OPERA HOUSE
“CHANG.” “Natural drama.” is introduced to the screen by “Chang.” It is tho fear of the producers, Messrs. Cooper and Schoedsack, that the public will look upon the film, before seeing it, as a travelogue. Merian Cooper inisists that it- is straight drama, with suspense, comedy moments, and a story. “Natural drama,” explains Mr. Cooper, “is drama produced with natural actors in their own environment. living the story of their lives, and their, struggle for existence. Tho story which we have set in the jungle is the story of people surrounded by a superabundance of food. There ,is constant menace that this teeming vegetable and animal life will overwhelm the humans struggling against it. On this is the story built. We chose a family m the jungle for our central characters, and the drama of their life is the drama of the picture, stark, real, tense. In photographing the lives of these people, we always kept the dramatic values in mind, and believe that we have made a picture equalling in drama anything made in. a studio.’’ “Chang” opens next Monday night at the Opera House.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10733, 2 November 1928, Page 6
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