PRODUCTION METHODS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 3

PRODUCTION METHODS.

MOVIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. “There are no such things as European or American methods of motion picture direction,” declares Dimitri Buchowetzki, “there are only good or bad directors.” Sweeping away the impression that directors of the old world followed peculiar methods of their own which differed entirely from those in vogue among American directors, Buchowetzki paraphased Oscar Wilde’s famous statement that “there are no such things as moral or immoral books; they are only well or badly written.” Brought to America from Europe, Dimitri Buchowetzki immediately made himself at home in the motionpicture studios. The fact that he was thoroughly familiar with every detail of the studio equipment bore out his statement that American and European methods do not differ very widely. “Every director brings to bear the peculiarities of his own personality and this produces results which may be very different,” says the Russian director. “W’e all visualise situation differently, but it is not right to say we have different methods which can b<» classified under continental names. All directors, Amepcan and European, are simply trying to picturise life.”