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SATURDAY APRIL 24, 1048.

K. SEAT IN THE STALLS

PAGE TWO applauds:

ILM director Alfred Hitch-.

HITCHCOCK-

cock. Britain's heavy for

weight (15-stone) expert on screen "shocks," has a new method of making films, more quickly and for less money.

From the point of view (of the the biggest audience, it will be

change since the introduction in the 1920s of the screen closet}}},

Hitchcock has given his technique iis first full-length film trial on the thriller In colour, "Rape."

is like making a film from the binckboard.

Every detall, every move is worked out and rehearsed Then, when enrefully in advance. the camera finally begins to turn, it keeps turning for ten minutes at a time-instead of taking the picture in disjointed fragments of one dr two minutes each.

Smoother

"Hich" finished off his"Alm in 30 days ten of them actually photo- graphing the action.

Hitchcock says; The result will be a smoother moving alm-without any of those mechanical "movements which everyone can feel when they sco a picture at present."

for bringing the Monty technique to films

When a man walks from one room to another the camera moves with him the whole time. There is no break when the door is opened, no need for a new shot for the next

of

The "now look" on plcture-making In the usual way they have to

remember one or two minutes works out like this:

dialogue-and make only three or four movements. For Hitchcock the cast has to be script perfect and netion perfect for between 30 and 40 movements. If they drift even two inches off their "marks" they pass out of focus and ruin the whole This is going to be tough-on

room,

dinner-lable scene, for example, Is filmed on a whole. The camera scene. mover round the table without

breaking the conversation into little and tougher still

pieces.

The men working the camera and must be the stars. In the scene drilled in advance to know exactly what they have to do during the whole of the ten minutes the scean takes.

Mitty The Matchless Milliner

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Danny Kaye daydreams himself as Anatole of Paris, famed' liliner, who designs fantastis hats for Georgia Lange and other gorgeous Goldwyn girls. This is one of the many hilarious sequences from the film now showing at the King's Theatre,

Hollywood Film Shop:

THE LOOK SHEDS SOME

SALTY TEARS FOR ART

By PATRICIA CLARY

LAUREN BACALL'S tears WILLIAM Powell wosn't kidding like wine, but sho when he hollered, "Oh, my said they tasted more like kip- pered herring.

achin' back!"

Ho had just hauled 100-pound Ann Blyth and her 55-pound mer- maid's tall ever a 200-foot trall for the umpteenth time.

Miss Bacall, who is doing more than look in movies, these days, "I seriously doubt," Powell said was doing her first cry-scene un- sternly, "that all those takes were der the tutelage of her husband, necessary. In my opinion, once was Humphrey Bogart, for "Key Largo." enough."

"This is really the new Bacall,' The scene for "Mr. Peabody and sniffed the new Bacall as she wipe the Mermale" called for Powell, as ed away her salty tears. "A year. Mr. Peabody, to carry Miss Blyth, ago I was spending most of my the mermaid, from the portico of time before the cameras riving his Caribbean home across the far- out down-under looks,"

But there'll be no more looks from now on.

to the pool.

den to

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Misa Blyth is ordinarily light as feather. But she was wearing a 20-pound fish tail and 35: pounds of camera travelled The

staggered alongside Powell as he out of the house, down

the steps and across the lawn.

After the first shot, director a line of "That was just a trick," Bogart Irving Pichel decided on agreed. "You can't build a whole dialogue.. career on it."

"I want to be an actress, not a weights. novelty," Miss Bacali said.

NOT CRYING TYPE

In "Key Largo," not a wisecrack slips through Miss Bacall's lips, and not a look from under her brows.

"I'm supposed to be a lady." she "Only a lady- could cry 'Uko

she said she had

to forco every salty drop.

"I'm not the crying type, I guess." Bogart and Miss Bacall are plon-

i

NO MINNOW

"Stop at the bottom of 'he steps," he told Powell. "Tell her you're sorry you had to get her out of yourį wife's bathtub.".

Powell went through tho scene two mord times.

"Guess you better make another

ADVENTURE IN THE SHADOWS OF SINISTER SINGAPORE!ning more and longer trips on their stop next time." Pichel said. "Shift

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when the picture is over, your grip a little. And you might since under Bogart's new contract stagger alightly inake it look ho's committed to only one picture better."

a year at Warners. Both have fre-

to

On

For them it will be like going

all over again. Hitchcock belleves that if it were the camera to hald possible for enough film he could take a whole picture in one unbroken session.

For the director, too, this system Involves new training When his rohearsals are over, and the camera is put in place, the scene starts.

Hitchcock says: "Then I close my eyes and hope for the best. There is, nothing more I can do, I just pray that no one makes a mistake. If they do the whole ten minutes to be done again-and that costs money."

has to

Remember El Alamein? This was the Montgomory technique of win- ning battles. On the eve of the attack Monty's work was finished. He sat back and hoped everything | would go to, plan.

Is it suitable ?

In the perfect film no one scene would ever need to be taken twice. In "Rope" there hind to be re-takes and that pushed its costs up to £300,000. But that was still

stage

£200,000 cheaper-than-if-It-had-been- made by normal film methods.

Hitchcock thinks that actors with experience will be the most adaptable. His stars in "Rope" James Stewart, Sir Cedric Hard- wicke, and Constance Collier had all been on the stage.

But at the end of a day's work they were exhausted. They wou

would drop into cheirs and say: "We're through."

There will be

some of this new pace In Hitchcock's latest British flim, "Under Capricorn," with Ingrid Bergman. But most of the picture |will be filmed the old way. That is because tho ten-minute "slices" idea can only be adapted to pletures while the whole action takes place In a short space of time.

But the Monty technique has come to stay. It will be interesting to see which stars have the acting ability to survive it.

DAVID LEWIN

TIGHTEN YOUR BELT, says Hollywood's Barbara Stanwyck,' and ..demon. strates what she means. Tighten Your Belt Week was part of the Crusade for Children which seeks to raise US$80,000,000 to feed hungry youngsters through- out the world..

~ Directory

KING'S-Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye);

QUEEN'S--The Birange Love of The stagger was no act. And Martha "Ivers (Earbara Stanwyck, quently arguted with the studio over Powell spoke his line with real Von Heflin). Mom

their assignments.

The trouble has been," Bogart feeling:

naid, "that producers and netars "If you don't mind my saying so, Just don't see things the same way, my pet, you're no minnow."

A producer. wants to make way.

An actor wants to make good pic Powell did it two times more that tures.

****"It looked perfect to me." he said. Well, there are a lot of pictures

more money.

But Pichel and cameraman Russ

that make money that you would Metty emerged from a whispered

Moon and

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pe camera angle," they | Laughton)49.

get on alone," Bogart chuckled.

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