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

308 Cl)e Cf)eatre pictures would solve the camera man's greatest problem of the near future, and when after some years of mixed activities in the publicity field Sargent joined the Lubin Company as Scenario Editor, he began to do things in filmdom on a big scale. As scenario editor and as photoplaywright, Sargent's experience has been of that character to wholly justify his being accepted as an authority on photoplay construction from almost any angle; hence, his first volume on "The Technique" was widely distributed and favorably reviewed all over the world. Toward the end of 1913, a second volume on the same theme, though practically an entirely new work, was published by the "Moving Picture World," after an overv/helming receipt of advance orders. At this time Mr. Sargent's activities are truly prodigious. Besides contributing exclusively to two regular departments — both of which he has made vital features of the publication — he writes many of the best essays that now appear in the "Moving Picture World ;" in fact, it is not too much to state that the amazing success of this the accepted weekly organ of the film industry is at least as much due to Sargent as to any other factor that can be pointed to. Scarcely a week ever passes that one of Sargent's photoplays is net released. The Lubin Company has released the greater number, but at the time of this writing t'ne Edison Company is producing some of the best work this author has ever done. In addition, Sargent contributes fiction stories galore to the magazines and special articles to magazines and newspapers alike. One day this facile writer may come forth as a playwright, though undoubtedly, like a few others, he is held fast by the lure of the camera m.an.