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Updated: June 5, 2025
There came the scene where he looked at the photograph album. But now his turning of the pages was interspersed with close-ups of the portraits he regarded so admiringly. And these astonishingly proved to be enlarged stills of Clifford Armytage, the art studies of Lowell Hardy. It was puzzling.
"Only the few who have loved us with all our faults and vain deceit and make-believe," he replied. A series of "close-ups," were photographed after lunch. Consuello went into the actor's embrace again to permit a "close-up" of his fervent expression of love and thankfulness as he looked upward to the sky. John didn't mind the repetition of this scene.
In the enlarged close-ups when Kedzie was a girl giantess, the effect was uncanny. She loved herself and was glad of the friendly dark that hid her own wild pride in her beauty, but did not prevent her from hearing the exclamations of Ferriday and the backers and the other actors who were admitted to the preliminary views.
It had required almost an entire morning to enact this one simple scene, with the numerous close-ups that Baird demanded. The afternoon was taken up largely in becoming accustomed to a pair of old Spanish spurs that Baird now provided him with. Baird said they were very rare old spurs which he had obtained at a fancy price from an impoverished Spanish family who had treasured them as heirlooms.
The scene shifted from people to things: a large, complicated-looking column of some sort was being shown. "What does this tell us?" "What is the purpose of this roof?" "To keep in the air and moisture, which all other planets are steadily losing. Alma is a much older planet than ours, which is why her people are so far advanced." Next came "close-ups" of some inhabitants.
The kitchen in which his mother toiled was repeatedly shot, including close-ups of the old mother's ingenious contrivances especially of the closed boiler with its coil of copper tubing by which she was helping to save the humble home. And a scene in the neat living room with its old-fashioned furniture made it all too clear that every effort would be required to save the little home.
It had been deemed best not to inform the actor that later close-ups of the pages would show him to have been refreshed by studying photographs of himself copies, in fact, of the stills of Clifford Armytage at that moment resting on Baird's desk.
"'Watch that play to-day; you will discover young Gill in many of the close-ups where, under my direction, he brought out the psychological, the symbolic if I may use the term values of the great idea underlying our story. Even in these bits he revealed the fine artistry which he has since demonstrated more broadly under another director.
Merton studied with new interest the director who would some day be telling people that he had been the first to observe the aptitude of this new star had, in fact, given him a lot of footage and close-ups and medium shots and "dramatics" in The Blight of Broadway when he was a mere extra before he had made himself known to the public in Jeff Baird's first worth-while piece.
She'd be a star if only she was better lookin'. You bet Mercer don't allow any lookers on the same set with her. Do you make that one at the table with her now? Just got looks enough to show Mercer off. Mercer's swell-lookin', I'll give her that, but for actin' say, all they need in a piece for her is just some stuff to go in between her close-ups. Don't make much difference what it is. Oh, look!
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