HISTORIC RESEARCH
Historic research has become one of the most important items ni the preparation and presentation of motion pictures depicting life in the middle ages. In order to portray faithfully on the screen a noted character who actually lived, the artist must undertake a study of that character equivalent to a course in history. In preparation for the role of Louis XI. of France in Paramount’s all-colour singing romance, “The Vagabond King,” O. P. Heggie read every work on the notorious king that he could find in the Los Angeles Library. He carefully studied all available pictures of the monarch, and even extended the search to the Xew York libraries. “The result of my study of Louis XI. is certainly not flattering to him,” says Heggie. “But it enabled me to bring him to the> screen as he actually. >vas.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 14
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141HISTORIC RESEARCH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 14
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