PROVIDING ENTERTAINMENT
ESSENTIAL QUALITIES Entertainment is the purpose of ] every motion picture. regardless of ! type. Mystery melodramas, musical j love tales and adventure romances arc j sisters under the skin as motion pictures, and each must possess the same essential qualities to become entertaining. according to Frank Tuttle. the director of “Men Are Like That. Hal Skelly’s latest all-talking picture for Paramount. “To be entertaining.” -ays Tuttle, “they must have plenty of action and logical situations which irouse ar I hold audience interest and build up ; to suspense which culminates in ? | dramatic climax. There must b* sufficient comedy relief o add n--1 tensity to the dramatic situations. Tin* | story must unfold in logical sequence j and the whole so moulded together 1 that interest is held throughout.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 15
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127PROVIDING ENTERTAINMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 15
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