Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

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Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
00028
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES Terry Ramsaye has named his excellent standard history of the motion picture A Million and One Nights. Ramsaye's reference is, of course, obvious. If we enjoy the anthology of the Arabians, The Thousand and One Nights, glamorous, romantic, exotic, filled with the uncertain and the unexpected, Ramsaye asks that we stop for a moment and consider the origin of the motion picture. It has a truly remarkable dramatic and scientific heritage. Out of the past of the motion picture we may find some of the reasons for its present amazing vitality. American history would be meaningless without Washington, Lincoln, and Jackson. Similarly, no one can know the present stature of the photoplay or attempt a prophecy of its future without understanding its past and the parts played in it by pioneers like Muybridge, Armat, Lumiere, Edison, Laemmle, Griffith, Zukor, Mayer, Thalberg, DeMille, Zanuck, and the Warners. But, long before these pioneers, there were men who had made inventions which played an important role in motion picture development. In 1640 Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit, showed his Magia Catoptrica, or magic lantern, before an audience of Roman nobles. His single shadows on the walls were [10]