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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER X
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The scene of the pretty hesitancy on the step, her knocking, and the final impatient tapping with her foot is one of the best illustrations of the intimate mood in photoplay episodes.

On the girl's entrance the uncle overwhelms her and the boy by saying she is pursuing his nephew like a common woman of the town.

The words actually burst through the film, not as a melodramatic, but as an actual insult.

This is a thing almost impossible to do in the photoplay.

This outrage in the midst of an atmosphere of chivalry is one of Griffith's master-moments.


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