An American moving-picture celebrity who has produced a picture in. New Zealand dealing with Maori life, is enthusiastic regarding the Maori as an actor, and his impressions are recorded in an article on this page. Hollywood itself, he says, cannot produce actors to equal their utter naturalness, their simplicity, their complete freedom from “camera-consciousness. The photograph above depicts a scene which he “shot” during the making of his picture. Note the complete forgetfulness of the camera by the children. They are totally absorbed in the story of the 200-year-old doll, and even the old warrior is lost in the telling.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 10
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100An American moving-picture celebrity who has produced a picture in. New Zealand dealing with Maori life, is enthusiastic regarding the Maori as an actor, and his impressions are recorded in an article on this page. Hollywood itself, he says, cannot produce actors to equal their utter naturalness, their simplicity, their complete freedom from “camera-consciousness. The photograph above depicts a scene which he “shot” during the making of his picture. Note the complete forgetfulness of the camera by the children. They are totally absorbed in the story of the 200-year-old doll, and even the old warrior is lost in the telling. Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 10
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