Stars of the photoplay : over one hundred art portraits of famous film favorites with short biographical sketches (1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Stars of the photoplay : over one hundred art portraits of famous film favorites with short biographical sketches
Date:
1916
Publisher:
Chicago : Photoplay Magazine
Volume:
Stars of the photoplay : over one hundred art portraits of famous film favorites with short biographical sketches
Leaf #:
00015
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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ATRIOTIC critics Kave long contended that when the time came for A merica s complete dramatic expression, this country v?ould produce not only artists of the first order, but its own works for their interpretation. Even the enthusiasts have been distanced : this allegedly commercial people has not onl$ wrought plays and reared people to play them, but has brought toward perfection an entirely new medium of imaginative expression — the first new art-form since the age of Pericles. The Photoplay — yesterday, the "Motion Picture" — is now one of the Nation's greatest industries, and is the most useful of all arts, for it serves : it recreates, cheers, uplifts and broadens mentally and spiritually countless thousands. Yet eVen the ultra-connoisseur cannot sa>) that it has not grown elaborate, imaginative and honestly reflective of life. Herein Photoplay) Magazine has endeavored to unfold a pictorial scroll of the Neu> Art. This collection of more than one hundred photographic reproductions does not pretend to contain ever}) w^orthj) photoplay actor or actress, but it is fully representative of the men and women who made and are making this art-industrp's interpretations.