The site of the Leiper Film Company studios was a huddle of many disparate buildings The topography of the place was irrational and obscure It possessed certainly a few permanent landmarks such as the Script Department out for the rest it appeared to be made up of numerous small rooms identically furnished which were employed for official and unofficial confabulations and could be distinguished one from another only by a surrealist system of digits and letters of the alphabet and to locate any particular one of these unaided was a considerable enterprise More than anything else perhaps the studio lacked a focus A decisive single main entrance might have provided this but in fact there were three main entrances severely egalitarian in their amenities and with nothing to choose between them except that one of them gave access to the place where you wanted to arrive and the other two did not and in none of them was there anywhere where enquiries could be made and some species of orientation established To the mere stranger it was all vastly confusing