"WIZARD" OF MOVIES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 179, 30 August 1929, Page 9

"WIZARD" OF MOVIES

Betwecn "The Adrentures of Dol- ! relea.sed in 11X18 and "Lady of the XiKhtd' released in 1929, David Wark Grittith has made 480 motion pjctnrcs at a lotal cost of 12.000.000 dollars. They liave grosscd. for their poducnig companies 56,000.000 dollars. "Ihe Biitli of a Nation," which cost- 100. 00J dollars. has retnrned a gross stnn of 10.000,000 dollars and still being exhibited. It was "The Birtli of a Nation" which raised the rmema from a dime show to a dollar show. Tn that sense we owe the modein cinema to tVrifhth, who created the picture. _Jo Griflith also goes the ci^dit of iiiventing the "fade out." (he nash back," and tlie soft focns phoogiapny, and many other facilities for motion picture technique. His latest f ontribution to screen art is the multiple exposure Jt is said to' be the most astounding camera feat for some \mirs. Tt i.s a camera illusion showiim io representations of a single figure in oue scene at he same time. and is used for tlie Srst time in his latest Picture, 'The Lady of the Night." W illiam Boyd. upon whom tlie experiment was tried, is made to merse into Ihe personalities of 10 characters seated nbout tables until the room is literallav filled with tliem." At the end of tlns reallv wonderful scene tlie 13 Boyds rise and meree into one. & -v ...