The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00040
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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INNER DEVELOPMENT OF PICTURES allowed but which would hardly be possible in a theater. Hence the development led slowly to a certain deviation from the path of the drama. The difference which strikes the observer first results from the chance of the camera man to set his scene in the real back- grounds of nature and culture. The stage manager of the theater can paint the ocean and, if need be, can move some colored cloth to look like rolling waves; and yet how far is his effect surpassed by the superb ocean pictures when the scene is played on the real cliffs and the waves are thundering at their foot and the surf is foaming about the actors. The theater has its painted villages and vis- tas, its city streets and its foreign landscape backgrounds. But here the theater, in spite of the reality of the actors, appears thor- oughly unreal compared with the throbbing life of the street scenes and of the foreign crowds in which the camera man finds his local color. But still more characteristic is the rapidity with which the whole background can be changed in the moving pictures. Eeinhardt's revolving stage had brought wonderful sur- prises to the theater-goer and had shifted the 31