The prospects for British producers are brighter, and if they can exhibit at the various “Trade Shows” films worth seeing—from the standpoint of acting, scenario and production—then they need not fear a “block” in the bookings for English films.
The British public is patriotic, and it only remains for the British producers to bring out something really good for foreign competition to fall behind. Our keenest competitors are America, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Cinema Eccentricities: Blunders and Inaccuracies.
Some remarkable blunders are perpetrated in the production of some modern films, either due to an oversight on the part of the producer who endeavours to make it too realistic, or inattention to details. These incidents have a tendency to do more harm to the cinema than good, for these little slips which have been allowed to creep in and appear on the screen are apt to make the picture patrons become impatient. Some people find amusement in the noting of all these blunders. Let me enumerate a few to show what I mean, for they are too apparent to escape notice. For instance—
A monk in a picture of the twelfth century is seen to switch off the electric light!
Louis the XIVth is supposed to remark to a lady-in-waiting, that she wants “taking down a peg,” an expression not quite in keeping with the period portrayed!
Again, it is just as ridiculous for vaccination marks to be shown on the left arm of a harem-queen of the East—period, a thousand years ago!
One sees such items as, a view of Curzon Street, showing huge pillared porticoes and palms.
A duke who wears appalling American “reach-me-downs.”
A duchess who is Irish, and therefore must say “Be jabers” and “Begorra.”