BREAKING INTO
THE MOVIES
CASTING THE PICTURE
This is a typical scene in a casting director's office. Mr. Emerson andMiss Loos, with their stenographer, are studying the faces of theapplicants. When a type exactly suited to the story is found, she issent direct to the studio to begin work.
![BREAKING INTO THE MOVIES by JOHN EMERSON and ANITA LOOS Authors of "How To Write Photoplays" ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHER](https://oldbook.b-cdn.net/kitaplar/6/pg56570-h/images/tp.jpg "BREAKING INTO THE MOVIES by JOHN EMERSON and ANITA LOOS Authors of \"How To Write Photoplays\" ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHER")
Copyright, 1921, by
THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
- Introduction 1
- What the Jobs Are 5
- Acting for the Screen 9
- Would You Film Well? 12
- Make-Up 17
- How to Dress for a Picture 22
- Movie Manners 26
- Reading Your Part 29
- Inside the Brain of a Movie Star 33
- Salaries in the Movies 38
- Scenarios 41
- How Others Have Done It 44
- Amateur Movie Making 49
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Casting the Picture Frontispiece
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