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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XVII
19/27

The dressed-up block of wood used for a child is the length of an infant of the age described and wears the general costume thereof.

The farmer's hoe, though exaggerated, is still an agricultural implement.
The evening's list of properties is economical, filling one wagon, rather than three.

Photographic realism is splendidly put to rout by powerful representation.

When the villager desires to embody some episode that if realistically given would require a setting beyond the means of the available endowment, and does not like the near-Egyptian method, let him evolve his near-Chinese set of symbols.
The Yellow Jacket was written after long familiarity with the Chinese Theatre in San Francisco.

The play is a glory to that city as well as to Hazelton and Benrimo.


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