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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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HOUSE FOR MRS. J. INGERSOLL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNLVHugh C. White, Architect 66 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Architecture and the Motion Picture By WILLIAM I. GARREN, Architect WHEN does the production of the motion picture become an art and whatdoes the pubHc want. .To the public who enjoy good art, music ordrqma the average motion picture is a sad disappointment; until a pro-ducer or producers shall be known by the class of article they present for show,there is no alternative for the public except to go to a theatre in spite of whatmay have previously been shown and take a chance. There are producers whostrive to do the best that talent or money will allow, and recent years have seenthe industry working for the development of motion pictures as an art. What makes the picture good? This is not an old question nor one to beanswered without reservations. To the average producer the good picture is
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■-K IX A SCfjTril \ ILLAGE. .SET i;V i.uLliW VIHjI>IXIXLj LijRiUkAl ioN one that sells or, is what the public wants; how often promoters, producers orfinanciers mistake what the public tolerates or accepts, through indifference orinability to dictate, for what it might better enjoy or benefit by. Of the spokendrama it has oft been quoted, the plays the thing ; if such is the case, in themedium of photography it must equally be true, in a general way, the picturesthe thing. In the instance of the motion picture we mean the art of photographiccomposition in action or movement. There must first of all be a scenario orstory such as will permit of a highly artistic composition and will leave to theartistic director a free hand to compose his film. Moving masses properlyarranged in pictorial composition, pleasing to the eye and successively relatedby story, will create in the production of the film a picture worthy of its possi-bilities and properly deserving to be called an art. Let u

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