Talking pictures : how they are made, how to appreciate them (c. 1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made, how to appreciate them
Date:
c. 1937
Publisher:
Richmond : Johnson Publishing Company
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made, how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
00071
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Technology
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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Dreams Wanted When a film company announced in the fall of one year that the photoplay, Romeo and Juliet, would be ready for exhibition by summer of the following year, scores of high school English teachers arranged their courses to bring the study of this play closer to the release of the picture. They did this as part of the growing recognition by educators that the presentation of great works of literature on the screen inspires students to read these works with more intense interest. Libraries have grown more and more sensitive to the public interest in filmed literary classics. The Minneapolis Public Library reported exceptional interest in a special file it keeps of the latest reviews on the best motion pictures. The Cleveland library, previously mentioned, and others provide tables of supplementary reading for those whose imaginations have been fired by the project of translating a literary classic into screen form. Let us assume that the impossible and unusable material has been taken from twenty thousand possibilities; that several scores of excellent stories are ready for inspection by the executives. Let us follow these stories into a "story conference" and see the next step in the important activity of selecting and preparing a talking picture for actual production. [47]