PRODUCTION TIME VARIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 14

PRODUCTION TIME VARIES

TWO YEARS FOR “WEDDING MARCH” In the old days of motion picture production, Harold Lloyd used to turn out one of his “Lonesome Luke” comedies each week. At the present time he is making 1 one or two pictures a year, but they are very different from the somewhat crude attempts of the early producers. The rate of one picture a year,

however, is not a general one, and holds good only in the case of a few stars. Richard Dix, Clara Bow, Bebe Daniels. Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Adolphe Menjou and Charles Rogers will each appear in four or five Paramount pictures each year. The schedule of work is carefully

planned 12 months in advance. and their stories are selected so that there will be the greatest possible variety of plot and characterisation. A picture such as Adolphe Menjou’s “His Private Life,” recently completed at the Paramount Studios, takes about three months to make. Much more time is spent on the production of J>ig pictures such as “Wings,” and “The Wedding March." The latter took von Stroheim two years to complete at the Paramount Studios, and will be released this year in New Zealand as a sound synchronised production.