Identifier: cinenewgaz01cine (find matches)
Title: Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Cinema News
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine nyarc-museumofmodernart
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
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ssesses twocharms. The first lies in the personality of the players ;we all know, and indeed have learned to revere, theVitagraph actresses and actors. Who is there amongstus who does not feel a thrill of delight when he readsupon the magic screen the announcement A VitagraphLife Portrayal Next ? The second charm is to befound in the fact that, however good the picture may be latest triumph of the moving picture art were it not thatto do so would be idle. It is a Vitagraph picture, andthat in itself must recommend it to all keen exhibitors.Suffice it, therefore, for us to say that in staging andcostuming it is accurate in every detail, and even SirWalter Scott himself would have failed to find thepicture anything but a faithful representation of thatwhich he intended the poem to convey. The story, astold by the film, runs thus :— Douglas, Earl of Angus, with his daughter Ellen, isbanished by the King. Malcolm Graeme, who is in lovewith Ellen, insists on accompanying them and sharing
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—and we have never seen a bad Vitagraph film—it doesnot spell finality. Such a word is unknown with regardto this companys productions, for they pass on fromtriumph to triumph, as surely as summer follows springor autumn precedes winter. (;: But we digress. Our main purpose, when we com-menced to pen these lines, was not to dilate upon themerits of a Vitagraph film ; they are so apparent to allthat to do so is but to gild refined gold or to paint thelily. Our purpose was to draw the attention of exhibi-tors to the fact that on September 12 this companywill release another 3-reel subject in the shape of adramatised version of Sir Walter Scotts well-knownpoem The Lady of the Lake, which, in our opinion, isone of the finest things ever seen upon the screen. Wecould fill pages of our paper with the praises of this their misfortunes. Instead of going into exile they takerefuge with the Kings enemy, Roderick Dhu, thechieftain of the outlawed Clan Alpine. Accompaniedby the minstrel Allan

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