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Looking for books, or names of books to hunt for in libraries or eLibris.com etc, published in the silent era about how to act in pictures or film acting techniques etc. Thanks! -- Ben

Here's one full text in Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=VRwPAA ... q=&f=false

Motion Picture Acting by Frances Agnew, 1913

Thanks for listing this! Any books published in the 1920s to recommend...?

Have just searched for a bit in Google books and have found quite a few on production that have passages about picture acting. A great resource. Thanks again.

Screen Acting, Its Requirements and Rewards
by Inez and Helen Klumph
Falk Publishing Co, New York, 1922
(with a preface by Lillian Gish)

Film Acting as a Career
by Lilian Bamburg
Foulsham & Co, London, 1927?

Jim Gettys

Then there's Colleen Moore's ELLA CINDERS, where she gets a book about acting in the films, complete with a strange set of eye exercises...

You've probably seen these at archive.org or elsewhere, but just in case--

http://www.archive.org/details/screenacting00marsgoog

http://www.archive.org/details/howtobecomefilma00dang

The Klumph book is also available at archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/screenac ... 00klumiala

Jim Gettys

Pudovkin's Film Acting didn't appear until 1933, but his 1929 book Film Technique looks at acting from the point of view of a director ("The Director and the Actor," "The Actor in the Frame," "Types Instead of Actors").

Mae Marsh's autobiography, Screen Acting, has a great deal of insight into the matter of silent movie acting. Published New York : F. A. Stokes Co., c1921. The book is available in a variety of sources today, including Googlebooks.