SEEING THEMSELVES ACT.
The moving picture machine as a means of providing an opportunity for actors in a play to become the ordience, and watch themselves act s the idea of an intelligent theatrical manager. He called a rehearsal, arranged for an expert from one of the large film-making concerns to be present with the necessary apparatus and the three acts were played through with as much attention to detail as if there were a large audience. After the film was developed the members of the company were assembled at the theatre to see themselves act, with the request that they should make note of any stage business, facial expressions, etc., which they thought could be improved upon. "As a result," said one of the actors, "we were able to carry out the desire expressed by the poet Robert Burns, 'O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us.' "
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 463, 8 May 1912, Page 7
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155SEEING THEMSELVES ACT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 463, 8 May 1912, Page 7
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