Kauffmann, Charles Sheeler, & P's characters

[terrance terrance]

There exists a Film Generation: the first generation that has matured in a 
culture in which the film has been of accepted serious relevance, however 
that seriousness is defined. Before 1935 films were proportionately more 
popular than they are now, but for the huge majority of film goers they 
represented a regular weekly or semiweekly bath of escapism. Such an 
escapist audience still exists in large number, but another audience, most 
of the born since 1935, exists along with it. This group, this Film 
Generation, is certainly not exclusively grim, but it is essentially 
serious. Even its appreciations of sheer entertainment films reflect an 
overall serious view.

There are a number of reasons, old and new, intrinsic and extrinsic why this 
generation has come into being. Here are some of the older intrinsic ones.

1. In an age imbued with technological interest, the film art flowers out of 
technology. Excepting architecture, film is the one art that can capitalize 
directly and extensively on
this centuries luxuriance in applied science.

[...]

For the film maker the very instruments of his art provide communion with 
the spirit of his age.

[...]

The scientific skills employed are in themselves a link between the artist 
and the audience, and are a further link between them all and the unseen, 
unheard but apprehended society bustling outside the film theater.

[...]

In an era that is much concerned with the survival of the human being as 
such, in an increasingly mechanized age, here a complicated technology is 
used to celebrate the human being.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sheeler

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