Universal Filmlexikon (1933)

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THE PATH TO THE TALKING SCREEN BY PRESIDENT GUSTAV RICKELT HONORARy DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE FEDERATION, PARIS The fihii, and paiticularly the talking film, has achieved undisputed sway in the cultural life of the nations. The talking film is a horn of plenty from which entertainment and inatruction is daily showered upon mankind, and contributes by its variegated gifts to the pleasures and joy of living. However, this great cultural achievement would have been impossible without the theatre. It was the theatre that gave the talking filnis its great chance, and it was theatrical people — actors, actresses, vocalists and directors who, apart from technical develoi)meni Have led the talking film to success and victory. Without actors from the prose and musical stage the screen would be unthinkable, and it is therefore understandable that stage actors should divide their interest between the talking screen and the stage. The theatre, of course, occupies first place in the actor s love and allegiance. In the theatre he is in bis natural artistic sphere, in that he is visible and audible in the flesh, whereas on the screen he is always handicapped by the technical dement, even when reproduction is perfect. This, of course, is to a great extent compensated for by the many other opportunities which only the talking screen with its many important artistic tasks and problems can offer. Besides, on the talking screen the artists' economic interests can be given far more generous consideration than is at present possible on the stage. It is therefore in the interests of every actor to establish contact with the talking film and talking film production. The screen offers opportunities for artistic and economic advancement to every real artist. Film producers are always on the look out for new, artistic and highly individual personalities. It is in the interests of all theatrical people, but particularly those engaged at the theatres outside Berlin, who are therefore far removed from the producing centres, to come within the survev of directors and production managers. The Parity Exchange, which also acts for the talking screen, may perhaps be of assistance to individual actors, but to the majority of them film production remains a terra incognita. In the present work, an unsurpassed Standard reference book which is published in three languages — German, English and French — the entire film world — actors, actresses, production managers, directors, and ever\'body eise concerned in the artistic, commercial. industrial or technical side of talking film production in the various European countries — are described and represented by word and picture. It gives not only a list of names and addresses (free of charge in the directory partI, but also photographs and biographical details that give a clear idea of the artist s personality, artistic merits and individual talents. I recommend all engaged in the theatrical profession to secure a place in this Lexicon, thereby securing their continued artistic and economic existence, Standing out of the crowd of countless thousands interested in the talking screen. and enabling production managers and directors to get into direct touch with them. PRESIDENT GUSTAVE RICKELT CONSEILLER HONORMRE DE L'UNiON INTERNATONALE DES PROFESSIONNELS DU THEATRE, PARIS LE CHEMIN VER LE CINEMA SONORE L'ascendant exerce actuellement par le prodige du cinema, et tout particulierement du cinema parlant, est tellement grand qu on ne voit rien qui puisse Fegaler a travers Thistoire de la civilisation des peuples. Le Film parlant . . . mais c'est une veritable corne d'abondance qui, journellement, deverse sur l'himianite ses intarissables dons multicolores: enseignement, gaite, — tout y passe dans une ambiance de curiosite eveillee et de joie de vivre! Sans le theatre, cependant. le cinema n"aurait jamais pu arriver ä la place preponderante qu il occupe actuellement dans le domaine de la civilisation mondiale. Le Film parlant a trouve ses voies preparees par le Theatre; il y puisa sa substance meme et son sens, ce qui lui ouvrit un large champ XXII