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Over $20,000,000 was paid by exchanges to film manufacturers during the past year. Over $25,000,000 was paid by theatres to exchanges for the rental of films; $275,000,000 was paid by the public in admissions. There is about $25,000,000 invested in manufacturers' plants in the United States and fully $50,000,000 in finished negatives in stock. The money invested in motion picture theatres is estimated at $120,000,000. About 25,000 people are employed in connection with manufacturing, and probably 175,000 employed in theatres. The amount of film used in the United States alone in one year is over 200,000,000 feet, or almost 40,000 miles, and, as there are 32 pictures to each foot of film, this aggregates 3,200,000 separate photos of each man, woman and child in the United States, and, with all this, or the possibilities of this vast, all-embracing art, the surface has hardly been scratched. Europe is the accepted leader in things artistic, but it is universally conceded that American motion pictures are the best in the world and is proven by the fact that more American films are sold and exhibited in Europe than of their own product. When America stands in the foremost artistic and literary ranks, as she undoubtedly will in another decade, motion pictures will have been one of the most powerful contributing causes.
All summed up in a paragraph, the answer is — without a STORY — motion pictures would be what they were styled at their inception, a novelty or a fad. So literature is indissolubly linked with the future and success of the greatest of the Allied Arts, the "Life Portrayal" or "Thought Visualized" is perhaps better than all "Literature Realized."