'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/26/2014 11:49 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > silent movie directors
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>Why specifically *silent* movie? The director's megaphone, the director's
>chair, and the director's command of "Cut!" didn't cease to exist as
>standard cinematic cliches with the advent of talkies.

But what I had forgotten was scenes showing silent movie
directors.  And for a sound movie, the director can't use the
megaphone during the scene.  (Unless the sound is dubbed in
later.)  Being able to say just "Cut!" isn't doing much directing
through a megaphone.

Joel



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