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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER VI
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She is hailed as her city's deliverer.
She stands among the nobles like a holy candle.
Providing the picture may be preserved in its original delicacy, it has every chance to retain a place in the affections of the wise, if a humble pioneer of criticism may speak his honest mind.
Though in this story the archaic flavor is well-preserved, the way the producer has pictured the population at peace, in battle, in despair, in victory gives me hope that he or men like unto him will illustrate the American patriotic crowd-prophecies.

We must have Whitmanesque scenarios, based on moods akin to that of the poem By Blue Ontario's Shore.

The possibility of showing the entire American population its own face in the Mirror Screen has at last come.

Whitman brought the idea of democracy to our sophisticated literati, but did not persuade the democracy itself to read his democratic poems.

Sooner or later the kinetoscope will do what he could not, bring the nobler side of the equality idea to the people who are so crassly equal.
The photoplay penetrates in our land to the haunts of the wildest or the dullest.


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