Text III: "Imatges and their fixed durations"

"Cinema has an interior rhythm, that of the image and an exterior rhythm, between the images; that means they are created by the order of successions of the imatges and their fixed durations."

Part III. "Théorie de cinéma". Moussinac

Endless Car II

Text

"The film is very much like a moving drawing. One motif follows another, each presented with the diagrammatic clarity of blackboard drawing all arranged along a diagonal axis."

Futurist Manifest

Only the acts and their movement

"The lack of this "present" is the essential characteristic of film. Not because films are still unperfected, not because even today their moving forms remain mute, but simply because they are only the acts and the movement of people, and not people themselves."

Fragment from Georg Lukacs in an article of 1913.