trick-picture

Updated: May 16, 2025

Then, after the purely trick-picture is disciplined till it has fewer tricks, and those more human and yet more fanciful, the producer can move on up into the higher realms of the fairy-tale, carrying with him this riper workmanship. Mabel Taliaferro's Cinderella, seen long ago, is the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers.

Vachel Lindsay - The Art of the Moving Picture