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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIV
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Some human peculiarities are not mentioned, some phrases not used.

The total attribute of the blue-pencil man is diplomacy.

But while the motion pictures come out every day, they get their discipline months afterwards in the legislation that insists on everything but tact.

A tentative substitute for the letters that come to the editor, the personal call and cancelled subscription, and the rest, is the system of balloting on the picture, especially the answer to the question, "What picture seen here this month, or this week, shall we bring back ?" Experience will teach how to put the queries.

By the same system the public might dictate its own cut-outs.


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