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The Pichurepver
DECEMBER 1925
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The proof of the screen pudding is in the filming.
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The master chefs of the motion picture industry are comparatively few. Chaplin, Lubitsch, Seastrom, Stiller (the only remaining Swedish director, who was responsible for The Atonement of Gosta Bcrling), Rex Ingram, and, perhaps, James Cruze.
For the rest there are plenty of " good plain cooks," who can be depended upon to turn out palatable
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ovies and Christmas pudings !
On first thoughts there seems to be little connection between the two, but as a matter of fact they have a number of things in common.
A Christmas pudding can be very good or very bad. and. here
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again, although the ingredients may sometimes be to blame, it is the director who mixes those ingredients with whom the chief responsibility rests.
If that director is the equivalent of an overworked cook-general, with an imagination incapable of rising above unsavoury Irish stew, then his picture will be as unappetising an affair as the hitter's attempt at a Christmas pudding. But if he stands on the level of
the master chefs, then there will DC about the films that he produces, that rare and subtle something that characterises the work of all great masters, whether they he wizards of the studio or of the kitchen.
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enough film concoctions at any time, and a far too large number of incompetents, with less idea of making a picture than the average pantryboy has of making a pudding.
The secret of good cooking, as anybody skilled in the culinary arts will tell you, is the knowledge of exactly how to mix your ingredients, and exactly Iwzv much seasoning to include.
The Secret of film making is very much the same, for a film without any
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Top left: Lois Wilson. Raymond McKcc, and Xoah Beery in " Contraband." Centre : Mary Brough and friends indulge in a little music in " Not For Sale." Above : Raymond Hatton with Paul Panzer and Yvonne Hughes in " Big Brother."