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February 1, 1922
THE AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
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National Board of Review Choice of 1921 Exceptional Photoplays
^HAT is the best in photoplays for the year 1921?
Experts, critics and movie fans from all over the country are compiling and submitting lists of their selection of the year's best product on the screen. The Critique Committee of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, under whose auspices is published the critical bulletin, Exceptional Photoplays, has issued the list of pictures which have been reviewed as "exceptional" in the bulletin from January, 1921, to December, 1921.
In order to attain the rank of exceptional, those pic tures were first seen by review committees who then submitted them for final judgment to the Committee on Critique, whose membership includes people from many professions and walks in life, besides expert technicians and motion picture critics. The following is the alphabetical list of pictures reviewed as having achieved the highest rank, in Exceptional Photoplays during 1921 :
All for a Woman, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The City of Silent Men, The Conquering Power, Deception, The First Born, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, "The Golem, The Great Adventure, The Kid, The Love Light, One Arabian Night, Over the Hill, The Passion Flower, A Small Town Idol, Theodora, The Three Musketeers, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Way Down East.
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gERT CANN, A. S. C, has been a knight of the camera for nearly ten years and during that time he has sent to the screen many popular successes. "231/2 Hours'
Leave," directed by Henry King and f e a t u r ing Douglas McLean and Doris May, is his favorite of the long list of his productions, but of almost equal excellence are "Mary's A n k 1 e," "Let's Be Fashionable," "The Jailbird," "The Rookie's Return," "One a M i n u t e," "T h e Home S t r e t c h," "Passin' T h r u," "Chickens," "Bell Boy 13," all Ince Productions; "The Foolish Age," "Eden and Return," Robertson-Cole productions.
Mr. Cann has had experience in the laboratory and has devoted much attention to research along lines of his own selection for, like all forward looking men he sees a glorious future in store for the movies and is preparing himself to share in it.