FilmIndia (May-Dec 1938)

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September 1938 FILM INDIA think and feel, the novel by giving in words the author's confidential information, the film by revealing it in symbolic flashes. It is evident that many successful films have a looseness of literary structure that is like the novel and gets away from what we think of as dramatic structure. The picture, like the novel, may select whatever viewpoint it chooses. But of course, the novelist paints in words and leaves it to his readers to envision the looks of his characters, the background and even the action, according to their individual culture and imagination. The cinema paints for the eye. In the best pictures, words play only a secondary part, dialogue is reduced to a minimum, description disappears altogether, because the audience "sees for itself". This is why the literary writer is often a failure as a scenario writer. MUSIC AND THE CINEMA. Music and the cinema have entered into very close relations. Quite apart from those pictures which are almost operatic, rhythm, melody, musical emotion are being used more and more in the very structure of filmic plays. The two senses that are closest to our emotional life, sight and hearing, unite, each to intensify the effect of the other. So some of the best musical talent of the world is finding its way to picture studios, ENJOY Eternal Youth and Beautiful Figure. FIGURFINE Bust Developing Set, rebuilds fallen, flat and undeveloped bust, due to illness Motherhood, or General Debility. Set of three Bottles Rs. 15. For free literature write to' CONTINENTAL DRUG STORES 115, Prixcbi m rket. Bombay adapting fine music to the film. Notable, for example, is the way Walt Disney uses good music as an intrinsic part of his Silly Symphonies, or the way in which the elf-like piper in "The Firefly" stirs up the tired mules by his piping, and everything in the scene, from the wagging of the mule's ears to the swaying of the stage coach, sways to the same rhythm, until the audience itself feels the swing. It is evident that architecture, dancing, sculpture, artistic composition such as appears in painting all play their subservient part in the film. As colour promises to be more and more used, both artistic composition and a study of the psychology of colour (as shown in Disney's "Snow White") will play more important parts. So the film gathers something from drama, from literature, from music, from the pictorial and plastic arts. Yet it is none of these. Its tools and its methods are its own. (Courtesy: The Motion Picture and The Family). The Beer that is famous for its Flavour and Quality, AMST BEER A glass of it every day makes you feel happy and refreshed Exchange its crown stoppers for useful free gifts. afoL <tf4« INDIA INTERNATIONAL CO., Readvmoney Mansion CI lurclieate Street, Fort, Bombay. 51