The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema (1959)

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THE CINEMA AS A GRAPHIC ART speed gives the closest approximation to a transmission of the true speed I movement of the object. Acceleration of the shooting speed produces a braking effect during pr jection, and this can be carried to the extent of effecting an analytical disintegr tion of the actual movement into its various phases. Reduction of the shooting speed produces the effect of accelerating tl movement on the screen. In the first instance the time taken to show the dynamic process on tl screen exactly corresponds with the time taken by the actual process during i shooting. In the second instance the projection time exceeds that taken during tl1 shooting of the original dynamic process. In the third instance the result is the converse of the second. The time factor is of enormous importance as a means of expressive organ sation of the shot temporally. We can either slow up the movement or can accelerate it to the point of tl grotesque, can approximate it to an analytical disintegration into its componei phases ; by such means in any case we can control the length of the dynam process on the screen one way or another. Just as we can isolate details for the spectator's attentive consideration t photographing in close-ups, so, in the edited projection of a dynamic process v can give a ' close-up ' of an individual phase of a movement by giving it long* projection, transforming it into an expressive accent of the editing phrase. Tr accentuation of an accelerated or retarded turning movement, the accentuatio' of a slow fall, the accentuation of temporally protracting a piece of acting : the* are all means of expression which we can apply with other means, already mer tioned, to produce a given emotional effect when constructing the image. Our motivation for deciding upon one or another method of temporal) organising the dynamic process may be found either in the specific qualities ( the object photographed (unusually fast or slow actual movement which calls fc alteration) or in the purely scenario requirements determining a certain signifies tory and emotional effect. 66