In the Donald Hall interview for Paris Review (reprinted in Hall's
Remembering Poets, p. 225), Pound says:
 
"There is a lot of competition [with opetry] that never was there before.
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney.  It's in
having taken an ethos, as he does in *Perri*, that squirrel film, where you
have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody
can understand.  You have got an absolute genius there.  Youhave got a
greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander
the Great....And now what one has got with the camera is an enormous
correlation of particulars.  That capacity for making contact is a
tremendous challenge to literature.  It throws up the question of what needs
to be done and what is superfluous."
 
Michael Alleman
 
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Ezra Pound  had a lot of interest in media to present new modern poetry.
In addition, he had an interest in the other media, such as music and the
visual arts.  In the age of film, I think, Pound also had an interest in
it.  Someonw told me that Pound compared Flaubert's novel to the movie.
Except that brief information, I do not have any further knowledge on
Pound's interest in film.  Has he never gone to see any movie?
 
Seung