The Picture Show Annual (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1931
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1931)
Leaf #:
000119
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Global Cinema, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Picture Show Annual 109 Cy^LKIES bring a - 7 New Type g/° Comedian Comedians went back to the stage method and told us funny stories instead of acting them as in the days of silent pictures. The art of pantomime, revived after many, many years by the cinema, became as dead as a boarding- house joint of mutton served up on Tuesday. But if we picturegoers have lost something by the gesture and the action that told the story (helped out, it is true, by the silent caption), we have gained something by the warm touch of the voice. Take, for instance, " The Two Black Crows." Their WHEN the microphone broke the silence of the pictures, it was inevitable that we should have other types of actors and actresses. The joke that was made by a gestur. or an action—from that eloquent shrug of the shoulders by the inimitable Charlie Chaplin, to the very ordinary action of the throwing of a custard pie by a slapstick comedian—had to be in words. Franklin Pangborn. put over El Brendel's quaint soft voice and accent brought him quickly to fame where before he had been just another silent comedian, struggling for success.