[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XX 13/20
If it is the conviction of serious minds that the mass of men shall never again see pictures out of Heaven except through such mediums as the kinetoscope lens, let all the higher forces of our land courageously lay hold upon this thing that saves us from perpetual spiritual blindness. When the thought of primitive man, embodied in misty forms on the landscape, reached epic proportions in the Greek, he saw the Olympians more plainly than he beheld the Acropolis.
Myron, Polykleitos, Phidias, Scopas, Lysippus, Praxiteles, discerned the gods and demigods so clearly they afterward cut them from the hard marble without wavering.
Our guardian angels of to-day must be as clearly seen and nobly hewn. A double mental vision is as fundamental in human nature as the double necessity for air and light.
It is as obvious as that a thing can be both written and spoken.
We have maintained that the kinetoscope in the hands of artists is a higher form of picture writing.
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