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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIV
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They should take the business of guidance in this new world as a sacred trust, knowing they have the power to influence an enormous democracy.
The moving picture journals and the literati are in straits over the censorship question.

The literati side with the managers, on the principles of free speech and a free press.

But few of the aesthetically super-wise are persistent fans.

They rave for freedom, but are not, as a general thing, living back in the home town.

They do not face the exigency of having their summer and winter amusement spoiled day after day.
Extremists among the pious are railing against the moving pictures as once they railed against novels.


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