The blue book of the screen (1923)

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SCREEN RENAISSANCE THROUGH MOTION PAINTING / In Ji x 5 canvas becomes a set i>f grandeur. interpretation and execution. Formerly a company working in flat country had to travel sometimes hundreds of miles to obtain mountainous country and to make the best of whatsoever character of hills they happened to find nearby. The high cost of production compelled a director to "shoot," whether the air was misty or clear and to "shoot" when the sun was high in the heavens and the landscape flat and glaring and without shadows of evening that clothe the world in poetry and beauty. I do not wish to convey the idea that the screen of the future shall not continue to be vulgarized by certain producers. We shall always have photodramas that are yellow. But, just as the ancient Greeks and other peoples of antiquity were able to sway whole nations with immortal songs such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, so the beauty and the power of certain future productions for the screen shall fire the hearts of humanity, help to remind the men of all nations and creeds that they are brothers capable of suffering the same sorrows and of sharing the same joys. The amphitheatre of the screen is the whole civilized world! And the children of all lands sit in one mighty congregation soul-hungry for experience and beauty. Therefore, the task of the producer of exceptional pictures should be as overwhelming a responsibility as if he were a priest speaking to every heart that beats on the earth of his day. 348