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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIV
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No one heard the blacksmith, unless he stopped to shout straight at us.
The _phonoplay_ can quite possibly reach some divine goal, but it will be after the speaking powers of the phonograph excel the photographing powers of the reel, and then the pictures will be brought in as comment and ornament to the speech.

The pictures will be held back by the phonograph as long as it is more limited in its range.

The pictures are at present freer and more versatile without it.

If the _phonoplay_ is ever established, since it will double the machinery, it must needs double its prices.

It will be the illustrated phonograph, in a more expensive theatre.
The orchestra is in part a blundering effort by the local manager to supply the human-magnetic element which he feels lacking in the pictures on which the producer has not left his autograph.


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