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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER IX
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Ah, you producer who have grown squeaky whipping your people into what you called action, consider the dynamics of these figures that would be almost motionless in real life.

Remember there must be a spirit-action under the other, or all is dead.
Yet that soul may be the muse of Comedy.

If Hawthorne and his kind are not your fashion, turn to models that have their feet on the earth always, yet successfully aspire.

Key some of your intimate humorous scenes to the Dutch Little Masters of Painting, such pictures as Gerard Terburg's Music Lesson in the Chicago Art Institute.

The thing is as well designed as a Dutch house, wind-mill, or clock.


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