The film finds its tongue (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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CHAPTER I FOUR MEN STAKE ALL On the night of August 6, 1926, a drama was being shown on the screen of a New York movie theatre. On that same night and in the same Broadway theatre another drama was actually taking place in the lives of four men who sat well back in the same audience that watched the film. Before the screen drama was solved the terrific problem that faced this little group of men would also have been solved. Whether they would be rich or bankrupt, wise men or fools, successes or failures, was being decided by the large public jury that sat about them. One of the men wiped his mouth nervously with his hand. "Maybe we win," he muttered. The other three only gripped the arms of their seats more tightly and in grim silence awaited the verdict. 3