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there is wasted in futile talking, discussing and in mutual misunderstanding! '
Every science has its laboratories, every art its experimei. tal stages. Certainly the Cinema should not be classified into Commercial . nd otherwise. It is a popular art and it should by its great humanity touch both the crowd and the elite. But apart from this general aim the possibilities of expression should be studied before a small and chosen public before a film is tried upon the general public.
Therefore it is clear that the avant-garde film, incomprehensible to the masses, is necessary to the art of the film as a whole, that stabilising element in the technique and sensibility of the film. The avant-garde works on unqualified matter, seeking always to beautify new facets. Some of the principles of the avant-garde, once universally ridiculed, are today the truths of the screen's dramatic technique. The Cinema of the avant-garde is the work of a few experimenters who produce their films, generally short, in the interval between more popular works and outside the official studios.
Avant-garde films are to me instructional films. They teach the public about the Cinema itself and they have the right to very special attention. They educate the public and raise the level of visual and auditory faculties in it. They also complete the expression of the image and transform little by little the ordinary recreational film which constitutes a splendid cultural method, for the recreational film in its ideal mediocrity does, in spite of itself, succeed in being something more than mere distraction.
From an international point of view every film is inspired with national customs. It shows national sites, decorative effort, styles, small industries and habits.
From a film one can judge the spirit and degree of culture of any race. The film is a messenger carrying tidings of the power, opinions and accomplishments of every race to the world at large.
The recreational cinema certainly brings nations together and makes them mutually understand moral and material progress by visual example. Certain styles have been adopted through films which have perhaps amused us but which we no longer remember because they did not seem to us remarkable. We learn to like, through images, the energy, gaiety and youth of certain peoples, the constructive faith of others.
The recreational film is of course at the bottom of the entire film industry. Every country bears the mark of its importance so that each country wishes to produce for itself, especially now that the introduction of the spoken word has set up new national obligations.
At the moment in Europe the film is being born again. I may add in passing that any film which is inspired by the soil will have the greatest chance of bringing nations together, sincerely, with naked souls.
Each country can exist in the Cinema only in the sincerity of its visual expression. Why, therefore, should not each race be encouraged to develop