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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER X
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There he sees them.
They are the nearest to the sinister Poe quality of any illustrations I recall that attempt it.

"They are neither man nor woman, they are neither brute nor human; they are ghouls." The scenes are designed with the architectural dignity that the first part of this chapter has insisted wizard trappings should take on.

Now it is that the boy confesses and the Poe story ends.
Then comes what the photoplay people call the punch.

It is discussed at the end of chapter nine.

It is a kind of solar plexus blow to the sensibilities, certainly by this time an unnecessary part of the film.
Usually every soul movement carefully built up to where the punch begins is forgotten in the material smash or rescue.


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