The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Art Of The Moving Picture, by Vachel
Lindsay

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Art Of The Moving Picture

Author: Vachel Lindsay

Release Date: July 26, 2004 [eBook #13029]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE***

E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram and the Project Gutenberg Online
Distributed Proofreading Team

THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE

By

VACHEL LINDSAY

Intended, First of All, for the New Art Museums Springing Up All over the
Country. But the Book Is for Our Universities and Institutions of
Learning. It Contains an Appeal to Our Whole Critical and Literary World,
and to Our Creators of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, and the
American Cities They Are Building. Being the 1922 Revision of the Book
First Issued in 1915, and Beginning With an Ample Discourse on the Great
New Prospects of 1922

"Hail, all ye gods in the house of the soul, who weigh Heaven and
Earth in a balance, and who give celestial food."

From the book of the scribe Ani, translated from the
original Egyptian hieroglyphics by Professor E.A.
Wallis Budge

Dedicated

TO GEORGE MATHER RICHARDS
IN MEMORY OF THE ART STUDENT DAYS WE SPENT TOGETHER
WHEN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM WAS OUR PICTURE-DRAMA

CONTENTS

A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DENVER ART ASSOCIATION

BOOK I

THE GENERAL PHOTOPLAY SITUATION IN
AMERICA, JANUARY 1, 1922, ESPECIALLY AS
VIEWED FROM THE HEIGHTS OF THE CIVIC
CENTRE AT DENVER, COLORADO, AND THE
DENVER ART MUSEUM, WHICH IS TO BE A
LEADING FEATURE OF THIS CIVIC CENTRE

BOOK II

THE OUTLINE WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AS
THE BASIS OF PHOTOPLAY CRITICISM IN
AMERICA, BOTH IN THE STUDIOS OF THE
LOS ANGELES REGION, AND ALL THE SERIOUS
CRITICISM WHICH HAS APPEARED IN THE
DAILY PRESS AND THE MAGAZINES

CHAPTER

I. THE POINT OF VIEW

II. THE PHOTOPLAY OF ACTION

III. THE INTIMATE PHOTOPLAY

IV. THE MOTION PICTURE OF FAIRY SPLENDOR

V. THE PICTURE OF CROWD SPLENDOR

VI. THE PICTURE OF PATRIOTIC SPLENDOR

VII. TH