NO MORE TALKIES?
FILMS OF THE FUTURE
Although the film plays such an important part in the ;life :of the community, the number of really intelligent books on the cinematic art is deplorably, few. There was, however, recently published in Germany an exhaustive and profound exposition of the sxibject entitled "Film A.13 Kuiist," by one of its leading critics, Herr Eudolf Arnheiin. This remarkable volume has now been translated from the original German by lan Morrow and L. M. Sicvekiug, with a preface by Paul Eotha. It may safely be recommended as one of the most interesting,, thorough, and provocativo statements on the more serious aspects of film making. The translation is simply entitled "Film."
One of the most controversial of Herr ArnheiiU's opinions is that the talkies form no part of film art. He believes that the talkie does not differ aesthetically, from the theatre in any way except in the fact that the theatre provides colour and plasticity, and that it gives the- real happenings. From the standpoint of talkie, plain, uncoloured reproductions of happenings are not in any senso advantageous. The use of coloured film, constitutes, ho believes, a real danger to the development of film art, but is of advantage in talkies. Another of his views that may provoke contradiction is that the plot of the film, whatever its genre, does not particularly matter. What is essential is to observo how any individual picture or individual scene is mounted, photographed, acted, and cut. His quotation fre:n the views, of M. Solsky, the director of 'the Moscow Sovkino, is in this connection particularly appropriate. "The talkie has no future. Wo have no intention of producing talkies hero nor of introducing speech into.films. In Russia, talkies have practically no advocates. On the Other hand, sound film not only has a great future, but it signifies a revolution of film, and of art altogether."
The work covers in its commentary every phase of art in celluloid.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 17
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327NO MORE TALKIES? Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 17
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