Film and theatre (1936)

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254 INDEX Once in a Lifetime, 37 O'Neill, Eugene, 61, 102, 141 Othello, 80, 166 Pabst, G. W., 36 Panning shot, 76 Pavlova, Anna, 40 Peter Ibbetson, 105, 107, 146 Petrified Forest, The, 1, 31, 186; comparison of stage play and screen play, 172-74 Phenakistoscope, 17 Photography, resources of, 41 Pictorial element in the film, 40 Pilgrim, The, 122 Pirandello, Luigi, 48, 102 Podrecca, 45 Poetry, modern, and the film, 176 77, 179-81; necessity of, in theatre, 185-88 Popular appeal of the film, 1-30, 49, 54-55 Prisoner of Share's Island, The, 188 Private Life of Henry the Eighth, The, 21 Private Lives, 157-58 Professional actors, in the film, 46, 57-58, 172-73 Progress, 143 Prosody, elements of, applied to film, 114-16 Psychological distance, theory of, 189-90 Pudovkin, V. I., 14, 42, 46, 47, 50, 51, 116, 120, 171-72 Puppets, in the film, 45 "Pure cinema," 9-1 1, 49, 54-55 Queen Christina, 21 Queen Mab, 27 Quo vadis, 19 Races, 142 Rain from Heaven, 186 Realism, in the theatre, 182-87 Reality, impression of, in film, 164 89 Reinhardt, Max, 87, 94, 178 Rhythm, in the film, 1 12-19 Rice, Elmer, 102 Richardson, Samuel, 30 Romance Sentimentale, 59, 60, in Romeo and Juliet, 31, 166, 170 Rotha, Paul, 77, 88, 120, 121 Roue, La, 49 Savo, Jimmie, 168 Scarlet Empress, The, 28 Scenery, in the theatre, 68, 73, 167, 188; in the film, 68, 73, 168, 188 Scenes a faire, in play and film, 156 School for Scandal, The, 172 Scott, Sir Walter, 175 Scoundrel, The, 28, 52, 75, 128, 141 Screen-play, in contrast to stage play, 129-30, 135-36, 149-60; in contrast to novel, 160-61 Screen -play, writers of, 162-63 Scrooge, 64 Sequences, in a film, 43 Sequoia, 59 Shakespeare, William, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 22, 32, 61, 80, 81, 82, 97, 101, 108, in, 163, 166, 172, 185; his plays in screen version, 178-81 Shakespearian imagery, 108-10, 179-81 Shaw, George Bernard, 34, 61, 164 65 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 27, 55, 115, 116, 118 She Loves Me Not, 181 Sheridan, R. B., 172, 175 Sherwood, Robert, 173, 186 Shots, in a film, 41-43; panning, 76; travelling, 76; rhythmic use of, 112-19 Sidney, Sir Philip, 4-6, 8, 9, 10, 15 Silver Tassie, The, 31 Singing Fool, The, 20, 122 Sleeping Clergyman, The, 81 Slow motion effects, 78-79, 92 Soliloquy, Shakespearian, in film treatment, 178 Sophocles, 10 So Red the Rose, 142, 148, 170 Sound, film, introduction of, 2021, 122-60; effects secured by, in film, 161-62; film, and silent film, 64, 120; control over, 95, 130-40; opposition to use of,