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Show SEE "THE EYES OF THE WORLD" AT THE ORPHEUM SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. 'EYES OF TRE WORLD' iSSTRll NOVELTY Chine productions can always be counted upon to Introduce something novel In tho cinema world, and "The Eyes of the World," which will have its first local showing at the Orpheum theatre, is no exception. The new production introduces a really revolutionary' thing In tho motion mo-tion picture field m the subtleties recording re-cording tho words spoken by the char actors during the action of the scene. In studio pai lance these are called "speaking titles " As the character gives utteranco to his part in a dialogue, dia-logue, the words which his lips form suddenly "fade in" to quote another anoth-er phrase of the picture makers and after a proper length of time softly soft-ly fade out of the scene This has never been done before and It goes down to the credit of the Clune company as a positivo innovation. innova-tion. The originator of this improvement improve-ment Is Lloyd Brown, supervisor of productions for Cluno, -who also was responsible for the beautiful titles in "Ramona," with moving backgiounds, and symbolical figures. Motion picture authorities who have seen these latest "fade in" titles in "The Eyes of the World" predict that their use will be universal because be-cause of their obvious superiority to tho old forms. Spoken titles are very necessary to a story In motion pictures, but in their old form, shown alone on the screen, they hae a tendency to break the Interest In-terest of the spectator In the action of the story Few people have appreciated, appreci-ated, perhaps, what an Incongruity tho sub-title is, particularly when it Is necessary to arrest the action of tho play in order to show It. It is as if a company of playeis wero removed from the stage while a few words are spoken by the characters, and tho characters arc then brought back to the stage This disadvantage the motion picture pic-ture has labored under since Its Inception. In-ception. It Is really a greater obstacle obsta-cle to sustained Interest than peoplo have realized, largely because the public has accepted it as an integral part of the picture drama without analysis. In point of fact, it Is an equivalent of lowering the curtain on a scene, and as this occurs in most picture plays repeatedly, the arresting arrest-ing of attention on the action in order or-der to read something is obviously a serious dramatic fault. The title that flashos in and fades out without lemoving the characters from the screen not only obviates this fault, but really adds to tho illusion, becauso the words seem to como out of the mouths of tho characters who steadily remain before the vision The aesthetic value of the Innovation Is not to be Ignored The new form of titles are small and neat, and do not strike the eyo with tho inartistic harshness of the big letters, which also have the stamp of the primer on them and ln-ferentially ln-ferentially designated the picture drama dra-ma as in the primer atago There are those who predict tho advent of the day when sub-titles can be eliminated from motion pictures, but many careful thinkers engaged in the making of photo drama disagree with them. The elimination of words from drama of either form reduces it to more pantomime There can bo no fine shadings of meaning conveyed without words, and as long as they are necessary, which will bo probably forever, an Improvement as in "The Eyes of tho World" is to be hailed as n great step in advance. Advertisement. |
