In The Artist there is a scene where George Valentin passes Peppy Miller on a staircase, an allusion to her rise to fame and his downfall. However I was drawn to the background detail; the representation of the ‘then’ contemporary Fordist production, achieved through the mechanical-like movement of extras. I’ll write about this in greater detail asap.

In The Artist there is a scene where George Valentin passes Peppy Miller on a staircase, an allusion to her rise to fame and his downfall. However I was drawn to the background detail; the representation of the ‘then’ contemporary Fordist production, achieved through the mechanical-like movement of extras. I’ll write about this in greater detail asap.