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New Dimensions in the Talkies
Bakshy, Alexander | December 24, 1930 issue

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The article throws light on the illusionist talkie and its effect on the audience. The history of the theater teaches that there can be the spectacle of the illusionist kind, which is based entirely on the effect of illusion produced by the appropriate acting and setting. Then, there can also be the spectacle of the frankly artificial and conventional kind, where the nature of the theatrical presentation as such is the basis of the dramatic form. The illusionist stage strives to make the audience feel as if by some miracle it were watching, not a theatrical performance, but the actual life of a group of people in their natural surroundings.

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SOUND motion pictures; PERFORMING arts; THEATER; ACTING; PERFORMANCE; DRAMA
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