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 #:
000292
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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238 CELLULOID cinematic means, the idea and material of this film as staged by Lang would have held a stream of audiences spell-bound for many months. But as it is The Woman in the Moon shows no real advance since Metropolis, and that was almost five years ago, a long time in the history of the cinema. In certain respects a showman, definitely a great metteur-en-scene, but only partially a film director, Fritz Lang is to be reckoned as a force in the worldcinema; his bigness of outlook compels our admiration. Happily he is only as yet half-way through his film career. There is still time for him to come to understand more fully the basic principles of cinematography and to employ them in an exposition of his vast conceptions. When this shall happen, I foresee films of unbelievable magnitude.