The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-24
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tisirg. They even try to steal actors
away, after they have made part Of a
film, knowing that the entire play
would have to be re-staged and re.
enacted by new actors. So one of the
largest films ever made, for which
shall have the rights In America, has
not been even named to the actors in
the company. They are told to do this
and that and have no idea what drama
they are enacting. 1 notice that our ad-
vertisements say something about this
'Quo Vadis' being a spectacle that
cost $l50,000. II may be interesting to
note that considerably more than $780,"
600 was spent on it before we took in
one penny at the box office.
"In some ways 7 think this aim
teaches manufacturers lesson. / be-
lieve it is about as long as a photo
play should be; that is, a film drama
drama, and people become weary after
two and a half hours, no matter how
good the attraction may be. -
"W What do you think Of the colored
pictures?'
Il think that color will come. The
day may be almost here when we will
see pictures in their natural colors; but
tho process is far from being complete
at the present time. But l am safe in
Sdy tuS ludl lulJl OOO luSu GIG dC WOCh
on different processes today and when
500 men work on anything like this they
are pretty certain to achieve results.
7 do not care for the talking pictures,
particularly; that is, ! would prefer
silent pictures until the day arrives
when we may have an exact reproduc-
tion of the human voice-and this is
certain to como. I think voice speak
ing in the QUO vadis' pictures would
L. A1l L.
them BY watching the silent pictures,
particularly those made by foreign
actors, we are learning to understand
pantomime as never before In the his
tory Of the world. That is good thing,
it seems to me, for pantomime is one
of the highest forms of dramatic art
'eIt may be interesting to the casual
theater goer to know that in this pic
ture sixteen pictures per second were
per foot Of tape; thus we have a foot
Of tape per second, which will give
something of an idea Of the amount
Of film used in an exhibition that runs
over two hours. Quo Vadis' took about
year to make. In America I copy
righted 400 scenes in this picture" T"
"Will motion pictures take the place
of tho regular drama'"
tNo, there will always remain the
desire to see actors in life. On the
contrary, I think that films will not
supplant actors, and I think that ac-
tors who become well known to film
patrons gain in popularity as a result.
The other day at the big moving pic.
ture exposition in New York nothing
struck me more forcibly than the popu,
larity of the actors of the different
companies who were recognized by the |
masses of people that surged through |
the exposition, Some of these actors !
were recipients of marks of favor that |
rarely fell to a regular actor Of the |
stage. l believe, for instance, that |
julia Marlowe would become a much |
more popular actress and E. r. Soth
ern a much more popular actor if mo-
tiop pictures Of their performances
were shown among people who are de-
prived from seeing them because via
movie they would be enabled to give
their performances in cities that have
never been and never will he visited
by them, There is constant crv that
motion pictures are hurting the regular
theater. This may be true at the pres,
ent moment, because no doubt we have
taken away many patrons from the
balconies; but tho time will come when
theater managers will recognize the
fact that movies have made theater.
eoers for them, l believe that the
minds of the younger generation are
being prepared for the theater as never
before in thA history of the world. Mo.