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'The Futurist Cinema'

1. Cinematic analogies
   "The mountains, seas, woods, cities, crowds, armies, squadrons, aeroplanes will be 
   our formidable expressive words: the universe will be our vocabulary."
   "We shall add color to the dialogue by swiftly, simultaneously showing every image 
   that passes through the actors’ brains."
   
2. Cinematic poems, speeches, poetry
   "...transforming ... the most nostalgically monotonous weepy poetry 
   into violent, exciting, and highly exhilarating spectacles."
   
3. Cinematic simultaneity and interpretation
   "We shall project two or three different visual episodes at the same time..."
   
4. Cinematic musical researches
   "dissonances, harmonies, symphonies of gestures, events, colors, lines, etc."
   
5. Dramatized states of mind on film
   
6. Daily exercises in freeing ourselves from mere photographic logic
   
7. Filmed dramas of objects
   "Objects animated, humanized... removed from their normal surroundings... 
   throws into relief their amazing construction and nonhuman life."
   
8. Show windows of filmed ideas, events, types, objects, etc.
   
9. Congresses, flirts, fights, and marriages of funny faces, mimicry, etc.
   "Example: a big nose that silences a thousand congressional fingers 
   by ringing an ear, while two policemen’s moustaches arrest a tooth."
   
10. Filmed unreal reconstructions of the human body
    
11. Filmed dramas of disproportion
    "a thirsty man who pulls out a tiny drinking straw that lengthens umbilically 
    as far as a lake and dries it up instantly."
    
12. Potential dramas and strategic plans of filmed feelings
    
13. Linear, plastic, chromatic equivalences, etc.
    "...with white lines on black we shall show the inner, physical rhythm 
    of a husband who discovers his wife in adultery and chases the lover..."
    
14. Filmed 'words-in-freedom' in movement
    "...synoptic tables of lyric values—dramas of humanized or animated letters
    —orthographic dramas—typographical dramas..."