Kingdom of Shadows
“Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there. It is a world without sound, without color. Every thing there-the earth, the trees, the people, the water and the air-is dipped in monotonous gray. Gray rays of the sun across the gray sky, gray eyes in gray faces, and the leaves of the trees are ashen gray. It is not life but its shadow, it is not motion but its soundless specter.”
-Maxim Gorky
upon seeing his first motion picture, a Lumière Brothers film.
Read this in an article about Walter Murch.
-Maxim Gorky
upon seeing his first motion picture, a Lumière Brothers film.
Read this in an article about Walter Murch.