The reels run through as well as on Broadway or Michigan Avenue, but the local orchestra cannot play the music furnished in annotated sheets as skilfully as the local operator can turn the reel (or watch the motor turn it!).
The big social fact about the moving picture is that it is scattered like the newspaper.

Any normal accompaniment thereof must likewise be adapted to being distributed everywhere.

The present writer has seen, here in his home place, population sixty thousand, all the films discussed in this book but Cabiria and The Birth of a Nation.

It is a photoplay paradise, the spoken theatre is practically banished.

Unfortunately the local moving picture managers think it necessary to have orchestras.