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 #:
000291
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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Hollywood — The Madness of Movietone in the silent film was almost impregnable, fulminated against the movietone and swore never to make a speaking-film, though he did allow a possible utility in little obbligatos of noise. Vidor, Murnau, Lubitsch, Von Sternberg, and such directors as had been steadily developing film possibilities as m A FURY OF BUILDING aesthetic movement related to emotional events, saw before them the ruin of their carefully and patiently studied technique, to which was added the terror of wholly new and untried problems. Stars, imported from Europe and enjoying fabulous contracts, became aware that their hitherto uncouth linguistic experiments would hardly pass as competent dialogue ; while stars, even of pure American birth, must have been declaiming to their wives in the privacy of their bedrooms and wondering what the microphone would think of their often uncultured accents. Acrobats suddenly saw [>75]