Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin (1954)

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Title:
Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin
Date:
1954
Publisher:
London : Vision Press Limited
Volume:
Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin
Leaf #:
000334
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2025
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78 FILM ACTING fix all this and ' can ' it in a definite shape. Although it is not disputed that at each subsequent performance the actor will continue in a degree to develop his role, yet the element of learning by rote, fixing, and c canning ' his acting is inevitably present in the theatre to a considerable degree, Thus the stage producer at a given point cedes his place to the spectator, and the show reaches its perfect form without, already, his direct participation. In the cinema the burden of the element of ' canning ' and memorising is removed from the minds of actor and director by the mechanism of the visual and sound cameras and by the laboratory, which indefinitely multiplies copies from a single negative. In fact, until the very last, the culminating moment of their joint creative work, the actor and the director in the cinema march in the liveliest and most direct contact.