NORMAN DAWN
A NON-STOP WORKER Those half-hour waits which are so cherished by the company making ‘The Adorable Outcast’* at the Union-Master picture studio at Bondi Junction. Sydney, mean extra work for Norman Dawn, the director. They mean relaxation and rest for Edith Roberts, Edmund Burns Walter Long, and Jack Gavin and the other players, but these rests are necessities not out of consideration for the players, but because there are certain technical details, such as perspective lighting. and angles to be considered, and Dawn, in his slavish consideration of detail, does these things thoroughly, only calling the company back to the set and shouting Ready! Music!” when he has perfected the preparations for the shot. Half an hour’s solid work, and conference with mechanics xnd cameramen, may result in less than three minutes’ actual action before the camera. Patience is Dawn’s second name, but it is patience tha* makes a picture, that gives a production an nt njosphere of thoroughness and conviction.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 230, 17 December 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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