Richard Armstrong wrote:
> "A film is hundreds of moments photographed and
> joined together to create an illusion of something
> which did not take place."
> Michael Winner
Apparently "in a TV interview" (the site is no more specific than that)
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/film-real/docs/frameset.html
> "With Lumiere, trains entered stations, with
> Melies they got off the rails and flew into
> the clouds."
> Claude Beylie
The quote is used, apparently without attribution, by Ginette Vincendeau in
the Encyclopedia of European Cinema.
Online here:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/9384/directors/melies.htm
Ginette Vincendeau here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/about/staff/vincendeau/
HTH :-)
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