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

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 #:
000503
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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306 Ci)e Cijeatre CHAPTER XV. Considerable literature in the shape of volumes, the number of which is increasing, particularly this year, has been issued on the technic of the photoplay. But few of these have been helpful to the scenario writer, and the tendency for unknown writers who embrace this difficult endeavor without the least practical experience to pose as authorities, has brought about a condition wherein the writer has thought it incumbent upon him to endeavor to separate the wheat from the chaff, in that not over six of more than a hundred such volumes have been prepared by authors whose expression is due to actual achievement as photoplaywrights or from an association with the film studio's scenario departments. Perhaps the most able of all of the gentlemen in this field is Epes Winthrop Sargent, a forceful writer of vast experience in the field of the theatre. Sargent hails from the West Indies, and he first attracted attention when he came to New York to become the vaudeville critic of the "Morning Telegraph" about twenty years ago. Under the nom de plume of "Chicot" his writings aroused widespread interest and no little protest from the vaudeville performer ; in fact.