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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XII
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The boy's consequent struggle with the malady has been traced step by step, so the play should end here.

It would then be a rough equivalent of the Ibsen irony in a contrary medium.

Instead of that, it wanders on through paraphrases of scraps of the play, sometimes literal, then quite alien, on to the alleged motion picture punch, when the Doctor is the god from the machine.

There is no doctor on the stage in the original Ghosts.

But there is a physician in the Doll's House, a scientific, quietly moving oracle, crisp, Spartan, sophisticated.
Is this photoplay physician such a one?
The boy and his half-sister are in their wedding-clothes in the big church.


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