American Cinematographer - January 15, 1922 - 12

THE

AMERICAN

The Hell . 'i3ox

It's a Great Life
George
took a fall
a soft job
the stage.

January 15, 1922

CINEMATOGRAPHER
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Schneiderman,
A. S. c., of Fox Studio, in this wise
out of a matinee idol who undertook to tell him what
the picture actor had as compared to the hard life of
According to Mr. Schneiderman the stage hero ought to

be glad lie doesn't have to:
Fall off a. flying bro~cho at record speed among the rocks risking a broken back or neck.

Slide down a mountain conducted by a landslide that threatens

WARNING

FOR 1922

"As I sneak down the alley
In a shuilling kind ·of way
The neighbors shout and say:
'Get onto the bloomin' jay;
He's the man that had the money,
And he let it get away;
He's the man the bank at Monte Carlo broke."

every minute to bury the poor actor.

UNUSED TITLES
If You Never Marry You Will Be in No Danger of
Losing Your Wife.

Hang around the studio for a week "all made up and nothing
to act" waiting for a bewildered director to call to action.

Turn a flip-flap in six inches of mud and stand on his head in
a puddle.
Wreck an automobile by running
chance on being pinned beneath it.

it into a swamp and take a

Stand, tied to a post, waist deep in freezing water
hours while a fussy cameraman gets the effects he wants.

£01'

four

Wade a rushing mountain stream paved with slippery boulders
the while carrying a 165 pound blonde and looking like you like it.
Be almost burned
building.

alive rescuing

the heroine

Work all day and half the night on location
eat because somebody forgot to bring food.

from the burning

without a bite to

Lie five hours on a cold stage floor while the "stop motion"
shows a man-killing spider crawling slowly up to his victim.
Freeze all night in a cold, wet sea trying to get shipwreck stuff
to suit, a finicky director-and
nothing to sustain the inner man
hut something "near" to drink.
Roast for three weeks on a superheated
pleasant in the flowing robes of a Bedouin
horned toad and greasewood salad.

desert trying to look
and living on jerked

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UNWRITTEN SCENARIOS
A young thing named Katherine Parr
Was crazy to be a screen starr,
.
But she snubbed her director
When he tried to correct her
So Kate didn't get very far.
I KNEW HIM WHEN
comes that bonehead
The Cameraman-"There
Fillum in his new limousine. All swelled up since he
got to be a producer."
The Electrician-"He should lord it over his betters.
I knew that bird when he had only one little cut back."
IMPOSSIBLE SUBTITLES
"Here's that century you lent me the other day, Old
Chap."
"Pray, keep it, my hoy, Money is a bore to me.
If you need more here IS my check book."
DOES THIS THRILL YOU?
The U. S. exported 175,000,000 feet of finished motion picture film to Europe in 1920. That is equal to
35,000 five reel features or over 30,000 miles of film.
Figures for 1921 are not in yet.
NEWS
Ivoria Knoodler, the Czecho-Slovak beauty, who has
been starring on the Metwyn program, was given a new
contract last week calling for an advance of $1000.00
a week. She promptly rejected the advance saying she
was not worth it.

American Cinematographer - January 15, 1922

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