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 #:
000185
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 pantomime almost the real background of all dramatic development. We know how popu- lar the pantomimes were among the Greeks, and how they stood in the foreground in the imperial period of Eome. Old Eome cherished the mimic clowns, but still more the tragic pantomimics. "Their very nod speaks, their hands talk and their fingers have a voice." After the fall of the Eoman empire the church used the pantomime for the portrayal of sa- cred history, and later centuries enjoyed very unsacred histories in the pantomimes of their ballets. Even complex artistic tragedies without words have triumphed on our pres- ent-day stage. "L'Enfant Prodigue" which came from Paris, "Sumurun" which came from Berlia, "Petroushka" which came from Petrograd, conquered the American stage; and surely the loss of speech, while it in- creased the remoteness from reality, by no means destroyed the continuous conscious- ness of the bodily existence of the actors. Moreover the student of a modern panto- mime cannot overlook a characteristic differ- ence between the speechless performance on the stage and that of the actors of a photo- play. The expression of the inner states, the 176