silent era books on "how to act in pictures"

BenModel · Post by **BenModel** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:47 pm

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

greta de groat · Post by **greta de groat** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:41 am

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

BenModel · Post by **BenModel** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:25 pm

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

BenModel · Post by **BenModel** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:43 pm

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.

Jim Gettys · Post by **Jim Gettys** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:34 am

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

Rodney · Post by **Rodney** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:46 am

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...

Ian Elliot · Post by **Ian Elliot** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:05 pm

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

Jim Gettys · Post by **Jim Gettys** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:02 pm

The Klumph book is also available at archive.org:

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

Jim Gettys

Mark Pruett · Post by **Mark Pruett** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:39 am

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").

David Menefee · Post by **David Menefee** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:11 pm

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.