Cinelandia (April 1931)

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mes nos llega de los estudios Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. Los jefes de dicha compañía han decidido suspender inmediatamente la producción de peliculas en español. El film “Paid” y una película de * Buster Keaton que ya estaban a medio filmar han sido suspendidas y la cinta “El proceso de Mary Dugan” que el director Borcosque se disponía a principiar, ha sido cancelada de acuerdo con la orden citada. La noticia, que probablemente será debidamente confirmada para cuando este número entre en prensa, añade que el personal español del estudio será despedido y que un cambio total de programa se llevará a efecto muy en breve. Ya sabíamos, como debidamente mencionamos en nuestro editorial anterior, que la producción en español en los estudios hollywoodenses se hallaba casi paralizada por completo y también presentíamos que algo ocurría que presagiaba un cambio completo en la producción de parlantes hispanas. Sin embargo, estábamos bien seguros que la Metro concluiría de filmar las tres cintas que se hallaban en estado de filmación antes de suspender la producción enteramente. Por eso mismo la noticia nos causa gran sorpresa. La repentina suspensión de actividades en el departamento español de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, con el consiguiente derroche inútil de miles de dólares ya invertidos en los dos films referidos, significa que nuestras repetidas observaciones én estas columnas eran bien fundadas. La producción hispana en la forma que se ha llevado a cabo hasta ahora, sólo podía traer una gran pérdida económica y de prestigio. E. NOTICIA más asombrosa de este 1 JUAN J. QUIZAS presagie algo más importante. Puede ser que la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer haya encontrado la manera de darnos los films originales hechos aquí con los artistas hablando “! muestra propia lengua. Es muy probable también que los aficionados al cine hispano hayan declarado su real voluntad a la forma más definida y potente que existe: las entradas Aa Todos ellos desean continuar viendo en la pan“la a sus artistas favoritos y no están aún listos para aceptar os substitutos que las empresas hollywoodenses han querido arles a la fuerza. e e asegura que la era de sincronización perfecta de la E. pal llegar y no nos sorprendería que tal perfección Ñ dif . suliciente satisfactoria para acabar de una vez con "cil problema de la producción extranjera. Oda lo ya dicho en estas columnas en distintas ocams e que la verdadera solución estriba en hacer los as gmales en inglés de acuerdo con la técnica de las mudas que hicieron del cine un arte (waala página 62) PUBLICADA ABRIL, 1931 CINELANDICAS MORENO Director e OD EN HOLLYWO IKE a bolt from the blue came this month the announcement from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot that all Spanish production has been suspended. “Paid” and Buster Keaton's picture, already half way through production, have been definitely stopped, and “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” which Borcosque was to direct, is slated to be cancelled in accordance with the latest change of program. The repórt, which in all probability will be openly coñifizmed by the studio by the time this issue góés to press, indicates that all the Spanish personnel will be dismissed shortly and that an entirely new form of procedure is to take effect immediately. We already knew, as mentioned in our last editorial, that the production of Spanish talkies was marking time and we certainly sensed that a certain something was in the air that promised well needed changes in this incipient branch of the industry. However, we thought, as did everybody else, that Metro-GoldwynMayer would finish the scheduled filming of three more pictures before abandoning Spanish production, and so the news comes as a distinct surprise. 3 HIS sudden and complete cessation of activities in the Spanish department of M-G-M, with the scrapping of money already spent in two productions, can mean only one thing. It is a complete vindication of our repeated statements that the production of Spanish talkies as conducted heretofore, was only meant to bring financial and artistic disaster for those companies who persisted in going ahead on such inefficient basis. And it means something else if we are not mistaken. It means that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have found a way to successfully present their original pictures made in English with the original characters talking in our language. It also means that the Spanish fans have made their wishes felt through the ultimate and definite medium of the wellknown box-office receipts. As they have often expressed in their letters to CINELANDIA, they want to continue seeing their screen favorites and are not yet ready for substitutes that have been forced on them from Hollywood. We are assured that the day of perfect synchronization in all languages is about to arrive, and we would not be surprised to see its perfection so entirely satisfactory that it will be the answer to the whole bothersome problem of foreign talkies. : As we have repeatedly asserted in these columns, we think that pictures would revert to the old standard of action technique leaving the word and sound to sup(turn to page 62) 7