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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XX
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In the hands of prophet-wizards it will be a higher form of vision-seeing.
I have said that the commercial men are seeing alleged visions.

Take, for instance, the large Italian film that attempts to popularize Dante.
Though it has a scattering of noble passages, and in some brief episodes it is an enhancement of Gustave Dore, taking it as a whole, it is a false thing.

It is full of apparitions worked out with mechanical skill, yet Dante's soul is not back of the fires and swords of light.

It gives to the uninitiated an outline of the stage paraphernalia of the Inferno.

It has an encyclopaedic value.


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