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trained. Many of the professions into which the colleges are sending their graduates are over-crowded — so the field of the motion picture will become a desirable one.
Speed is one of the greatest evils of the motion picture industry today. Some companies rush through a programme, and then close down for several months.
The great interest in stories is the unusual. Creating this by continually bringing in ridiculous coincidences will end by irritating the cinema public.
Veterans of the world war are often extremely critical as to proper depicting of conditions during the great struggle — often to the point of wishing to sacrifice the story to some minor point of realistic presentation.
The World War as a theme has been widely used, in fact overused. Some of the pictures and pathetic incidents have been so badly overdone as to become almost comedy. But there are no doubt hundreds of angles to the World War which have never even been touched upon.
Of themes of the past, there is only one which has been overdone and that is the " Wild West ". The unfortunate part of it is that many of these " Westerns " have been been of inferior grade, while the best ones have often copied from each other.
There is a succession of type sheriffs, outlaws, Indians, covered wagon caravans, with accompanying Indian attacks, etc. Yet there have been very few motion pictures dealing with the pioneer days before the gold rush times. This is partly due to the chaacter of the country adjoining Hollywood, but it should be possible to find some places giving the right atmosphere of the Eastern coast.
Included in research, must be a great deal of experiment. Let stars be permitted some of their high-salaried time for trying out new characterizations, even though nothing be done with them. Let the directors of period stories know thoroughly the history of the times the story depicts — for that matter the actors might also be given some study of history as a side-line.
The motion pictures have been so popular that the public has seemed to take anything that was given it. But lately there has been a great deal of discontent with the " talkies ". The talking films demand a higher standard of production than the silent pictures. The reasons is that sound effects serve to distract the attention of the audience from the general theme of the picture. Another reason is that the talking picture must become far more closely allied to the stage play than previously.