Post by ellynmacg on Nov 17, 2019 3:58:20 GMT
You are so right. Part of the reason for their brisk pacing may have been that older movies, on the average, tended to be shorter. Oh, sure, you had the occasional epic, e.g., Gone With the Wind--but for the most part, they not only zipped along, they finished up faster. And (as my husband just pointed out to me), starting in 1934, the Code was being enforced, which meant they had to get on with plot and character development, since they weren't allowed to spend time on gratuitous sex or gore, or pad the dialogue with endless profanity.