The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, London [etc.] Broadway publishing company
Volume:
The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
"Edition of 3000 copies ... Autographed edition."
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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SntroDuctorp ences will be taught not only more effectively, because more interestingly, but in one-half the time now required; and then our children will have time to learn how to spell and cipher and read intelligently, and yet play as much as healthy children should. The tendency and influence to-day in the cinematographic realm is undeniably for better things. The truly lamentable late date of its arrival is also undeniably due to the shortsightedness of the very men (this without reflection upon those who have given their best efforts in the past) who to-day are scrambling pell-mell over each other, to embark in the very enterprise they so lustily berated in the not far distant past. Their glasses were steamed and their visions dimmed by breath wasted in condem.ning and belittling the new science of entertainment and instruction. Men v/ho knew nothing of theatricals, but who perhaps only recognized quick and ready money jumped in, and the stock phrase, "The worst season in years," came stalking in grim reality down the Rialto, up the stairs into the various agencies, and continued its march until it entered the portals of the Holy-of-Holies of showdom. And not until the big interests were handed — in the language of the vernacular — a nicely placed kick in the bank roll, did they wake up. Then, with one hand on the seat of the pain, they announced, while wildly waving the other, that they were about to enter the "game." It looked easy : Acquire a camera; get some "people" together; adapt some of the threadbare success of the dim and distant past; and the other fellow would be wiped out.