Courtesy W. W. Hodkinson Corporation.
A Typical Movie “Interior.”
Notice the carbon arc lights at sides of the picture, used to illumine the set. The glaring oblong faces of the lights can be noticed in the center lights on the right. From the glare of these lights actors often get an intensely painful affliction called “klieg-eyes.”
Courtesy Universal Pictures Corporation.
Staging a Movie Prize-Fight.
Notice how each actor in the foreground has to play his part, no matter how unimportant. To make the scene realistic, each “extra” must appear as interested as any spectator at a real prize-fight.
But let us pass on beyond the outer offices, and see where the girl with the collie went.
Through a hallway we come suddenly into a vast, dark, cavernous interior, high and wide and shadowy. From somewhere off at our left comes a sound of hammering, where a new “set” is being erected. Off at the right is more hammering and pounding with the squeaking of nails being drawn as another set, in which the “shooting” has been finished, is being “struck,” or taken down. From a far corner of the great cavern there is a radiance of bluish-green light, where one of the companies is “working.”
Curiously enough, this huge dark place is called the “light” stage. It gets its name from the fact that scenes can be photographed on it only with artificial light.