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54 PLAN FOR CINEMA
capacity of physical freedom used to etch character by use of close-up, the breaking up of a group of characters into detailed scrutiny by camera exploration and individual shot.
Before proceeding to consider the social tendency the category of cinema The Front Page represents, let us briefly examine its aesthetic, if such it has. If art be a reflection of reality, then this certainly is art. If, on the other hand, art be a transmutation of real values into a formal world, as we know it is, then this certainly is not art. It is a collective interpretation of realities made direct. An exhibition of enormous virtuosity in craftsmanship, call it representational popular art if you will. But art in the most severe sense of the word, no. And by severe I do not necessarily mean serious. The Magic Flute is 'light' in every sense ; nevertheless, it is a great work of art.
Cinema, as yet, is representational, too direct. It may show work, amongst individuals in the collective whole, of fine sensibility: it may produce work by interpretive artists, such as actors, which transcends the medium and moves us by sheer individual capacity alone, but that has little to do with the formal qualities inherent in the medium.
Films such as The Front Page, however, are certainly documents or chronicles. Every time one is made, and in varying degrees of excellence they constitute a large part of Hollywood's output, a document of considerable veracity showing America as she is to-day is stored for posterity in a tin. Their hard, tough,