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 #:
000131
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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10 PROPERTIES Of the many trade terms used within the motion picture industry, the majority are original. Three, however, "spotlights," "grip," and "properties," are an inheritance from the stage. Properties are any physically movable articles used to provide atmospheric background for stage or screen plays, or which are handled by players during the physical action of such a play. The term was first used in a theatrical meaning in the fifteenth century. That meaning, for the stage play, has not changed since that time, and the word has been incorporated into the newer language of screen production. The stage has been responsible for many words which have enriched and expanded our language. Then along comes a new art, the motion picture, distantly related to the stage, but still differing from it in many ways. It was inevitable that it, too, should begin to evolve a language of its own, a language which includes such specialized terms as "close-ups," "fade-out," and "cut back." It was inevitable that the motion picture should take many words from its relative, the stage. One of the most important of these is "properties." Present-day descendants of fine old theatrical families like the Barrymores (the Blythes) , the Tearles, and the [101]