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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XVII
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The race of man cannot afford automobiles, but has them nevertheless.

We cannot run away into non-automobile existence or non-steam-engine or non-movie life long at a time.

We must conquer this thing.

While the more stately scientific and educational aspects just enumerated are slowly on their way, the artists must be up and about their ameliorative work.
Every considerable effort to develop a noble idiom will count in the final result, as the writers of early English made possible the language of the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton.

We are perfecting a medium to be used as long as Chinese ideographs have been.


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