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Silent Movie History

FILM WILL
NEVER BE ART

• The Dial Magazine, 1927 •


A 1920s critic rips into the primitive state of movie cameras and declares that they are unfit as tools with which art can be created. He expands on his broadside by pointing out that 1920s film technology will never be able to render thought provoking plots or articulate narratives until some vital advancements are made.


-an additional article from the 1920s defaming silent film can be read here…


Another anti-silent film article can be read here…

Read ‘Film Cannot Be Art”<br>(The Dial Magazine, 1927) for Free
silent movies can never be artralph babcock silent film articlesilent film criticismFILM IS NOT ARTmovies can never be artsilent film movies are NOT ARTnot artwe make money not art1920s movies is not artfilmakers cannot make artfim directors cannot make art

FILM WILL NEVER BE ART

FILM WILL NEVER BE ART

FILM WILL NEVER BE ART

FILM WILL NEVER BE ART

FILM WILL NEVER BE ART

silent movies can never be artralph babcock silent film articlesilent film criticismFILM IS NOT ARTmovies can never be artsilent film movies are NOT ARTnot artwe make money not art1920s movies is not artfilmakers cannot make artfim directors cannot make art
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