Talk:Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz

Dedication[edit]

The draft version of this article was dedicated to the memory of Siegfried Sassoon, who survived the First World War, and lived through the Second.

                           Picture-Show

And still they come and go: and this is all I know—— -
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,
With glad or grievous hearts I’ll never understand
Because Time spins so fast, and they’ve no time to stay
Beyond the moment’s gesture of a lifted hand.

And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,
The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same
As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been...
And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.

                                                                           (1919)^[1]

MinorProphet (talk) 04:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

References

^ Title poem from Sassoon, Siegfried (1920). Picture-Show. [London: Heinemann, 1919]. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 1.

"...between the shadow and the blinding flame" appears to be a direct reference to Plato's cave. Jean-Luc Godard in his 1987 King Lear considers the parallels in depth, in his own deliberately mystifying allegory. But I wonder who was the very first to make the connection? MinorProphet (talk) 14:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clicking on Random article...[edit]

...leads to the Eden Musée, New York City, the first licensee of Edison's motion pictures; with certain visual similarities in the roof department. Coincidental, no doubt. MinorProphet (talk) 06:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Title poem from Sassoon, Siegfried (1920). Picture-Show. [London: Heinemann, 1919]. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 1.

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