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46 The Latest Wrinkle— Silhouette Movies
A typical silhouette scene, which shows what may be expected of the black and white pictures.
surprised to discover that humor, narrative power, literary discrimination, and infinite tact are just these qualities which differentiate a merely amusing, skillfully burlesque, and fatuously charming entertainment from a noteworthy and genuinely beautiful and charming experiment in a slowly evolving form ot art.
For the new pictures, as their discerning devisers realized, lend themselves with peculiar ease and aptness to fantasy. Anything in the nature of a fairy story can be pictured with satisfying suggestiveness.
''Silhouette fantasies," seem almost planned for fable and allegory and nonsense rhymes told as stories.
Mr. Gilbert is hard at work on a series of amusing "bedtime" story plays for children — which is precisely the sort of thing the new pictures can do, as well.
Because, after all, in stories or pictures on this order, a certain quality or artificiality and unreality is well-nigh demanded. Most conventional moving
pictures pride themselves on a sort of tawdry realism — except the "outdoor" scenes, where an occasional gleam of aesthetic conscience seems to be aroused.
But the "silhouette fantasies" keep constantly in the shadowy dream world, half real, half fantasy, where the locale of such fables is properly placed.
Mr. Gilbert likes to juxtapose amusing, everyday incidents or objects into the childlike region of fairies, goblins, and miracles. One of the conspiring jinni in his first production makes his final appearance — in a plug hat.
In certain types of story, Mr. Gilbert doesn't want his characters to be taken too seriously. The effect he is aiming at is droll, not literal. But a retelling of one of the stories will reveal more than paragraphs of generalization. Let us take "Inbad the Sailor," for illustration.
A sailor is wrecked on a desert isle. His only companion is a donkey, and his only nourishment and stimulation a bottle of tabasco sauce. But in a convenient jinni's chest, the sailor finds a