Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

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Victor Oscar Freeburg. Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. PICTORIAL ART IN THE MOVIES

CHAPTER II. THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF PICTORIAL COMPOSITION

CHAPTER III. EYE TESTS FOR BEAUTY

CHAPTER IV. PICTORIAL FORCE IN FIXED PATTERNS

CHAPTER V. RHYTHM AND REPOSE IN FIXED DESIGN

CHAPTER VI. MOTIONS IN A PICTURE

CHAPTER VII. PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT WORK

CHAPTER VIII. PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT PLAY

CHAPTER IX. PICTORIAL MOTIONS AT REST

CHAPTER X. MASTERY IN THE MOVIES

CHAPTER XI. THE MYSTERIOUS EMOTIONS OF ART

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Victor Oscar Freeburg

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The scene of the triplane in the pasture with the cows, mules, etc., might be mildly amusing. But our eyes would be taxed by its moving spots, and, since its tones would be dark or dark gray, the pupils of our eyes would become dilated, and would therefore be totally unprepared for the flash of white which follows in the next scene.

The white expanse of fleecy clouds would shock the eyes at first sight, since the approach to the subject had not been properly made; but in a moment we would be stirred by the feeling that we were really above the clouds. We would seem to have passed into a new world with floods of mist. The long stretches of white are soft as eiderdown, yet, because of our own motion, they seem like the currents of a broad river, and one can almost imagine that it were possible to steer a canoe over those rapids. All this would be the second thrill, beautiful in itself but not actually tending to emphasize the “punch” of a man transferring from one airplane to another.

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