Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present tenant at the Kenmore, Verdi's "Rigoletto," was filmed entirely on the stage of the Rome Opera House with singers recruited from La Seals. There has been no attempt to make it anything more than a celluloid recording of a performance. No dialogue has been added (and subtitling the arias would be to no one's good). For those patrons unfamiliar with the Victor Hugo story, there is a vastly confusing precis of each act written on the screen before each curtain-rise...
That sounded like a 19th Century ideal, and in a sense it was. To the free & easy followers of Matisse and Picasso, Hopper's realism seemed as harshly confining as a celluloid collar, but it had advantages. His devotion to nature kept him from being sour or repetitious, and his determination for "exact transcription" precluded fashionable slickness...