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1 Form in early movies / i What Color
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59 Chromatic Sequences 1 Form in early movies flickering leaves in the outline of the canopy, color lost as if each leaf alight were a dart of flame off green gone ashen to the eye, each leaf a page-smoke the distance each page has come to history: the haze of each past raises its shade of dust each veil its valley of living the distance between it and the next like tree rings the steps as much an aerial as mortal perspective The trees bend in sequence, the eye watches thin air, but sees the wind. 60 i (What Color Photographers Call the Magic Hour) The colors of light arrived as a time of day, sat in the whites only. Formal or not the torch of film caught up with changes and American color photography was invented with blood. Everything turned golden brown done in a low sun. The cities burnt. ...