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 #:
000298
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:
August 29, 2024
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Talking Pictures Travelogues are cousins of the newsreel. They, too, are contributing their part to bring about eventual world peace by replacing exaggerated written opinion with actual pictures of people, places, and events. The monthly news review film is related to the newsreel. It permits a dramatization of events not possible to its day-by-day cousin. The careful observer of photoplay construction is aware of the contribution made by the finest commercial short subjects. They afford the basis upon which strictly educational films will be constructed in the future. They possess a realism which proves truth stranger than fiction, and a dynamic, unique power which excites the imagination in a manner strongly supplemental to the effect of the written word. Few, if any, single aspects of the motion picture offer a more universal appeal than ably filmed short subjects. To repeat a statement made at the start of this chapter, because it is not bound so tightly with fictional entertainment methods as the "full length" feature photoplay is, the short subject has been able to experiment more boldly than its longer brother. In films of undoubted educational import, it has proven that there is no real barrier between the field of entertainment and that of education. By gaining great success with historical and semiscientific subjects before persons who paid their way into theatres to be amused rather than to be educated, it has shown that entertainment and education are not at two separate poles. It is all a matter of the presentation of interest values. Shakespeare is still a delight to lovers of reading and [254]