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telling score. It is not, like Nanook and Moana and also Man of Aran, a purely visual experience, for we have words, dialogue to which from time to time we stop to listen. But still Bob's search was for movement and how to tell his story through the camera. So soon as we started shooting, long dialogues, soliloquies, and other verbal devices bequeathed to us by our survey began dropping away (out of our minds), and more and more the lovely movement of the life around us— of birds, alligators, 'coons, of fishing boats and oil barges, and the coming of the derrick and the ballet of the drill pipes going down— took their place.
That life is movement we all know. But we can see how deeply this is so in a beautiful film3 which shows us under the microscope the rhythmic flow, the measured movement, in protoplasm, the primordial stuff of which we are all made. When this movement stops, the measure that measures it still goes on unbroken, and when movement begins again, we see it come in, like music, on the beat. The beauty of this film is its simple and profound approach to this rhythmic mystery, taking us on the one hand into physics and chemistry, and on the other into the realm of philosophy, religion, poetry. Leonardo da Vinci says, "Where there is warmth there is hfe, and where there is life there is the movement of love."4 The movement of love, the mysterious rhythm of life— this is the life of film. Take, for instance, the hands of the potter as he molds the clay. The motion-picture camera can follow these movements closely, intimately, so intimately that as with our eyes we follow, we come to feel those movements as a sensation in ourselves. Momentarily we touch and know the very heart and mind of the potter; we partake, as it were, of his hfe, we are one with him.
3. Seifriz on Protoplasm, by William Seifriz and J. M. B. Churchill, Jr. Copyright 1955 J. M. B. Churchill, Jr. Distributed by the Educational Film Library Association, 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y.
4. From the commentary of the motion picture Leon ar do da Vinci: Man of Mystery. (Pictura Films Distribution Corporation, 41 Union Square West, New York 3, N.Y.)
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