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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIII
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When you see one flashed on the screen, you know instantly you are dealing with royalty or its implications.

The last one I saw that made any particular impression was when Mary Pickford acted in Such a Little Queen.

I only wished then that she had a more convincing throne.
Let us cut one out of black cardboard.

Turning the cardboard over to write on it the spirit-meaning, we inscribe some such phrase as The Throne of Wisdom or The Throne of Liberty.
Here is the hieroglyphic of a hand: [Illustration] Roman equivalent, the letter D.The human hand, magnified till it is as big as the whole screen, is as useful in the moving picture alphabet as the letter D in the printed alphabet.

This hand may open a lock.


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