Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00058 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00058
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE ACTING breath control and voice* production to be able to think of anything else. Perfect diction, yes! But Heaven preserve us from the speaker or actor who seems to sample every word before he utters it and labors over every syllable until he reminds us of a horse gathering itself for a hurdle, simply because he fears he may come a cropper over some inelegancy of speech. Of course, he must not say, "I saw ut," but need he come to a full stop and figuratively gird his loins before that final pronoun? Not if he has the brains to work on his English and learn to say, "I saw it," with no thought of guarding against an atrocity. Do you remember what I said about walking on the street and around your room, learning to handle your body and limbs easily and naturally, and then forgetting to think of them at all? Well, that's the way you learn to speak good English. You work at it all the time until you can speak without having to remember to be careful. First, if you do not already own one, go out and buy yourself a dictionary and keep it beside you when you read. If you don't know them, learn your diacritical markings—but thoroughly. That is, if you are using an old-fashioned dictionary. I think it only fair to tell you that there are such 32