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Bakshy, Alexander | October 15, 1930 issue

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The article throws light on the screen thrillers. "The White Hell of Pitz Palu," here nature itself is alive with drama as it bares its gaping abysses, rises in towering walls of ice, or breaks into the fury of blizzards and avalanches. There is one feature of this American version of the film that deserves special consideration. The film is accompanied here and there by spoken narrative. The idea of a spoken narrative running parallel with the picture is not only legitimate in itself, but is also extremely promising as a novel cinematic form. It must be applied Intelligently however and this implies a relationship between words and images that makes them inseparable from one another.

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THRILLERS (Motion pictures, television, etc.); AUTOBIOGRAPHY; NARRATION (Rhetoric); MOTION picture acting; PERFORMING arts -- Production & direction; DRAMA
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