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 #:
000231
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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LE MILLION Directed by Rene Clair {Produced by Films Sonores 7 obis-Paris, 1931) If the introduction of mechanically-recorded speech and sound into the resources of the cinema has exercised a retrograde influence in some centres of production by sacrificing the pictorial image to the spoken word, on the other hand the use of sound has brought sudden recognition to certain directors whose work previously was familiar only to a restricted few. Just as the possibilities of counterpoint sound and music have realized the very best in Lubitsch, so they have plunged Rene Clair and his work into an unexpected halo of limelight. To any critic of the cinema who has watched the development of Clair for several years past, it is diverting to observe the excited childishness of Wardour Street renters and gossip-spilling film writers as they awake to the fact that Clair has been making films since 1922, and that they had never heard of him until a few months ago. It must have come as a serious shock to the big producers when Clair's two 181