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Identifier: ourcountryitsres00hopk (find matches)
Title: Our country and its resources;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939
Subjects: United States. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Munn & co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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unbuttoned while actually onthe march or on duty. The directorwas grateful for the tip, for herealized the humiliation that mighthave been his if the otherwise perfeet scene were held up to ridicule by the better-informed of the mil-lions who would ultimately view thepicture. At the same time the au-thor also commented on the wearingof the Iron Cross decoration, whichthe director had insisted the menshould wear conspicuously, whereasit is actually tucked away with onlyits ribbon showing. Can there heany doubt of the necessity of a tech-nical director. To return to interior settings:These represent one of the big itemsof expense in the production of afilm. One reason is that the averageset can he used in one productiononly, after which it must he dismantled. In the earlier days theaudience might not have commentedon seeing the same pieces of furni-ture used several times. Bui todaythe audience is more observing andwill soon detect any attempt to usethe same lamp, settee, or other fur-
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OUR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES nishings repeatedly. Conspicuousrepetition has got to be avoided bythe producers. And as in the in-stance of the garments worn by theplayers, the furniture must be inkeeping with the last word in in-terior furnishings. So every studiomaintains a large room or severalrooms in which an almost endlessvariety of furnishings is stored. The walls of an interior set aregenerally built of compressed paperor lifdit hoard, hacked up withframework and props, to facilitatethe work of erection and destruc-tion. Tremendous quantities of thenecessary materials are employed inthe course of a year, as witnesssome 50,000 feet or more of com-pressed paper board used by a lead-ing comedy producer, together withover 500,000 feet of lumber. Thesame concern spends over $1,800 forsome 15,000 n.lls of wall paper eachyear, with which to cover the wallsof its sets. The cost of even the most modestset runs up into the hundreds ofdollars, for it must lie rememberedthat practically ev

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