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From Making the Movies
Making the Movies by Ernest A. Dench
New York, The Macmillan company, published 1915 (now in the Public Domain)
This material followed the final chapter of Making the Movies. As an ephemera buff, I thought I'd include it
for thoroughness' sake.
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THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE
By VACHEL LINDSAY
Author of "The Congo and Other Poems," etc.
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Mr. Lindsay's book is one of the first to be written in appreciation of the moving picture. His purpose is to show how to classify and judge the better films.
The main thesis of the book is that the moving picture is essentially graphic rather than dramatic; the tendency of the art of the moving picture is away from its ostensible dramatic interest, towards the mood of the art exhibition. Moving pictures are pictorial; painting, sculpture and architecture shown in motion. He describes the types of photo plays, discusses the likeness of the motion picture to the old Egyptian picture writing, summarizes the one hundred main points of difference between the legitimate drama and the film drama, indicates that the best censorship is a public sense of beauty and takes up the value of scientific films, news films, educational and political films. The volume closes with some sociological observations on the conquest of the motion picture, which he regards as a force as revolutionary as was the invention of printing.
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