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The Art Of The Moving Picture

BOOK I--THE GENERAL PHOTOPLAY SITUATION IN AMERICA, JANUARY 1, 1922
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What influence it will have in that most vital group, time will show.
Meanwhile it is a marvellous illustration of the meaning of this chapter and the chapter on Fairy Splendor, though it is a diabolical not a beneficent vitality that is given to inanimate things.

The furniture, trappings, and inventions are in motion to express the haunted mind, as in Griffith's Avenging Conscience, described pages 121 through 132.

The two should be shown together in the same afternoon, in the Art Museum study rooms.

Caligari is undoubtedly the most important imported film since that work of D'Annunzio, Cabiria, described pages 55 through 57.
But it is the opposite type of film.

Cabiria is all out-doors and splendor on the Mediterranean scale.


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