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Robert Herring, Close Up, Territet, Switzerland, November 1929

„If The Circus seems to them a dance macabre of daguerreotypes“

Editorial content. „OVER THE MOON

      It was the cow that did it first, and Fritz Lang followed.

Forgive me, please. What an extraordinary world it was. Why did

the cow jump over the moon?“ (...)

      „Jump over the moon and return with some Griffith

gorgonzola or a piece of Camembert Chaplin.

Everyone will believe you if you write about the revolutions

Chaplin wrought, even if they think his films the worst

argument you could possibly adduce, even if The Circus seems

to them a dance macabre of daguerreotypes. Again,

you can gnaw hits off the moon when there is nothing else,

you imply, worth your attention. Write about an exotic

actor, detect (laudibly, but a trifle lavenderishly) hints of Russian,

O, damn that word, cutting in an old Essanay, and

miss, just because they are ordinary, the exciting things

that are happening on nice-smelling earth.“ (...)

                                                                    „Robert Herring.“

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