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 #:
000200
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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CIMARRON Directed by Wesley Ruggles (Produced by Radio Pictures, Hollywood, U.S.A., 1930) The gigantic sweep of the American cinema today, embracing every conceivable type of story, has sprung with logical development through the course of years from two distinct (yet curiously related) sources of origin — the Slapstick and the Western. Years before sex-appeal was thought entertaining or gangsters considered heroes, before Sternberg became clever or Lubitsch went to America, the cinema was seriously concerned with stories of fat men who batted each other over the head and lean cowboys who were in a constant state of riding to the rescue at the critical moment. Strange though it may seem to the sophisticated filmgoer of to-day, crude as these films were, they contained the main essentials of what we have come to call the science of cinematography. What mattered to Mack Sennett and the anonymous makers of the Westerns was action — whether of horses, railway trains, motor-cars or simply of Kops chasing a comedian. Speed was the be-all and end 154