Word: film set
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...esthetics. Nowhere is music so utterly necessary as in cinemas. Plays are set to music, but plays can be given without music. It is a curious thing that some sort of music has become necessary to the cinema. Somehow even at its very beginning the silent drama, in order to please its public (not an esthetic public), had to have sound. That sound was music. It is a common feeling with movie fans that a stretch of picture without music seems unnatural. Few people have witnessed a film exhibition without the accompaniment of at least a piano. A certain dramatic...
Many attempts were made after the Willard-Johnson match at Havana to effect a lawful entry of the pictures of the fight. Finally, a camera was set up eight inches south of the boundary between New York and Canada. Eight inches north of the line a box was set up, and an original positive film of the fight pictures was run off through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained...
This thesis might be set down as film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...
Discovered by F. O'Brien! We'll film his cannibal savages So no one can say he's lyin'!" So should have sung, if they didn't, the crew of the old-time whaling bark Narwhal, which set sail from San Francisco recently with a complement of some 20 adventurers who had heard of the money magnates make in the movies and didn't see why they shouldn't make some themselves. They incorporated themselves as the Mutual Trading Company and expect to be gone eight or ten months, filming hula-maids...
...What is needed for the normal, healthy development of the moving pictures is good fiction of a distinctive type. It must have, besides dramatic possibilities, "color" and good delineation of character. Great novels of the past have been unearthed, revamped, and set before the public as "super-productions". Myths have been blended into history to make a film character of Robin Hood. "Eugenie Grandet", rechristened "The Conquering Power," made a "gripping photo-drama". But in all of these the character has appeared ready-made for the actor to interpret. The average scenario supplies nothing more than the mechanics...