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72 PLAN FOR CINEMA
of the technique of cinema to his own, self-evolved form in which he cast his great drama. I propose now to quote two or three parts of scenes from The Dynasts in order to show Hardy's relevance to cinema, and, in particular, to the colour, stereoscopic film we have been discussing. At the very beginning, in the Fore Scene, a cinematic technique reveals itself. The Spirit and Chorus of the Pities, the Shade of the Earth, the Spirits Sinister and Ironic with their Choruses, Rumours, Spirit-messengers, and Recording Angels have been speaking. They are addressed by the Spirit of the Years :
Spirit of the Years:
Methinks too much assurance thrills your note
On secrets in my locker, gentle sprites ;
But it may serve — our thought being now reflexed
To forces operant on this English Isle,
Behoves it us to enter scene by scene,
And watch the spectacle of Europe's moves
In her embroil, as they were self-ordained
According to the naive and liberal creed
Of our great-hearted young Compassionates,
Forgetting the Prime Mover of the gear,
As puppet-watchers him who pulls the strings —
You '11 mark the twitchings of this Bonaparte
As he with other figures foots his reel,
Until he twitch him into his lonely grave :
Also regard the frail ones that his flings
Have made gyrate like animalcula
In tepid pools. — Hence to the precinct, then,
And count as framework to the stagery
Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud —
So may ye judge Earth's jackaclocks to be
Not fugled by one Will, but function free.