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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XII
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That is the moving picture kind of cheering.
It was a theatrical sin when the old-fashioned stage actor was rendered unimportant by his scenery.

But the motion picture actor is but the mood of the mob or the landscape or the department store behind him, reduced to a single hieroglyphic.
The stage-interior is large.

The motion-picture interior is small.

The stage out-of-door scene is at best artificial and little and is generally at rest, or its movement is tainted with artificiality.

The waves dash, but not dashingly, the water flows, but not flowingly.


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