o, is located not far from the
shopping district in New York City. In all essential features, except
size and capacity, it is a duplicate of the one in the Bronx, of which
it is a supplement.

To a visitor coming on the floor of such a theatre for the first time
there is a sense of confusion in beholding the heterogeneous "sets"
of scenery and the motley assemblage of characters represented in the
various plays in the process of "taking," or rehearsal. While each set
constitutes virtually a separate stage, they are all on the same floor,
without wings or proscenium-arches, and separated only by a few feet.
Thus, for instance, a Japanese house interior may be seen cheek by jowl
with an ordinary prison cell, flanked by a mining-camp, which in turn
stands next to a drawing-room set, and in each a set of appropriate
characters in pantomimic motion. The action is incessant, for in any
dramatic representation intended for the motion-picture film every
second counts.

The production of several completed plays per week necessitates the
employment of a considerable staff of people of miscellaneous trades and
abilities. At each of these two studios there is employed a number
of stage-directors, scene-painters, carpenters, property-men,
photographers, costumers, electricians, clerks, and general assistants,
besides a capable stock company of actors and actresses, whose generous
numbers are frequently augmented by the addition of a special star,
or by a number of extra performers, such as Rough Riders or other
specialists. It may be, occasionally, that the exigencies of the
occasion require the work of a performing horse, dog, or other animal.
No matter what the object required may be, whether animate or inanimate,
if it is necessary for the play it is found and pressed into service.

These two studios, while separated from the main plant, are under the
same general management, and their original negative films are forwarded
as made to the Orange works, where the large copying department is
located in one of the concrete buildings. Here, after the film has been
passed upon by a committee, a considerable number of positive copies are
made by ingenious processes, and after each one is separately tested, or
"run off," in one or other of the three motion-picture theatres in the
building, they are shipped out to film exchanges in every part of the
country. How extensive this business has become may be appreciated when
it is stated th