@deanduncan63Saw P. Fejos’ #Lonesome. A valuable curio: effervescent, resourceful, fairy tale & urban document all at once. And then those studio imposed …
… dialogue scenes draw everything to a screeching halt, turning fantasy into threadbare, ardour into dumb. Proves Rudolf Arnheim (1932) right …
… both regarding the glories of the high silent cinema, & the disastrous advent of sound.
#Lonesome is a dead ringer for the 1st part of King Vidor’s The Crowd, (1928), though The Crowd is far superior …
… Further it strikingly anticipates the collectively created People On Sunday (1930), though People on Sunday is also far superior.