A Proposal on a Mountain Top 105 Wrecking a Racing-Car for Sport 110 Getting a Risky Bit of Action 111 Actress, or a Victim of an Accident? 120 Getting a real “Thriller” 121 Drama on an Aëroplane 128 A Gruesome Aëroplane Wreck 129 Good Training in Cheerfulness 134 Two Cameras Against One Pig 135 Carrying an Elephant to a “Location” 138 An Auto Load of Horses 139 A Tête-à-Tête with a Lion 144 Acting with a “Tame” Lion 145 An Elephant on a Rampage 148 Human Brains Against Brute Strength 149 One of the Big Scenes in “Robin Hood” 154 Spending Money on a “Spectacle” 155 A “Western” Actor and His Favorite Horse 172 “Westerns” are always Popular 173 Archway from “The Three Musketeers” 184 A Mexican Gateway from “Winners of the West” 185 WITH THE MOVIE MAKERS CHAPTER I HOW DO YOU WATCH MOVIES? Grover Cleveland was a great fisherman. Once, after he was famous and President, some one asked him what he did, all those hours he spent, waiting so patiently for the fish to bite. “Oh,” he is reported to have answered, “sometimes I sit and think, and other times I just sit.” That’s the way most of us watch motion pictures—with the accent on the sit. We don’t use our brains enough, where the movies are concerned, either in the selection of pictures to go to see, or in analyzing—and appreciating or criticizing—what we see. How often do you watch motion pictures? Do you know anything about how they’re made? And who makes the best ones? And how they do it? And why they are better? And how you can tell them? And what it means in your life to see good ones—or bad ones?