[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture BOOK I--THE GENERAL PHOTOPLAY SITUATION IN AMERICA, JANUARY 1, 1922 17/41
Fairy-tales are inherent in the genius of the motion picture and are a thousand times hinted at in the commercial films, though the commercial films are not willing to stop to tell them.
Lillian Gish could be given wings and a wand if she only had directors and scenario writers who believed in fairies.
And the same can most heartily be said of Mae Marsh. Chapter XI--Architecture-in-Motion, being a continuation of the argument about the Splendor Pictures, in chapters five, six, and seven.
This is an element constantly re-illustrated in a magnificent but fragmentary way by the News Films.
Any picture of a seagull flying so close to the camera that it becomes as large as a flying machine, or any flying machine made by man and photographed in epic flight captures the eye because it is architecture and in motion, motion which is the mysterious fourth dimension of its grace and glory.
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