Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Volume:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Leaf #:
000236
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Star-dust in Hollywood three," thus controlling the actors* movements as if they were set to bars of music. A great difference between the average film and the comic is that a reading of the average script often gives promise of better things than the finished picture. Though fundamentally the film is not naturally adapted to telling a story, COUNTING THE RHYTHM INTO IT it must do so, forced from the outside for commercial reasons. The story in the comic film is of little importance. The comedy concentrates on grotesque visible happenings, things themselves inherent in the art of picture-making. The script gives little idea of the finished comedy ; even the acted scenes are not often very comic to watch. The full flavour of the fun in a * comic ' shows on the screen only, while in an ordinary film the scenes as acted seem often far more effective than they appear in the filmed version. We noticed this especially in The Docks of New Tork. The comic does not separate the fun from the visual form, so that in long films such as those of Chaplin or in short [220]