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Author: Iris Barry
Publisher: New York, Arno Press, 1972.
Series: Arno Press cinema program.; Literature of cinema.
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Genre/Form: Motion pictures
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Barry, Iris, 1895-1969.
Let's go to the movies.
New York, Arno Press, 1972
(OCoLC)593131614
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Iris Barry
ISBN: 0405039115 9780405039119
OCLC Number: 720287
Notes: Reprint of the 1926 ed. published by Chatto & Windus, London under title: Let's go to the pictures.
Description: xv, 278 pages illustrations 23 cm.
Contents: Let's go to the pictures --
Dolls and dreams. Not "the silent drama" ; Stage and screen compared ; Stage claims three points ; Literary beauty no rival to visual beauty ; Visual beauty of films ; Some counter adventages of the films ; Another contrast : hearing people talk v. seeing people doing ; The combat abandoned : Tchekov and Van Gogh ; The cinema and its audience ; Dreams --
Art? Not only a story teller ; The problem of movement in drawing ; How the cinema begins where the artist leaves off ; The beauty of related time and space rhythms ; Three dimensions on the film ; Wherein lies the beauty of cinematography ; Colour and tone ; The question of coloured films ; The films and the Unitites --
The public's pleasure. Films cannot be stricly classified ; The faithful three million ; Some popular films --
what they are and why they are popular ; Why we love Mary Pickford ; The cinema exists to please women ; The question of wedding bells ; Some films which ignored them ; A fierce digression on "this getting married business" ; Do we really want so much love stuff? ; How to get rid of it ; Discussion of popular films continued ; The public is not fickle --
The sub-title. The necessity for the sub-title ; Its true function; "His hat and stick!" ; Good and shocking sub-titles ; How to make them --
Acting. Some questions on acting ; The development of stage acting; The birth of cinema acting and its childhood ; Chaplin makes it grow up ; Some horrors of acting for the films ; What film acting should do ; What not ; Reasonable help for the film actor --
Stars. The rise of Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin ; They create the star system ; How this has benefited the cinema ; How handicapped it ; Stars must never change their courses ; Which stars to watch and why ; How the system spoils the actor ; Warning words to young stars ; Personality alone does not make the actor --
Comedians. Where the comedian scores ; "Bless braces, damn relaxes" ; Charles Chaplin ; The others --
Conventions and morals. The peculiar behaviour of film folk ; Their activity and restlessness ; The curious effects of alcohol and other strange phenomena of screen life ; The innocent heroine and the wicked vamp ; The cinema and public morals ; Children and the films ; Which are the immoral films ; Uplift and lubricity --
Difficulties. The cinema's lack of prestige ; Its mutability ; Films that cannot be found again ; Does the audience care? ; Another disadvantage : production by corporations ; Making a film : the director's impossible task ; How Chaplin does it ; A last difficulty : the stories ; A suggested solution --
A vicious triangle. Producers who are only reproducers ; The example of Messrs. Heal ; Exhibitors ; The inarticulate public ; Some things it wants and where it has found them ; The public's influence ; The unhelpful critic ; The editorial attitude ; A matter of prestige again ; Critics! criticize --
Producers, directors, and others. By their trade ye shall know them ; Some advice on producing companies ; In America; In Germany ; In England ; A selection of directors ; What we get from each ; American ; German ; British --
Speaking of international. The national character of films ; The finger print of England ; Of France : with a note on some clever young men ; What Germany contributes --
A dialogue of two sober men as though Plato and Aristotle.
Series Title: Arno Press cinema program.; Literature of cinema.
Other Titles: Let's go to the pictures

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