Rouben Mamoulian \u2013 his name cannot be but mentioned in the history of Cinematography. A tireless\u00a0experimenter whose innate taste and intelligence enabled him to succeed where less talented\u00a0directors had failed; Mamoulian directed only 16 movies but left an indelible mark on film history.\u00a0Rouben Mamoulian was born in 1898, Tiflis, Georgia and attended Nersesian School in there.\u00a0Since early childhood he had an eager for the arts and music, as his mother, Vergine Kalantarian,\u00a0who was an Armenian theater actress in Tiflis. His father was a banker and wanted Rouben to\u00a0become either an engineer or a lawyer. So Rouben Mamoulian went to Russia and studied law at the\u00a0University of Moscow within 1915-1917, but indulged his passion for the theater by taking acting\u00a0classes trained under Yevgeny Vakhtangov at night.
\nThe October Revolution made Rouben Mamoulian leave the country and soon be settled in England. Mamoulian became a director and staged well-received productions in London and New York, culminating in his hugely successful 1927 Broadway play Porgy, which featured an all black cast. On the strength of that success, he was signed by Paramount to direct its backstage drama \u201cApplause\u201d (1929). His subsequent films \u201cCity\u00a0Streets\u201d (1931), saw Mamoulian refining his cinematic technique while continuing to experiment
\nwith subjective camera work and the melding of picture and sound. Producers were so terrified that\u00a0the opening sequence to \u201cDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u201d (1931) would turn out badly – Mamoulian shot it all\u00a0from the perspective of the protagonist – the released of the film omitted the first few minutes of\u00a0the film. It wasn’t until the 1970s that this was added on again and Mamoulian’s brilliance\u00a0\u00a0returned to one of his greatest films.
\nMamoulian was called \u201cNapoleon of the Cinema\u201d. His \u201cLove Me Tonight\u201d (1932) is a considerably\u00a0different proposition, and is the film most often cited as evidence of either Mamoulian’s cinematic\u00a0genius or the inflated, superficial qualities of his work. His most famous films include \u201cSong of the\u00a0Songs\u201d and \u201cQueen Christina\u201d (1933), starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
\nIf Hovhannes Adamian was the creator of the colored Television, Rouben Mamoulian was the creator of the colored cinema. \u201cIt is logical to believe that Rouben Mamoulian was among the leaders when Hollywood experienced a fictional reformation\u201d, \u201cNew York Herald Tribune\u201d wrote. His Becky Sharp (1935), the first feature film made with the newly perfected three-strip Technicolor process, utilized its bright hues for dramatic rather than merely pictorial effect.
\nAmong the most successful films was \u201cThe Mark of Zorro\u201d, \u201cBlood and Sand\u201d, \u201cGolden Boy\u201d. At the\u00a0end of the career his poetic visions received little understanding, though he experienced an innovation\u00a0\u2018the method of dancing\u2019 in his last film \u201cSilk Stockings\u201d.\u00a0Though Rouben Mamoulian\u2019s film never contained Armenian motives, he had always been propaganding his homeland and the noble Armenian nation, thanks to whom he had been established as a true artist: “\u2026.
\nI am happy as I feel strongly that I\u2019m an artist and have the dignity of an artist thanks to my parents\u00a0and my noble nation, from whom we all have inherited the rich spiritual merits of the art as the\u00a0arts are the only truly universal medium\u201d. Rouben Mamoulian died on the 4th of December in 1987, in Los Angeles, USA.<\/p>\n
\n“\u2026. I am happy as I feel strongly that I\u2019m an artist and have the dignity of an artist thanks to my parents and my noble nation, from whom we all have inherited the rich spiritual merits of the art\u00a0as the arts are the only truly universal medium\u201d.
\nRouben Mamoulian<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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