The famous “light effect.” From “Pippa Passes,” with Gertrude Robinson.

(See [p. 97])

An express wagon was waiting for our load of stuff—big wads of canvas for the teepees, cameras, and costume baskets. A man in a red automobile was also waiting—Mr. Predmore, who owned Caudebec Inn where we were to stop. Mr. Griffith and Mr. Bitzer and a few other of the important personages took their places in the automobile—the second in the county—the “Red Devil” we afterwards called it. The actors straggled along.

From “The Mills of the Gods,” with Linda Griffith and Arthur Johnson.

(See [p. 49])

Biograph’s first Western studio. Scene from “The Converts,” with Linda Griffith, Arthur Johnson and Marion Leonard.

(See [p. 150])