Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

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Foreign Cineman Glances Over Above is a scene from a German film called "Such Are Men." Mr. Ziegfeld's influence seems to have extended to the Eastern hemisphere. Right is the beautiful Russian star, Mme. Kovanko, who has the lead in a photoplay based on Turgenef's "The Song of Love Triumphant" FRANCE THERE are certain advantages in failure and the failure of French films to conquer the American market, tho marking a definite commercial setback for French .producers, is already beginning to show artistic benefits which might have been much longer in developing had the effort to invade America been successful. t As pointed out last month, French as well as other foreign producers, with the vast transatlantic market luring them, have been concocting film monstrosities supposedly conceived after the American pattern but in the end failing to be either American or anything else ; a mongrel product in which American invention was grotesquely travestied and European artistrx basely betrayed. The mistake of the foreign producers was that they chose to compete with America in the one field in which they had no chance, lavishness of production, while they ignored the one element which alone could place them on a footing with American productions, the advantages of Old World background and Old World artistry. This error has evidently been perceived now, and the result, so far as France is concerned, is a series of films which, diverging widely from the American standard, yet can hold its head up beside the best American productions. The completeness of the about-face in French film methods may be seen in the fact that within the last two or three months at least half a dozen productions have appeared in which extreme simplicity of setting is the rule and in which the native soil is dramatized and native talent is given the full burden of the film. A beginning in this direction, and a most successful one, was made with "Crainquebille," Anatole France's masterpiece, with the star role entrusted to De Feraudy, one of the Above is Pedro de Cordoba in an English film, "I Will Repay." Right is a scene from the picture version of Mallarme's immortal poem, "Genevieve" (Twenty-sir)