The Public and Sound Pictures

IN NEW LONDON, a few weeks ago, “The Patriot,” one of the finest motion pictures ever made, opened to an audience of barely three hundred people. In a rival theatre, “The Perfect Crime,” a sound picture with little else to recommend it had a packed house and lines before the box-office.

Print ISSN

0096-6460

Published

1928-09

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J13122