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 #:
000149
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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THE PHOTOPLAY gered for a long while in the minds of all those who had a serious relation to art. It probably still prevails today among many, even if they appreciate the more ambitious efforts of the photoplaywrights in the most recent years. The philanthropic pleasure in the furnishing of cheap entertainment and the recognition that a certain advance has re- cently been made seem to alleviate the es- thetic situation, but the core of public opinion remains the same; the moving pictures are no real art. And yet all this arguing and all this hasty settling of a most complex problem is funda- mentally wrong. It is based on entirely mis- taken ideas concerning the aims and purposes of art. If those errors were given up and if the right understanding of the moving pic- tures were to take hold of the commimity, no- body would doubt that the chromo print and the graphophone and the plaster cast are in- deed nothing but inexpensive substitutes for art with many essential artistic elements left out, and therefore ultimately unsatisfactory to a truly artistic taste. But everybody would recognize at the same time that the re- lation of the photoplay to the theater is a 140