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374 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
ment has awakened public realization to the permanence of the movement. The news was received first in silence, then with comment of acceptance. A leader has pointed the way. The industry and the world will follow. Surely the period of indecisiveness is now concluded. With minds cleared of doubts we face to-morrows squarely, like workers who know the appointed task.
It is therefore not without some pardonable emotion that I round out my own offering for early publication. The explorations are finished. I fervently trust that this volume may serve the newcomers as chart and compass. They will need both to travel with us, or at least to start on the trail that has been blazed. Then, once pointed, let them follow as speedily as may be; and may the race, now as ever, be to the swift. What a change thirty years have brought! A generation ago, when the new territory was flung open, men swarmed over it like a migration of squatters and gipsies. But we have learned better; and now the van not only clears the way but leaves minute instructions behind. The industry has grown from an impulsive mob to an army of progress.
In this organization, this body of tradition, lies our firm security. We know what we are doing and where we are going. The pragmatism of maturity forms our judgments and points our real goals. The infant industry has attained full manhood, with eyes clear to records and facts — but best of all, with a new song of aspiration in its heart and on its lips. We shall chant it near and far; and to the sound men will turn and the whole world listen!