Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

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CLOSE UP 321 From Pabst's new sound-film, " Kameradschaft." A Nero Production. Cliches de " Kameradschaft," nouveau film sonore de G. W . Pabst. Production: Nero-Film. Aus Pabsts neuem Tonfilm " Kameradschaft." Ein Nero-Film. THE PRELIMINARY OF FILM ART ii Film, Painting and Music. In the already discussed categories of the vanguard film we notice evident analogies with the tendencies of modern painting, the ideas and problems of which are almost fully conveyed within the province of film art. It is a fact worthwhile mentioning that the propagators of such films are prevalently painters. Generally in the theories concerning film art there prevails an erroneous idea that the film has very much in common with painting. These frequent analogies of the film with painting, (met with among many film theorists) though in principle entirely erroneous, have their own foundation, being based on the view that the film as well as painting belongs to the same sphere of optical shaping. Nevertheless a principal and characteristic difference is being overlooked, which has been pointed out by Moholy-Nagy in his essay Noch einmal die Elemente (Once more the elements), wherein he confirms the simple and, as it would seem, evident truth, that while painting either absorbs or reflects light by means of colours, i.e., that an indirect form of optical shaping, in the film, contrary to this, such form is direct and beside the direct optical shaping the shaping of motion takes place also.