The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000265
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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243 A CONQUEST OF WORLDS picture of to-day, Hampden’s productions will go only to the English-speaking countries, Gemier’s only to France and her colonies. If its vogue supplants that of the older form, the international motion-picture business will simply fall apart into national groups. Artistically this would mark an advance, probably; but socially a retrogression, Whatever may be the sins of the silent film nothing else in history has so advanced that world-wide acquaintance between peoples which is the beginning of understanding. Unconsciously, those fur workers, small salesmen, clothing operatives, and vaudeville performers who brought the moving picture out of the back streets, were creating the first universal language of mankind.