[The Photoplay by Hugo Muensterberg]@TWC D-Link bookThe Photoplay CHAPTER X 14/33
They are obliged to yield to the scheme simply because the scenario writers are still untrained and clumsy in using the technique of the new art. Some religious painters of medieval times put in the picture itself phrases which the persons were supposed to speak, as if the words were leaving their mouths.
But we could not imagine Raphael and Michelangelo making use of a method of communication which is so entirely foreign to the real spirit of painting.
Every art grows slowly to the point where the artist relies on its characteristic and genuine forms of expression. Elements which do not belong to it are at first mingled in it and must be slowly eliminated.
The photoplay of the day after tomorrow will surely be freed from all elements which are not really pictures.
The beginning of the photoplay as a mere imitation of the theater is nowhere so evident as in this inorganic combination with bits of dialogue or explanatory phrases.
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