Motion Picture Acting ~ Paperback ~ Frances Agnew

Excerpt from Motion Picture Acting: How to Prepare for Photoplaying, What Qualifications Are Necessary, How to Secure an Engagement, Salaries Paid to Photoplayers This timely book is tendered to those interested in the profession of photoplaying, not only as a textbook of personal instruction, but also in the nature of a book of facts regarding the opportunities of this work, the qualifications, essential talents and methods of procedure for success as a photo player. The information herein has been gleaned from the writer's personal experience with various film companies and on the dramatic stage - the different engagements affording her an opportunity to draw comparisons - and a careful study and investigation of the subject of motion pictures as an industry, a present and future profession, and a source of amusement and instruction to the whole world. The writer is humbly grateful for the data given by many of the most famous photoplayers whose experience and stellar positions have given them an insight into every phase of this vast industry, and especially for the patient encouragement and kind assistance of the publishers, who alone made this little book a possibility and a reality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.