Director Predicts Greater Dramatic Element in Films
That the general use of colour photography on the screen will thin the ranks of present-day director* is the statement of Henry Koster. Koster, who has directed Deanna Durbin in four of her seven Universal pictures, and directed Danielle Darrieux in her only American production, studied painting in Berlin’s Academy of Arts before becoming a screen writer and director in France, Austria and Hjungary. He is anxious to apply the colour technique of the painter to the screen. In the place of directors forced from the studios by the coming of colour will be men with at least a rudimentary training in the use of brush and pallette, he predicts. “Colour injects an added dramatic element in the picture,” Koster states. “It must be handled intelligently in order that it will not detract from the dramatic unfolding of the screen story.” Colour will be dramatic element itself, Koster adds.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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156Director Predicts Greater Dramatic Element in Films Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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