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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER X
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There are other possible tales on such terms, never yet imagined, to be born to-morrow.

Great structures may become in sort villains, as in the old Bible narrative of the origin of the various languages.

The producer can show the impious Babel Tower, going higher and higher into the sky, fascinating and tempting the architects till a confusion of tongues turns those masons into quarrelling mobs that become departing caravans, leaving her blasted and forsaken, a symbol of every Babylon that rose after her.
There are fables where the rocks and the mountains speak.

Emerson has given us one where the Mountain and the Squirrel had a quarrel.

The Mountain called the Squirrel "Little Prig." And then continues a clash of personalities more possible to illustrate than at first appears.


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