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 #:
000162
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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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Directed by Lewis Milestone {Produced by Universal Pictures, Universal City, California, U.S.A., 1929-30) It is not often that the occasion arises for Hollywood to be complimented on an achievement, but when it does, the process of congratulation becomes doubly entertaining. For so many years the American film industry has to our way of thinking consistently done the wrong thing that when a notable work of undeniable merit is produced — not by accident but by deliberate intention — we may well express surprise, and doubt what we have just witnessed. Knowing the picture sense of the Hollywood showmen as well as we do, it is disconcerting, to say the least, when these hardboiled celluloid exploiters, quite suddenly and without any warning, produce a film that is outside the ordinary limits of Hollywood picture production. But then this is half the amusement of the film business — this delightful unexpectedness. Within the last few months anything might have come out of the Hollywood factories, for so great has 120