Chapter I: Front Matter

BREAKING INTO
THE MOVIES

This is a typical scene in a casting director's office. Mr. Emerson and Miss Loos, with their stenographer, are studying the faces of the applicants. When a type exactly suited to the story is found, she is sent direct to the studio to begin work.]

BREAKING INTO
THE MOVIES

_by_
JOHN EMERSON
_and_
ANITA LOOS
_Authors of "How To Write Photoplays"_

_ILLUSTRATED_

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1921, by
THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY

All Rights Reserved

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II WHAT THE JOBS ARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

III ACTING FOR THE SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

IV WOULD YOU FILM WELL? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

V MAKE-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

VI HOW TO DRESS FOR A PICTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

VII MOVIE MANNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

VIII READING YOUR PART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

IX INSIDE THE BRAIN OF A MOVIE STAR . . . . . . . . . 33

X SALARIES IN THE MOVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

XI SCENARIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

XII HOW OTHERS HAVE DONE IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

XIII AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PART II . . . . . . . . . . . 53

RED HOT ROMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

ILLUSTRATIONS

CASTING THE PICTURE FRONTISPIECE

FACING PAGE

ROUGING THE LIPS FOR THE CAMERA . . . . . . . . . . . 17

MAKING UP THE EYES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

GLUEING ON A CRÊPE MUSTACHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

REHEARSING THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

TESTING MAKE-UP AND EXPRESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

MAKING A "CLOSE-UP" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

BREAKING INTO
THE MOVIES

Breaking Into the Movies