MOTION PICTURE HISTORY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)

MOTION PICTURE HISTORY

} Cecil B. De Mille recently constructed the 59th " chapter " of the most complete pictorial history of the motion picture in- • dustry in existence. With the making of still photographs for " The Sign of the Cross," Paramount's spectacular drama of faith and paganism in the colourful days of Nero, the noted director compiled the 59th album of photographs which run in an- unbroken line .back to -■1913, when he directed his first: feature,• •"The Squaw Man." De Mill© is said to be the only director who has a continuous record of, still photo-, graphs of 58 consecutive productions., The albums, which he keeps in* a safe deposit vault contain more than 48,000 separate .photographs. Within the covers of the volumes may bo found some of. the earliest ■Bcenes in which Mary Pickford was starred, the first screen appearance' of Gloria Swansun, the leap to* fame of Wallace Reid, and scenes in which Noah' ißeery, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery, William Boyd, Alice Terry and mafty 'Other modern stars appear as extras.