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Show Work on "Movie" That . Audience Doesn't See The movie-going public, unfamiliar wdth 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 American screen star, who says, in an article in Liberty, "You buy a ticket at the box office, find a seat, and watch a picture for 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 tiaies in rehearsal, and a dozen times before the camera ; and that is only-one only-one of a thousand episodes in the play." |