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

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Talking Pictures trical, photographic, and acoustical — which have been made in the film industry, and which will continue to be made by it for years to come. Today the person really sincere in his ambition to be a part of the screen's future knows that exceptional financial rewards go to only a few, for special and unique reasons; that for the majority there is only a compensation reasonable to the profession involved. Those who are entering the pictures are concerned more with the satisfaction of achievement in a great new field than with its financial compensation. In other words an unhealthy mental approach to the screen has been replaced by one which is healthy and normal. The screen's great future is unquestioned. That it could in fifty years have risen from custard-pie comedy to The Good Earth, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Romeo and Juliet, Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, or David Copperfield makes the possibilities of its progress within the next century almost illimitable. Those who wish to embrace the screen as a career must do it wholeheartedly, not in the spirit of one young college graduate who had a fine reputation as an amateur actor. He wanted work in motion pictures. He was a good type and, even though young, an excellent technician. But in his conversations he remained aloof, even sullen. Finally the reason was discovered. He admitted that he despised the screen. He was seeking work as a screen actor only in order to make enough funds to take him to New York, where he proposed to seek work on the stage. [78]