NIGHTMARE GOING
NO MORE FILM TESTS “TOO EXCITING!” r PHE film test, nightmare ordeal to the most experienced actor, will soon be a thing of the past, according to Marshall Neilan. It has been the custom to try out a candidate for pictures in a solo act, registering emotion before the very critical eye of a camera, with the director as an exacting audience. Even the man or girl accustomed to acting, to movie make-up and to the glare of the studio lights, finds this a very trying experience. It is almost impossible not to appear self-conscious and ill at ease.
Neilan, who is credited with more screen finds than any other director in
the business, prefers to make his choices in natural circumstances, while the actors are unconscious of his speculative eye.
He has made a number of selections of promising screen material in this way, and his judgment is said to bo invariably sound.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)
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