FILM PRODUCTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1916, Page 8

FILM PRODUCTION.

AX INTERESTING SIDELIGHT. ' In this age of specialisation, it is only to be expected that the tendency should bo noticeable in the film world as in other branches of industry. And if we were to pick out the departments of film production in which the various manufacturers shine, the Famous flayers Company would undoubtedly have to be given credit for the persistent success which has attended their film versions of well-known novels. Their latest effort, "The Call of the North," sums up as one of the most artistically arranged and most minutely detailed productions yet seen. It is said to have cost £IO,OOO in money and four months of time. When the picture went Into rehearsal, Stuart Edward White, author of "The Conjuror's House,'' from which the play was taken, spent four weeks in Canada engaging Indians of various types significant of the northern woods. Eighteen big tiger Indians were secured A foraging party went forth on a hunt for a certain type of canoe peculiar to these Indians. One was at last located at Whitiba, in Canada, far north of Winnipeg. Thi=. together with the Indians and a number of spruce trees, was transported to California, where the first stages of this photo-play were set. One hundred players journeyed front Los Angeles to the Great Bear Valley, where the water scenes were enacted. These, after oeing joined bv the IS Indians of the eompanv, travelled to Moose Canyon, 18,S00ft above sea level, amidst snow and oft-times blizzards. One clause of the contract under which the artists worked was to the effect that tliev sliould enact scenes as directed, no matter how unpropitious the elements, and the snow effects shown in the picture are resplendent with magnificence and grandeur. This film will be shown at the Theatre "Royal next Monday and Tuesday in conjunction with the picture of "Our Navy."