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Motion Picture Appreciation
weigh its various parts, and see their relation clearly. In a process as complicated as making motion pictures, in which hundreds of people and many arts and crafts contribute to the whole, it is necessary that we should know the part played by every man, the contribution given by each craft.
In approaching the subject of motion pictures, one naturally considers Hollywood. But we must not overlook the fact that movies are made, and successfully, in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Bombay, Mexico City, China, Japan, and many other places. But in Hollywood about 70 per cent of all the world's successful commercial films are made. In this community we shall find the largest single assemblage of trained men and women, and adequate materials.
In Hollywood we shall see stories being chosen and written. We shall watch them as they pass through every process until the completed photodrama emerges from the laboratory in the shape of a narrow strip of celluloid ribbon, thirty-five millimetres wide and over a mile and a half in length.
We shall see scores of people doing different, fascinating things. We shall look into the future of the film industry and judge whether it is going up or down in the scale of importance during the next two or three decades. Beyond its place as an entertainment medium, we shall see what it offers to ambitious people with intelligence, courage, and imagination.
To some it will come as a surprise, and a challenge, to find themselves rubbing shoulders with so many different kinds of scientists and artists, working, experi
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