[Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookJean of the Lazy A CHAPTER XVIII 19/22
They stayed and worked upon the serial until it was finished, and that meant that they stayed until the first October blizzard caught them while they were finishing the last reel. Do you know what they did then? Jean changed a few scenes around at Lite's suggestion, and they went out into the hills in the teeth of the storm and pictured Jean lost in the blizzard, and coming by chance upon the outlaws at their camp, which she and Lite and Lee had been hunting through all the previous installments of the story.
It was great stuff,--that ride Jean made in the blizzard,--and that scene where, with numbed fingers and snow matted in her dangling braid, she held up the rustlers and marched them out of the hills, and met Lite coming in search of her. You will remember it, if you have been frequenting the silent drama and were fortunate enough to see the picture.
You may have wondered at the realism of those blizzard scenes, and you may have been curious to know how the camera got the effect.
It was wonderful photography, of course; but then, the blizzard was real, and that pinched, half frozen look on Jean's face in the close-up where she met Lite was real.
Jean was so cold when she turned the rustlers over to Lite that when she started to dismount and fell in a heap,--you remember ?--she was not acting at all.
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