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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER VIII
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We will suppose a moving picture humorist who is in the same mood as the carver.

He chooses a story of quaint old ladies, street gamins, and fat aldermen.

Imagine the figures with the same massing and interplay suddenly invested with life, yet giving to the eye a pleasure kindred to that which is found in carved wood, and bringing to the fancy a similar humor.
Or there is a type of Action Story where the mood of the figures is that of bronze, with the aesthetic resources of that metal: its elasticity; its emphasis on the tendon, ligament, and bone, rather than on the muscle; and an attribute that we will call the panther-like quality.

Hermon A.
MacNeil has a memorable piece of work in the yard of the architect Shaw, at Lake Forest, Illinois.

It is called "The Sun Vow." A little Indian is shooting toward the sun, while the old warrior, crouching immediately behind him, follows with his eye the direction of the arrow.


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