A MASTER OF CAMERA TECHNIQUE
LENI’S LATEST FILM 44 The Chinese Parrot," which made its New York premiere recently received the following comment in the New York Times: — 44 In his second American film, 4 The Chinese Parrot,’ Paul Leni has produced a worthy successor to ‘The Cat and the Canary,’ which demonstrated that Mr Leni is a master of camera technique. The production progresses in a straightforward and natural manner. By an ingenious use of shadows, lights "and photographic angles, Mr Leni has created the eerie atmosphere necessary in a house where sudden death and sister happenings occur. Those scenes where the band of thieves carry a body through the hall are particularly effective.
“In the sequences depicting a New Year’s celebration in San Francisco’s Chinatown and in those chapters devoted to the pearl fishers in Honolulu and ethers .vliere a Nautch dancer is murdered for a string of pearls, Mr Leni introduces some exceptionally clever and forceful camera effects."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)
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161A MASTER OF CAMERA TECHNIQUE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)
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