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CONTENTS

                                 

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I. THIS OUTLINE IS PROPOSED AS A BASIS
FOR PHOTOPLAY CRITICISM IN AMERICA 
Chapter  Page 
I.  The Point of View 
II.  The Photoplay of Action 
III.  The Intimate Photoplay  17 
IV.  The Motion Picture of Fairy Splendor  30 
V.  The Picture of Crowd Splendor  39 
VI.  The Picture of Patriotic Splendor  51 
VII.  The Picture of Religious Splendor  68 
VIII.  Sculpture-in-Motion  79 
IX.  Painting-in-Motion  97 
X.  Furniture, Trappings, and Inventions in
Motion
 
113 
XI.  Architecture-in-Motion  133 
XII.  Thirty Differences between the Photoplays
and the Stage
 
151 
XIII.  Hieroglyphics  171 
II. MORE PERSONAL SPECULATIONS AND
AFTERTHOUGHTS NOT BROUGHT FORWARD
SO DOGMATICALLY 
XIV.  The Orchestra, Conversation, and the
Censorship
 
189 
XV.  The Substitute for the Saloon  207 
XVI.  California and America  217 
XVII.  Progress and Endowment  225 
XVIII.  Architects as Crusaders  244 
XIX.  On Coming Forth by Day  252 
XX.  The Prophet-Wizard  261 
XXI.  The Acceptable Year of the Lord  277