A Nocturne (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A NocturneSeveral years ago it occurred to me that the lifeless artificial scenery used in theatres could be most effectually replaced by cinema-views of people and objects, cast from behind the screen, and made to harmonise with the acting on the stage. I expected then that so simple an idea would not long remain unexploited, and so did not trouble to make use of it. But re¿ection proves that the simplest theories are those which generally escape notice, and that many people refrain from putting their theories into practice, because they infer their fallibility, since such theories have not already been employed.In brief, this new method combines the features of both stage and cinema which are merged in each other as in a cyclorama, and between which there is so much interaction as to unify stage and screen into a fresh vehicle possessing the limitations of neither - having neither the inarticulateness of the biograph screen, nor the crude unreality of the stage in all outdoor scenes where the presentation of people in the distance and of traffic is, in fact, quite impossible, for which reason all stage-craft is circumscribed and in practice confined almost altogether to the representation of interiors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.