ABSTRACT
Theatrical culture, which is richer and which enjoys the experience of centuries, cannot fail to exert an influence on the infant acted cinema. Many directorial disciplines which have been mastered in theatre must be employed in the acted film and a rejection or ignorance of them will throw the film director back to the 'prehistoric era'. Sometimes a film director will sweat over the invention of a powder when theatre is already familiar with dynamite. But it is in the sphere of a director working with an actor that theatre has enormous experience and a wealth of methodology. The film director can make use of all this while, of course, taking account of the specific requirements of film montage and the film camera.
