[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XIII 5/27
When you see one flashed on the screen, you know instantly you are dealing with royalty or its implications.
The last one I saw that made any particular impression was when Mary Pickford acted in Such a Little Queen.
I only wished then that she had a more convincing throne. Let us cut one out of black cardboard.
Turning the cardboard over to write on it the spirit-meaning, we inscribe some such phrase as The Throne of Wisdom or The Throne of Liberty. Here is the hieroglyphic of a hand: [Illustration] Roman equivalent, the letter D.The human hand, magnified till it is as big as the whole screen, is as useful in the moving picture alphabet as the letter D in the printed alphabet.
This hand may open a lock.
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