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Talking Pictures
that same motion picture there would be a gem of a setting by Cameron Menzies or Cedric Gibbons. The lady in fault would also be carried to new heights of physical beauty by the gown creations of an Adrian or an Orry-Kelly. The lighting by some unknown electrician, the photography by a William Daniels, a Karl Freund, an Oliver Marsh would be exquisite.
"And in like manner we have all seen the perfect acting of a perfectly chosen cast in a deft, well-directed story, robbed of its full values by unattractive sets, incompetent research, faulty sound recording — dozens of different but equally important elements.
"It is absurd to use the unqualified adjective 'bad' in connection with an art that will always be mosaic in its character.
"It is absurd, further, for anyone to try to criticize a motion picture with no more knowledge than he needs for the criticism of a book or play.
"In other words, you can't really evaluate a motion picture unless you are able to take the whole thing apart, and then reassemble it, accurately, correctly."
This is not only true of motion pictures. One cannot understand a poem unless he knows the background of the poem and something of the author's life. Nor can one find the inner meaning of a picture by Leonardo da Vinci or of a great cathedral unless he knows what actual vision, insight, and power went from the artist or the architect into his work.
To accept a thing blindly indicates a narrow mind, a limited outlook. If we are to understand anything and to form a sound opinion of it, we must analyze it,
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