The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

Record Details:

Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00047
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY altogether. Superficial impressions suggest the opposite and stUl leave the esthetically careless observer in the belief that the photo- play is a cheap substitute for the real drama, a theater performance as good or as bad as a photographic reproduction allows. But this traditional idea has become utterly untrue. The art of the photoplay has developed so many new features of its own, features which have not even any similarity to the technique of the stage that the question arises: is it not really a new art which long since left behind the mere film reproduction of the theater and which ought to he acknowledged in its own esthetic independence? This right to inde- pendent recognition has so far been ignored. Practically everybody who judged the photo- plays from the esthetic poiat of view re- mained at the old comparison between the film and the graphophone. The photoplay is still something which simply imitates the true art of the drama on the stage. May it not be, on the contrary, that it does not imitate or replace anything, but is in itself an art as dif- ferent from that of the theater as the painter's art is different from that of the sculptor? And may it not be high time, in the interest 38