[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XVII 17/27
There is enough talent in any place to make an artistic revolution, if once that region is aflame with a common vision.
The spirit that made the Irish Players, all so racy of the soil, can also move the company of local photoplayers in Topeka, or Indianapolis, or Denver.
Then let them speak for their town, not only in great occasional enterprises, but steadily, in little fancies, genre pictures, developing a technique that will finally make magnificence possible. There was given not long ago, at the Illinois Country Club here, a performance of The Yellow Jacket by the Coburn Players.
It at once seemed an integral part of this chapter. The two flags used for a chariot, the bamboo poles for oars, the red sack for a decapitated head, etc., were all convincing, through a direct resemblance as well as the passionate acting.
They suggest a possible type of hieroglyphics to be developed by the leader of the local group. Let the enthusiast study this westernized Chinese play for primitive representative methods.
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