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Films
Troy, William | June 6, 1934 issue

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What is perhaps most discouraging about the film industry-or the art of the cinema, if you like in America at present is the persistence of the lag between its technical and what one might call its artistic evolution. Technically the screen has arrived at a smoothness of surface and articulation, an ingenuity in the exploitation of its resources, a sureness and elasticity of method, which might all be grouped together under the term sophistication. A simpler way of putting it perhaps would be to say that in the Hollywood film, even of the ranker variety, the bones no longer stick out through the soft and attenuated substance.

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MOTION pictures; MASS media; PERFORMING arts; MOTION picture industry; COMMERCIAL art; MOTION picture plays
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