[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XVII 22/27
This chapter does not urge that it be readapted for a photoplay in San Francisco or anywhere else.
But a kindred painting-in-motion, something as beautiful and worthy and intimate, in strictly photoplay terms, might well be the flower of the work of the local groups of film actors. Harriet Monroe's magazine, "Poetry" (Chicago), has given us a new sect, the Imagists:--Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, F.S.Flint, D.H.Lawrence, and others.
They are gathering followers and imitators.
To these followers I would say: the Imagist impulse need not be confined to verse.
Why would you be imitators of these leaders when you might be creators in a new medium? There is a clear parallelism between their point of view in verse and the Intimate-and-friendly Photoplay, especially when it is developed from the standpoint of the last part of chapter nine, _space measured without sound plus time measured without sound_. There is no clan to-day more purely devoted to art for art's sake than the Imagist clan.
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