"The nearest approach to compromise between fairyland and reality is when actual actors and actresses have been employed and the magic suggested by trick camera work. This was the method in making the very successful "Wizard of Oz" and it is the method employed by Mr. Korda in making "The Thief of Bagdad." One bears in mind the earlier version of this theme produced by Douglas Fairbanks, sur, in the, silent days and the ingenuity he displayed in the magic element.
The present coloured and sound version may be accounted the most successful of all the attempts to show humans in fairyland. The story goes that Mr. Korda was suddenly caught by the idea of thoking the tale round the füdian boy, Sabi, ind Sabu has certainly justified his choice. Another highly successful appeerdnce—in Bastériy fantasy is that of Rex Ín-gram who was "de Lawd" in "Green Pastures" and is now the djin of the Bottle.
There are not a few discriminating critics of the pictures who believe that the expression of fantasy is the essential work of the screen and that it will develop ftirther and further in that direction.
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