Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beaudine learned his trade in the silent days with such oldtimers as Marie Prevost and Ben Turpin. Says he: "We'd write 'em, shoot 'em and print 'em in a week." Nowadays, most Hollywood directors are apt to shoot one scene scores of times; but a lot of TV programs have happily reversed progress and gone back to the old slapdash days. Today, Beaudine has a budget of $25,000 a film, and it costs $10,000 a day to shoot. Beaudine seldom takes more than 2½ days to get a film...
...product is not as bad as it might be. Beaudine believes that "planning and being a jump ahead is what counts." He recalls an old two-reeler he was directing when an elderly actress dropped dead in mid-picture. Saddened but unsentimental, Bill stopped shooting only long enough to write her out of the script, with a subtitle reading: "Mrs. Murphy has gone to her relatives...
Nevertheless, the slight lifting of the curtain raised a problem for Western newsmen. "Why did they let us in?" asked U.P. Paris Bureau Chief Ed Korry. "The Communists stand to win either way. If we report their peace congress, we quote them saying they want peace ... If you write about them in a nasty way, they say 'We're willing to be nice; it's the Western correspondents who are warmongers...
Kaiser Motors, said Henry, had started from scratch on the C-119's, had to learn all about the new job and write off its enormous tooling costs against only 159 planes. The cost of producing the first C-119's was high, as is usual in mass production, but with production increasing, mistakes corrected and short cuts discovered, the cost curve would fall rapidly...
Family Portrait. In Saskatoon, Sask., the Star-Phoenix carried this want ad: "Carpenter who smokes, drinks, and spits on the floor, 2 children . . . who write on walls and chop up floors, wife no better, desires to rent a house...