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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIII
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Yet fixed facial hieroglyphics have many legitimate uses.

For instance in The Avenging Conscience, as the play works toward the climax and the guilty man is breaking down, the eye of the detective is thrown on the screen with all else hid in shadow, a watching, relentless eye.

And this suggests a special talisman of the old Egyptians, a sign called the Eyes of Horus, meaning the all-beholding sun.
Here is the picture of an inundated garden: [Illustration] Latin equivalent, the letter S.In our photoplays the garden is an ever-present resource, and at an instant's necessity suggests the glory of nature, or sweet privacy, and kindred things.

The Egyptian lotus garden had to be inundated to be a success.

Ours needs but the hired man with the hose, who sometimes supplies broad comedy.


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