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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XVII
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Often some other sort might establish the cause more deeply.

But most of the propaganda films are of the action variety, because of the dynamic character of the people who produce them.

Fired by fanatic zeal, the auto speeds faster, the rescuing hero runs harder, the stern policeman and sheriff become more jumpy, all that the audience may be converted.

Here if anywhere meditation on the actual resources of charm and force in the art is a fitting thing.

The crusader should realize that it is not a good Action Play nor even a good argument unless it is indeed the Winged Victory sort.


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