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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER IV
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In like manner it can put on the screen great impersonal mobs of men.

It can give us tremendous armies, moving as oceans move.

The pictures of Fairy Splendor, Crowd Splendor, Patriotic Splendor, and Religious Splendor are but the embodiments of these backgrounds.
And a photographic corollary quite useful in these four forms is that the camera has a kind of Hallowe'en witch-power.

This power is the subject of this chapter.
The world-old legends and revelations of men in connection with the lovely out of doors, or lonely shrines, or derived from inspired crusading humanity moving in masses, can now be fitly retold.

Also the fairy wand can do its work, the little dryad can come from the tree.


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