Indeed, we both are saying too much about a 1956 nothing.
Who are you to gauge the worth of a piece of criticism, when all you can retort is that it is "obnoxious": "obnoxious" is an obnoxious term itself, and if you can not reply with arguments, instead of with adjectives that could be applied to anything, it is not like your opinion of my own opinion is offering much worth.
Please care to show where have I contradicted myself, because if you read my "I do not ask for acting in cinema, which is the art of edited moving images" as referring to acting, and not to cinema, the problem may not be so much my English as your own private understanding of any sort of English.
You and me are posting comments about a clip of a 1956 movie using the exact same part of the 1940 script for this particular scene, and it is by comparing both that I pointed out how drab the 1956 is, in contrast with the older one, and the fact that the latter movie was laced with VistaVision color, as I had already said, or with musical numbers, as you prefer to remark, does not affect the wildly different ways both deliver the exact same part of a script.
I do not disrespect cinema actors nor actors in general, only their work when it is bad, and I respect them even more when they are honest enough to admit it themselves. Actually, when you understand my saying that "in cinema, which is the art of edited moving images, I do not ask for acting", you may have better reasons to feel upset by realizing that I mean that actors are dispensable in cinema. And it is precisely because I respect the acting profession so much, and acknowledge it as an extremely difficult one, that I expect them to do the same and treat their trade as an art, not as a way of gaining a popularity and a money than a Kardashian can gain without pretending to pass for an actress: that is all I know from them, gathered through the obnoxiously dismissive reviews of actors and journalists whose talent I have always described in the terms they have used to "obnoxiously" talk about those girls.
And yes, I insist that cinema is more than just recording a theatrical production, or some novel, with close-ups or varied and natural background scenery.
Indeed, unlike some others, I am as much of an idi0t as I am a whiner.