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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER VIII
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Few pieces of sculpture come readily to mind that show more happily the qualities of bronze as distinguished from other materials.

To imagine such a group done in marble, carved wood, or Della Robbia ware is to destroy the very image in the fancy.
The photoplay of the American Indian should in most instances be planned as bronze in action.

The tribes should not move so rapidly that the panther-like elasticity is lost in the riding, running, and scalping.

On the other hand, the aborigines should be far from the temperateness of marble.
Mr.Edward S.Curtis, the super-photographer, has made an Ethnological collection of photographs of our American Indians.

This work of a life-time, a supreme art achievement, shows the native as a figure in bronze.


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