Marker records the filming of a luminous, oneiric scene of mad Hidetora riding through a field of glittering golden grass by night, with a huge golden moon "worthy of Meliès" following him in the arms of an unseen stagehand—the crew spent all day spray-painting the field—after which we are almost unsurprisingly informed the scene was cut from the final film.

This is like a scene from a masterpiece of Luddish cinema, as yet unlost. "...the moon itself pursued a frieze of tragic fugitives..."

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