Cinema of the World

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The first film I found as a collector was a Douglas Fairbanks, made for Fine Arts-Triangle, American Aristocracy (1916), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, and the second was Manhattan Madness (1916), directed by Allan Dwan. Even in its abridged form on the home movie gauge of 9,5mm, it had panache and an exhilarating pace. But I never realised how clever it was until I saw the whole film. Its editing style was as innovative as if Dick Lester had worked for Thomas Edison. Not that I am criticising the editing of other early silents—they were invariably well cut. But Manhattan Madness did things that no one else dared do until years later. It is the story of a cattleman (Doug) who arrives in New York and finds the place deadly dull after Nebraska. Dwan cut back and forth between the West and the East, bravura editing of the kind historians think only Griffith capable of. Kevin Brownlow, Allan Dwan, The Name beneath the Title, 2002







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