Word: photoplay
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...whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger...
...muttered something about " sour Bennies," and proceeded with his work. He followed the intention of the author with explicit accuracy. He left out very little; he interpolated nothing. He went to England for his exteriors. He chose his cast wisely. The sum of his efforts is a curiously fascinating photoplay. Its fascination lies chiefly in its departure from celluloid tradition. It is leisurely; its subtitles almost for the first time in history are tasteful (most of them Hutchinson's own); incident is steadily subordinated to character...
Svend Gade, Dane, who invented all the funny engines which made the recent multi-scened play, Johannes Kreisler, so remarkable, will be art director for Mary Pickford's next photoplay, probably to be called Rosita. Holbrook Blinn and Claire Eames will...
...Equity's plan is to cover in the succeeding years nearly all of Shakespeare's works; the best of musical comedies, such as Gilbert & Sullivan's satirical pieces; the most artistic performances of the dancing and pantomimic art; and the finest examples of the photoplay. In short, the Equity proposes to have every brand of dramatic art represented at its highest development...
...story deals mainly with the fortunes of an amateur movie company which is trying to make the United States a Utopia through the filming of a soul-stirring, star-spangled-bannered photoplay called "The Birth of America". It is fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity...