Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

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Record Details:

Title:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Date:
1931
Publisher:
London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Volume:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Leaf #:
000145
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:
June 20, 2024
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THE THREEPENNY OPERA (DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER) Directed by G. W. Pabst {Produced by Deutsche-First-National, Berlin, 193 1) So familiar are we become with the technique and production methods of the American cinema, and so plentiful is the product of its versatile studios, that we are beginning to forget how much has been done in the past by the great German directors, and how much more interesting has been their approach to the heart of real cinema than that of the big American companies. Within recent years most of us have given the greater part of our time to studying the rapid developments of the sound film, and we have perhaps forgotten ideas that were arising about the period when speech shattered the silent image. It is even possible that certain trends of cinematography were submerged in the riotous rush for dialogue — more especially in the German and French films of 1929 and 1930, which overlapped into the first year of the American dialogue cinema. Furthermore, so great has been the influx of the 105