[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XX 10/20
To us it must be a fire upon the altar. Transubstantiation must begin.
Our young magicians must derive strange new pulse-beats from the veins of the earth, from the sap of the trees, from the lightning of the sky, as well as the alchemical acids, metals, and flames.
Then they will kindle the beginning mysteries for our cause. They will build up a priesthood that is free, yet authorized to freedom. It will be established and disestablished according to the intrinsic authority of the light revealed. Now for a closer view of this vocation. The picture of Religious Splendor has its obvious form in the delineation of Biblical scenes, which, in the hands of the best commercial producers, can be made as worth while as the work of men like Tissot.
Such films are by no means to be thought of lightly.
This sort of work will remain in the minds of many of the severely orthodox as the only kind of a religious picture worthy of classification.
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