The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

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Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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prefatotp jn^ote In 1910 the present writer (in the second of this series of volumes) ventured the prediction that the motion picture play ivould change the theatrical map in this country before 1915. In that year the productivity of the film studio was still partly of the grade ivhich caused vaudeville managers to rely on it as an effective "chaser." The tei'm "photoplay" had just 'been suggested hy Mr. Edgar Strakosch as a result of an effort on the part of the Essanmj Film Company of Chicago to obtain an appropriate classification for its releases then gradually assuming a plane higher than in previous year's. In a later volume published in 1912 the author icas emboldened to ivarn the theatrical producers that their tendency to ignore the infi.uence of the camera man was calculated to hasten the day when catering to the public's entertainment along scientific lines would create an upheaval in theatredom. The following year the number of producers for the speaking stage was the smallest it had been in thirty years, and now all but one of the still surviving play producers have capitulated — the majority affiliating with the established film produc