Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

Page scan 000217 from Celluloid : the film to-day

Record Details:

Title:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Date:
1931
Publisher:
London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Volume:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Leaf #:
000217
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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TELL ENGLAND Directed by Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Bursas (Produced by British Instructional Films Ltd., Welwyn Garden City, England, 1930) Since the Armistice was signed we have had, I suppose, several hundreds of films dealing with the World War from one or other of its many-sided aspects. Of them, perhaps a dozen have been produced having profound sincerity and which may be regarded as a true rendering of the greatest conflict of all time, made by men who are familiar with their grim subject. With the comedies of Chaplin and Keaton in Shoulder Arms and Forward March on the one side, the spectacular attempts like The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Big Parade, What Price Glory?, Wings and All Quiet on the Western Front on the other, and with a multitude of ordinary feature films such as Journey's End, Suspense,, Havoc, Roses of Picardy and Poppies in Flanders in the centre of the running, the War has been used as a box-office proposition times without number. In almost every case the War has served its purpose as the background to a story — preferably, of course, a 169