American writer-director-producer Andrew L. Stone Stone attended the University of California and then joined the San Francisco Film Exchange. He began in Hollywood with Universal in 1918, serving his initial apprenticeship in a film laboratory. After several more years of toil in Universal's prop department, he graduated to directing short films. He financed his first two-reel effort, _The Elegy , turned out to be massive commercial failures. Nonetheless, his significant contribution to the concept and mechanics of on-location shooting was recognised with a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
