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modality, and along with this change comes an interest in
words, not as visually uniform and continuous, but as unique
worlds in depth. Hence the craze for puns and word-play, even
in sedate ads.
In terms of other media such as the printed page, film has
the power to store and to convey a great deal of information.
In an instant it presents a scene of landscape with figures that
would require several pages of prose to describe. In the next
instant it repeats, and can go on repeating, this detailed
information. The writer, on the other hand, has no means of
holding a mass of detail before his reader in a large bloc or
gestalt . As the photograph urged the painter in the direction of
abstract, sculptural art, so the film has confirmed the writer in
verbal economy and depth symbolism where the film cannot
rival him.