The provided text offers extensive excerpts from Vachel Lindsay’s seminal work on early cinema, The Art of the Moving Picture, including a contemporary introduction by Stanley Kauffmann, an appendix by Kent Jones, and various prefaces and chapter segments. These sections articulate Lindsay’s bold and brilliant theory for categorizing film into three "foundation colors": Action, Intimacy, and Splendor, which he equates to sculpture-in-motion, painting-in-motion, and architecture-in-motion, respectively. The overview is rich with personal speculations and critical analysis of films and producers of the era, such as D.W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, positioning the new medium as a powerful social and artistic force with the potential for civic and religious uplift, even suggesting it could replace the saloon.

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