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March, 1926
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
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Abe Lincoln might be cited in this connection. What about Thomas A. Edison, father of modern electricity and not a sloven student in the physics of light, and his opinion of "cultured" and college-trained workers? And how much about the physics of light did the wizard Steinmetz learn in college or other fields of "culture."
<J In the final analysis, the cinematographer, according to the fairest of present standards, is a pictorialist, judged by what he can produce on the screen, regardless of the fact whether or not he enjoys discussing Freud "off set" with male stars. And Mr. Sills cannot deny that the results which the cinematographer has produced on the screen are nothing short of remarkable — especially in view of the fact that he has created his calling, with zero as the starting point, within the period of the last twenty-five years. Nor do we believe that the cinematographers' accomplishments, gauged from the ultimate screen test, could have been made any more meritorious had they all immersed themselves, in universities ior elsewhere, in Mr. Sills' desired "culture."
<J The hotbeds of "culture" can do no more and no less toward turning out the best there can be in cinematography than have the university courses in dramatics and writing of plays done in producing master dramatists — and the latter applies from the time of Shakespeare to the day of George M. Cohan. For the good of the respective callings, cinematography cannot thrive on pedantry — no more than can playwriting or even acting!