Courtesy Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
Another Railroad Scene.
The umbrella put up to shade the company gives an idea of the length of time often necessary to take even the simplest scenes. Hours, possibly, were spent at this one spot.
CHAPTER V
MAKING A MOTION PICTURE
Once I was turned loose in New York City with thirty-odd thousand dollars and a novel by a popular author, and told to make a movie out of them.
Suppose that should happen to you. How would you begin?
Of course you would want to make a better picture than so many of these other fellows seem able to turn out. But how would you start? Just by hiring some actors and a camera man and telling them to get busy?