GEORGE FOLSEY: I worked with a director who had come from the Sennett company, and they were all kind of a little nutty over there, I guess. He never would say, all right, let’s get a close-up. If he wanted to have a great big close-up of somebody, he would stand there and he would say, “Choke her, choke her, choke her . . .” I finally figured out that that meant get a great big close-up, up by her throat. If he wanted a medium shot, like a half shot, he’d say, “Medium fried, medium fried . . .” It took me a while to get this jargon in my head. He would say when he wanted a long shot, “Feetie,
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