Stone Age traveled in a stone cart. But time and the movies have changed things. If Cleo had beon a screen vampire; if Paul had had to rehearse his act before be-fore a carema. or if the gentleman of the age of granite had been a picture pic-ture star, nothing short of a motpr car would have answered the purpose. Without motor cars the fourth greatest industry of the United States would not bo an industry at nil. It would be an experiment Automobiles solve 60 per cent of the problems that worry motion picture producers. There is not a branch of the picture manufacturing manu-facturing business in which automobiles automo-biles do not play somo part. Directors go out in their cars and scour the countryside for the proper "locations" for their films. After they find them, stage constructors and property men go out by motor and prepare them. Then the players, often numbering hundreds, and in rare cases even thousands, are convoyed by motor cars to the spot. Tho scenes are taken and they go back to the city in cars. Frequently Fre-quently the "locations" are so far from the city and in such obscure places that it would be impossible to reach them by train, and horse conveyance con-veyance would ennse the loss of the best sunlight of the day. And this is only one phase that of photography. There arc hundreds of other ways, without exaggeration, in which motors aro necessaiy attributes lo moving pictures. Mr. J. L. Bernard, a director, who has been connected with the film business busi-ness for several .years, states that his bills for automobile hire, aside from the cars which are owned by tho company, com-pany, amount to an average of $2500 for each five-reel picture. Mr. Ber-nnrd Ber-nnrd makes a film in from four to five weeks. Often, he says, when there is an unusual number of exterior scenes, as much as ?5000 is spent on motor car hire. The branch of morion pictures most dependent on automobiles is the news film. This would be impossible if cars were not ready, to rush cameramen camera-men to the important events. Movie actors' must have a glaring front. Beatrice of the ribbon counter points with pride and says, "Gee. there's Claude Carthwaite. He just signed a contract for a million dollars a year!" And can you imagine Claude's embarrassment em-barrassment if Beatrice discovered him in a trolley car? Hero, truly, aroj limousines indispensable. j |