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xxiv INTRODUCTION
to me unfolding in Time and Space, detecting and recording, in a more or less dramatic and thrilling way, the different aspects of the Great Gamble which is the striking feature of human life to-day. The complete picture of this dramatic theme obtained by sifting, assembling, editing, pasting together the bits of film or records, is the picture of the scope of the book. No one I think is more fond of analogies than I am, and the fascinating story of the Cinema evokes many similitudes. It has much that is analogous to the amazing story of the Great Financial Gamble; it has something analogous to the Bible story of the Fall and Redemption of Man to which I shall come presently; something analogous to the story of Croesus and Solon, of Gold crushing Wisdom. As the Cinema is attracting the close attention of all manner of men and women it may not be unreasonable to employ different similitudes to set forth the course of a remarkable career. Method. it is necessary to say something about method,
because a book that presents a subject from a new point of view, and with a wealth of detail that seems to be the outcome of a process of gathering, sifting and classifying records and innumerable facts, is apt to be mistaken for an interesting piece of compilation and nothing more, and mercilessly dismissed as such.
My method is not a compilation. It is a construction, and I am vain enough to believe that it is a creative construction. I think I am correct in calling the result of my method an architectural structure. The method itself is analogous to building. I have considered the Cinema, with