Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• YURI TYNIANOV

Titel

The Foundations of Film (1927)

Ist Teil von

• Permanent Evolution, 2019, p.242

Ort / Verlag

Academic Studies Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The invention of the cinematograph was greeted with the same delight as the invention of the gramophone. This delight had in it something of what primitive man must have felt when he first drew a leopard head on his rough blade, and simultaneously figured out how to pierce his nose with a stick. The hoopla in the press resembled a chorus of savages singing hymns of praise to these early inventions. It probably did not take long for primitive man to decide that a stick through the nose was nothing to write home about; though in any case it took