MOVIES AND NEWSPAPERS
SIMILAR "AIMS. A newspaper office is the ideal training ground for all branches of motion pictures, according to Richard Arlen, who maintains that a capable, editor is equipped to be h line film director ami a star reporter would make an ideal cameraman. “The able editor and reporter always insist on accuracy —faithful presentation of facts,” says Arlen. “They are always striving for original methods oi treatment; to ‘play up' the story in the most attractive and unique manner.” “This attitude sums up tho present trend in pictures. Finding the news and tolling it as a good editor wants it told—vividly, accurately and tersely—is our job. It is this treatment that we attempted to give our latest film, “The Conquering Horde,” which relates events that transpired in Texas immediately after the Civil War.” Hamilton McFadden will direct ami Philip Klein and Barry Conners are writing the screen play and dialogue.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)
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