Introduction: All the screen's a stage; the critical-theoretical background -- "Inexplicable dumb-shows" stage drama and adaptation in the silent movie era -- Staging cinema: from "cinefied" theatre to "theatred" film -- "A monster of the multitude": simulcast and 'captured live' versions of stage dramas -- Filmed theatre: "cinema can be theatrical" -- Complementary forms: the play-within-the-film -- "The truth of cinematography" -- Conclusion.
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