Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

66 CELLULOID college, not only because of its obvious superiority over present methods and its facilities for standardization of systems, but in order to meet the demand of future generations who will be film-minded. Educational authorities who raise objections against the use of the cinema invariably forget this most important point, that the public of to-day and the growing generation who will form the public of to-morrow are rapidly becoming film-conscious, even though authoritative bodies may remain blind to the potentialities of the cinema. It is true that various commissions for educational and cultural films are already in formation and give appearances of investigating the ground, but unfortunately they seem to spend more time in inspecting the past than in widening their vision to embrace the future. We still find persons talking in terms of silent educational films shown on sub-standard projectors— a method that may be obsolete before many years. It is most urgent that these responsible bodies should grasp the immensity of their problem and look ahead rather than back at the miserable past of the educational cinema. REPERTORY FILM MOVEMENT Remarkable though it may seem in consideration of the large public interested in the serious side of the cinema, there has not as yet been established a repertory theatre of the film. Most filmgoers will admit, I think, that there are certain films of the past which, because of their achievement at their time of