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Your correspondent, IMiSS Fitz-Simonds, is concerned with the question whether the film can c > iie an art and with the question whether music is necessary to a fihn.
As to the first ; I aa: :'Jt that Mr. Kardy, whom Miss Fitz-Simonds was answering, was wrong u: -tating that a popular form of entertainment can never become an art, > v t I think IMiss Fitz-Simonds will agree that since much practise and expn^iment is required before the film can be made a purely artistic mediunj, .. iid as the cost of such practise and experiment is comraritively enormous, it will be a long time before anything approaching perfertion can be prodi ccd.
As to the question oi ausical accompaniment, I believe that a film mav be shown without music A it does not require it, but if music is used it should be composed for and w.cii a film. At present music limps after the film as best it can. The ni i^iC used in cinemas to-day was never written to accompany a particulai ilm and however suitable a piece of music may appear to be it can nev r be saying the same thing as a film it was never intended to accompany. aless the music is composed for the film, or the film composed for the . . _c — as in the case of The Rosexkavaijer — the accompaniment w.U . r be in pf;rfect harmony with the film. (TOM IvYON, LOXBOX.)
I am just an orvlin the screen because in I seem to have growi. as all that I) My op. ^ ledge of the fihn-iii believe you are right that the screen woul supported by the iii . w-ere individuals, tb
f iiregoer with more than an average interest in reading are my favourite pastimes ; indeed, /ill the cinema. (Xo, no, no ' I am not as old i ly be of no value and I have no practical know— out, I do think there is artistry in movies, I 4 ting that the screen is an art. I used to think ^e universally recognised as such until it was Literature could flourish because its patrons V as essentially a plaything for the masses and
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