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Shadow Pictures, Shadow Theaters and Silhouettes The Embryonic Motion Picture Was Bred in Legendary Death and Sorrow— The Scientific Motion Picture of the Future Will Be a Con- vincing Shadow of Actuality and Substance By MARY TAYLOR FALT and MARY HARROD NORTHEND Shadows —a pair of scissors! What a far cry to the modern wonders —Motion Pictures! This present era is indeed "The Promised Land" of pictorial art for all who will mi- grate and drink at its great fount of learning. To quote Elbert Hubbard: ^Up to less than a hundred years ago, civiliza- tion was provincial. The few were able to travel and see. Superstition submerged the most enlightened. With Motion Pictures we have one of the great educational factors of the times. You get this amusement with Jeffer- sonian simplicity and practical de- mocracy. You get your money's worth without frills, fads and fussiness. Motion Pictures are making this old world a better and happier place be- cause we are getting acquainted with the world. Motion Pictures satisfy because they really shoiv knowledge, customs and lidbits of the world. Even great doctors prescribe them for nervous patients. They change their grouches to grins," says the Roycroft philosopher, in his characteristic phrasing. Fully to appreciate, respect and elevate Motion Pictures to their high- est altitude, make a study of the various eras of pictorial art. You will discover what a debt the world 89 owes to the master mind who con- ceived Motion Pictures. He is of the elect. His success is monumental in comparison with the struggles of others. Amateurish and strange indeed were the devious paths pic- torial art took to satisfy the reproduc- tive and pleasure-loving tastes of all peoples. In our previous articles on "Old Time Wall-Papers" and the "Old- Time Marine Figure-heads," we en- deavored to present two forerunners of Motion Pictures. Now, the real handmaid to their scientific develop- ment and that of the stereopticon, "the step-sister of photography," "the poor relative of the art world," and "the pioneer of the cheap por- trait," was the shadow picture, and later the silhouette. Today the fashion world talks of the silhouette figure. To the unini- tiated, it bespeaks frivolity, hobble- skirts and conspicuous femininity. To the art world and to Motion Picture projectors, it indicates one of the most potential art eras. To the fashionable charity bazaar, it means a clever, artistic attraction. In the legendary origin of shadow pictures and the silhouette there are romance and tragedy intermingled. A lover, returning after a short ab-