Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Date:
1931
Publisher:
London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Volume:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PREFACE This would seem to be the most fitting place in this survey to record the great loss sustained by the cinema in the recent deaths of F. W. Murnau, Lupu Pick and Edmund Meisel. All three were sincere artists who contributed much to the progress of the film, and yet their departure has received but casual mention in the English Press. I think the name of Murnau will live longest in the mind of the student, for the films he made during the golden period of the German cinema were without exception noble pieces of craftsmanship. Dracula, Phantom, The Last Laugh, Tartuffe and Faust, produced between 1922 and 1926, supply plentiful proof of Murnau's genius for the cinema. In the Fox studios at Hollywood, whither he went with Karl Mayer, the scenarist, in 1927, he commanded the greatest respect, but we were too well acquainted with American methods of production to expect Sunrise, The Four Devils and Our Daily Bread to be anything except shadows of his German accomplishment. By the time this is being read his last film, Tabu, made in the Society Islands with the aid of Robert Flaherty and his own finance, will have been shown in England. ix