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Show The "Movie Star" Business Has Been. Overdone; Its Day Has Passed. By J. STUART BLA.CKTON, Pioneer Producer. ' While the services of famous actors and actresses, of both the v called legitimate stage and the silent drama, will always be in demand, the time has passed when photoplays will be generally written, prodiced and directed simply to exploit the special charms and accomplishments of some particular person. That sort of thing has been much overdone by producers in the past, and as a consequence the productions have suffered. suf-fered. The great motion picture-going public has come to resent HTat policy on the part of the producers, and it is the taste of this public that producers must please. r The films of the future will be made from scenarios, either specially written for the pictures or adapted from stories and n6vels of the world's greatest writers. The productions will not necessarily be extravagant, but must be faithful to real life, and the direction of the pictures will not per mit the star to carry off all the honors. ' ; I do not feel that it is yet time to write, or even begin to write, any thing like a history of the motion picture business. I believe that the photodrama of the present and of the future will play an all-important part in shaping the destinies of ths world. |