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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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GLASS AND ENCLOSED STAGES AND EXTERIOR SET, GOLDWYN STUDIOS, LOS ANGELES ;0 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER staff shop is engaged in sculpture and modeling and moulds are turning outcolumns, vases, and human figures. A model shop is developing miniatfires oftrains, ships and fixtures; these models are photographed where it might be ex-pensive or unattainable to get an original, and are used in picturing objectssupposedly at a great distance. Painting and paperhanging is an importantwork, for most effects of surfaces and shadows are secured by painting. Theelectrical shops are attending to the power and light for the plant; a great manyof the modern pictures are photographed in closed stages under artificial light.A landscape and nursery department furnishes flowers and potted plants andgardens for the numerous sets. The photographic department is highly technical and perhaps primary inimportance, for here lies the success or failure of the film. Each day the nega-
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FALSEWORK FOR CATHEDRAL SET IN EARTHBOUND tive of the work done is finished and actors and directors sit and view withregret or satisfaction the results of their endeavors. There are in additionhundreds of dressing rooms, costuming rooms, tailor shops, restaurants andpremises catering to the hundreds of people that participate in the making of thefilm. The stages are mostly of glass, although a later type is entirely enclosed;each is large enough for five or six interior sets and in one case a stage wasgiven over entirely to reproduce the interior of the cathedral here illustrated.About the properties are scattered sets showing street scenes, Venetian canalscenes, houses the world over, all in plaster, wood and canvas painted. The studios of these picture plants are in themselves small cities, quitehuman in all of their working parts and toiling by sun or lamp to mimic thelives of the people and their habits. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER yi The Planning of Theatres and Auditoriums KALEV

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