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Whether the film is comic, dramatic or composed simply of clever, lively pictures does not alter the fact that the pleasure felt is, for them, the only truth. Others will see in the Cinema simply an element of culture; the news reels, contemporary historical relations, documentary films, perfect lessons about things, geography, science and advertisement.
Almost everyone will judge the Cinema on its applications, not on its spirit.
And yet, has not the Cinema the right to be judged on itself and for itself?
The Cinema is a new art, an undisclosed form of expression, absolutely different and separate from old forms of expression. The latter have merely introduced themselves into its technique and held up its spiritual development without contributing anything. It is not a substitute but a new instrument of thought, knowledge and art.
Cinematic Expression.
The Cinema, by its mechanical action, reveals its true artistic expression: it registers and re-establishes all movement in its essential and profound truth. To be logical, the direct and natural function of the cinema is to grasp life and to render its different dynamic moods.
All arts find their inspiration in nature. Some copy it. Others describe it and explain it, building their dreams on the base of material and sentimental realities transposed.
They only act, if I may say so, at second hand, by reflection. They do not work, as does the cinema, with life-matter itself.
A simple engagement of a length of sensitised perforated film working in a camera obscura furnished with a lens has brought about the miracle desired by artists of all times and countries, that of creating a work with direct and true elements whose intensity is undiminished by interpretation.
To sum up, the arts until today have been occupied in getting nearer to life. The Cinema trys, with the element of life itself to compose a work made of visual correspondance, of attitudes, of movements, of changing lines and of expressions whose relation and order create drama.
We can then say, without fear of being taxed with an Utopian attitude, that we find the expression of the Cinema, its true aesthetic, outside the purely plastic, outside literature, outside music (above all since the invention which enables us to record sound directly) and outside intellectualism — in movement and its origins.
The application of the discovery of sound and speech reproduction to the cinema, increases its possibilities without modifying its real nature. Speech and sound may be considered as an accompaniment, a splendid projection of the image, but thy have nothing to do with the constitution of its essential form. The Cinema will, therefore, throughout this article,