Plan for cinema (1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Plan for cinema
Date:
1936
Publisher:
London : J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
Volume:
Plan for cinema
Leaf #:
00056
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER II / sometimes allow my thoughts ^Jojdwell on the film — one day . I^shall be uttering them at length. — Thomas Mann, Past Masters. § i . Now,, what is the nature of this half-art of cinema, this huge popular pastime of prodigious growth? What relation, if any, does it bear to the arts of antiquity, and most especially to the antique art of drama? For it is neither wholly temporal nor wholly spatial, but a synthesis, like the play and the dance. Time is an essential of its existence, as much as it is of music and of literature. It differs from theatre, or dramatic and lyric literature made materially manifest, in no other essentials bar two, which now place it in a category apart. Unlike theatre, it is physically free ; and it can disintegrate ajscene giving an orientation of viewpoint to the spectator that is nearly universal, but only in a scenographic sense. Its quality of physical freedom is its salient characteristic; the capacity to present a raging storm at sea and a sedate drawing-room with equal realistic dexterity and in continuous sequence without interval. Thus does it approach nearer the world of dream than any medium known hitherto. For unlike literature in this relation^ it is materially visual, which literature is not. We 40