With the movie makers - Myron M. Stearns

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Getting Ready to take a Scene “On Location”]
[Making use of a “Real” Incident]
[The Scene the Audiences Saw]
[Roping an Auto Bandit]
[Taking “Close-Ups” on a Moving Auto]
[A Movie “Miniature”]
[A Snow Scene Made of Salt]
[“Shooting” a Tramp on a Moving Train]
[A Closer View of the Preceding “Take”]
[Getting Thrills with a Balloon]
[An Old Whaling Ship Refitted to Make a New Movie]
[Capsized by a Real Whale]
[Aiding Nature by a Skilful Fake]
[Real Danger on the High Seas]
[The Second Step to Safety]
[A Douglas Fairbanks “Set” used in “The Three Musketeers”]
[How a Movie “Set” is Made]
[Applying the Mysteries of “Make-Up”]
[A Typical Movie “Interior”]
[Staging a Movie Prize-Fight]
[How a Motion Picture Interior is Made]
[Engine Trouble on a Dakota Prairie]
[When the Hero is the Captain of a Steam Shovel]
[Douglas Fairbanks as D’Artagnan in “The Three Musketeers”]
[Another Scene from “The Three Musketeers”]
[Filming an Old Engineer on a Fast-Moving Locomotive]
[Another Railroad Scene]
[Getting a Comedy Close-Up for a Laugh]
[A “Location” where Reflectors are Essential]
[Where Scenic Beauty is Required]
[A Proposal on a Mountain Top]
[Wrecking a Racing-Car for Sport]
[Getting a Risky Bit of Action]
[Actress, or a Victim of an Accident?]
[Getting a real “Thriller”]
[Drama on an Aëroplane]
[A Gruesome Aëroplane Wreck]
[Good Training in Cheerfulness]
[Two Cameras Against One Pig]
[Carrying an Elephant to a “Location”]
[An Auto Load of Horses]
[A Tête-à-Tête with a Lion]
[Acting with a “Tame” Lion]
[An Elephant on a Rampage]
[Human Brains Against Brute Strength]
[One of the Big Scenes in “Robin Hood”]
[Spending Money on a “Spectacle”]
[A “Western” Actor and His Favorite Horse]
[“Westerns” are always Popular]
[Archway from “The Three Musketeers”]
[A Mexican Gateway from “Winners of the West”]

WITH THE MOVIE MAKERS

CHAPTER I

HOW DO YOU WATCH MOVIES?

Grover Cleveland was a great fisherman. Once, after he was famous and President, some one asked him what he did, all those hours he spent, waiting so patiently for the fish to bite.

“Oh,” he is reported to have answered, “sometimes I sit and think, and other times I just sit.”

That’s the way most of us watch motion pictures—with the accent on the sit.