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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER IX
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And after the relentless test of time, I would venture that some one of the five would prove a permanent addition to the household gods.
Hastily made photographs selected from the films are often put in front of the better theatres to advertise the show.

Of late they are making them two by three feet and sometimes several times larger.

Here is a commercial beginning of an art gallery, but not enough pains are taken to give the selections a complete art gallery dignity.

Why not have the most beautiful scenes in front of the theatres, instead of those alleged to be the most thrilling?
Why not rest the fevered and wandering eye, rather than make one more attempt to take it by force?
Let the reader supply another side of the argument by looking at the illustrations in any history of painting.

Let him select the pictures that charm him most, and think of them enlarged and transferred bodily to one corner of the room, as he has thought of the sculpture.


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