[Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West by Edith Van Dyne]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Jane’s Nieces Out West CHAPTER II 5/12
"Personally, I care little for your pictures; but I can understand how travel scenes and scientific or educational subjects might be of real benefit to the people." "I can't understand anyone's being indifferent to the charm of motion pictures," he responded, somewhat reproachfully. "Why, at first they struck me as wonderful," said the girl.
"They were such a novel invention that I went to see them from pure curiosity.
But, afterward, the subjects presented in the pictures bored me.
The drama pictures were cheap and common, the comedy scenes worse; so I kept away from the picture theatres." "Educational pictures," said Mr.Werner, musingly, "have proved a failure, as I hinted, except when liberally interspersed with scenes of action and human interest.
The only financial failures among the host of motion picture theatres, so far as I have observed, are those that have attempted to run travel scenes and educational films exclusively.
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