THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE By VACHEL LINDSAY Intended, First of All, for the New Art Museums Springing Up All over the Country. But the Book Is for Our Universities and Institutions of Learning. It Contains an Appeal to Our Whole Critical and Literary World, and to Our Creators of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, and the American Cities They Are Building. Being the 1922 Revision of the Book First Issued in 1915, and Beginning With an Ample Discourse on the Great New Prospects of 1922 "Hail, all ye gods in the house of the soul, who weigh Heaven and Earth in a balance, and who give celestial food." From the book of the scribe Ani, translated from the original Egyptian hieroglyphics by Professor E.A. Wallis Budge Dedicated TO GEORGE MATHER RICHARDS IN MEMORY OF THE ART STUDENT DAYS WE SPENT TOGETHER WHEN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM WAS OUR PICTURE-DRAMA CONTENTS A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DENVER ART ASSOCIATION BOOK I THE GENERAL PHOTOPLAY SITUATION IN AMERICA, JANUARY 1, 1922, ESPECIALLY AS VIEWED FROM THE HEIGHTS OF THE CIVIC CENTRE AT DENVER, COLORADO, AND THE DENVER ART MUSEUM, WHICH IS TO BE A LEADING FEATURE OF THIS CIVIC CENTRE BOOK II THE OUTLINE WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AS THE BASIS OF PHOTOPLAY CRITICISM IN AMERICA, BOTH IN THE STUDIOS OF THE LOS ANGELES REGION, AND ALL THE SERIOUS CRITICISM WHICH HAS APPEARED IN THE DAILY PRESS AND THE MAGAZINES CHAPTER I. THE POINT OF VIEW II. THE PHOTOPLAY OF ACTION III. THE INTIMATE PHOTOPLAY IV. THE MOTION PICTURE OF FAIRY SPLENDOR V. THE PICTURE OF CROWD SPLENDOR VI. THE PICTURE OF PATRIOTIC SPLENDOR VII. THE PICTURE OF RELIGIOUS SPLENDOR VIII. SCULPTURE-IN-MOTION IX. PAINTING-IN-MOTION X. FURNITURE, TRAPPINGS, AND INVENTIONS IN MOTION XI. ARCHITECTURE-IN-MOTION XII. THIRTY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PHOTOPLAYS AND THE STAGE XIII. HIEROGLYPHICS BOOK III MORE PERSONAL SPECULATIONS AND AFTERTHOUGHTS NOT BROUGHT FORWARD SO DOGMATICALLY XIV. THE ORCHESTRA, CONVERSATION, AND THE CENSORSHIP XV. THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON XVI. CALIFORNIA AND AMERICA XVII. PROGRESS AND ENDOWMENT XVIII. ARCHITECTS AS CRUSADERS XIX. ON COMING FORTH BY DAY XX. THE PROPHET-WIZARD XXI. THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DENVER ART ASSOCIATION The Art of the Moving Picture, as it appeared six years ago, possessed among many elements of beauty at least one peculiarity. It viewed art as a reality, and one of our most familiar and popular realities as an art. This should have made the book either a revelation or utter Greek to most of us, and those who read it probably dropped it easily into one or the other of the two categories.