Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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1 MOTION PICTURE APPRECIATION "Say, I could make a better picture than that!" "Why, it isn't like the book at all!" Was it not only last night that someone made these two remarks in the lobby of your favorite theatre? They are familiar to the attendants of the 52,175 commercial talking picture theatres of the world. And they are heard, likewise, in the thousands of colleges, churches, and clubs which are equipped to show silent or talking films. The ever increasing millions of film fans may differ from one another radicallv concerning preference for Greta Garbo or Katharine Hepburn; Fredric A larch or Clark Gable; Norma Shearer or Claudette Colbert. They may prefer slapstick comedv to romance but they all seem to agree on two things: first, that pictures are absurdly easy to make and require no special training or aptitude; second, that motion picture producers in their treatment of books and stage plavs bought for film productions are like little bovs taking clocks apart and putting them together again. They apparently make changes without good reason. In the two quoted remarks above, one feels the need for a new and different approach to the subject of how to appreciate a modern talking picture. The belief that talkies are absurdly easy to make [1]