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way sever life from art and religion from bread and butter or, if you prefer it, bread and red wine or white wine, these Russian productions will offer a sustenance indeed like that shadow of a great rock '\ in the very weary land " of international dissension and internal discord.
For the world of the him to-day (there is no getting awav from it) is no longer the world of the him, it is the world. It is only those who are indift'erent to the world itself and its fate, who can afford to be indifferent to the fate of the film industry and the fate of the film art. The industry and the art are still divorced in most of the countries of Europe and the States of America. But no, not entirelv divorced. There has never been, perhaps «rince the days of the Italian Renaissance, so great a stirring in the mind and soul of the world consciousness. The " stirring " shows itself in little things, in the great-little people, in the very great and in the people. I was told the other day by one of the most intelligent of the English producers (in fact, by the most vibrantly intelligent mind that I have encountered anywhere in the film world) that the fate of the producers hangs for the large part not on the West End London theatre-goers, but on the provinces, and that the small town provincial box offices are demanding more and more and MORE " thick-ear stuff'." Well, where is this leading us? Concessions have been made to the public and (I heard the same complaint from one of the great German directors') the film art, the film industry is now in a state of psychic fixation. For the " thick-ear has set the standard, the slight concession has become a great concession, and the demand of the box office is fast becoming a command.
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