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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER X
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It accounts for the volcanic fury of the nephew that takes such trouble to burn itself out afterwards.

It is not easy for the young to learn that they must let those people flay them for an hour who have made every sacrifice for them through a life-time.
This scene of insult and the confession scene, later in this film, moved me as similar passages in high drama would do; and their very rareness, even in the hands of photoplay masters, indicates that such purely dramatic climaxes cannot be the main asset of the moving picture.

Over and over, with the best talent and producers, they fail.
The boy and girl go to the party in spite of the uncle.

It is while on the way that the boy looks on the face of a stranger who afterwards mixes up in his dream as the detective.

There is a mistake in the printing here.


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