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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER VIII
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Mr.Curtis' photoplay, The Land of the Head Hunters (World Film Corporation), a romance of the Indians of the North-West, abounds in noble bronzes.
I have gone through my old territories as an art student, in the Chicago Art Institute and the Metropolitan Museum, of late, in special excursions, looking for sculpture, painting, and architecture that might be the basis for the photoplays of the future.
The Bacchante of Frederick MacMonnies is in bronze in the Metropolitan Museum and in bronze replica in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

There is probably no work that more rejoices the hearts of the young art students in either city.

The youthful creature illustrates a most joyous leap into the air.

She is high on one foot with the other knee lifted.

She holds a bunch of grapes full-arm's length.


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