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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER X
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Even a chair can reach this estate.

For instance, let it be the throne of Wodin, illustrating some passage in Norse mythology.

If this throne has a language, it speaks with the lightning; if it shakes with its threat, it moves the entire mountain range beneath it.

Let the wizard-author-producer climb up from the tricks of Moving Day to the foot-hills where he can see this throne against the sky, as a superarchitect would draw it.

But even if he can give this vision in the films, his task will not be worth while if he is simply a teller of old stories.


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