We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
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Talking Pictures
tained. One file may tell what man or organization has the finest existing library on Tibet. In another, one finds the name and address of a man who is an expert on the habits of the llama, a South American beast of burden.
Another section contains thousands upon thousands of clipped pictures, carefully indexed and cross-indexed by subject. If a director wishes to see a fire engine of the 1905 period, he will find under that classification a half dozen illustrations of such equipment. Since the film is a pictorial art, these picture files are vitally important. Every research head guards them and looks forward to some unexpected discovery which will enrich the collection.
During a London rainstorm one research director had stopped for shelter near a secondhand store. She noted copies of Punch hidden under stacks of old newspapers. She moved the pile slightly and found complete sets of the magazine for years, beginning with 1841. For research connected with such pictures as The Barretts of Wimpole Street and David Copperfield the value of the find could not be estimated in money.
So thorough is modern motion picture research that the percentage of errors which reach a finished picture is infinitesimal. It should be emphasized that the perfection to which motion picture research has been carried must be considered in any discussion concerning the appreciation of a good motion picture. Few other arts have brought research to a point so fine, for no other art has had focused upon its works the eyes of so many millions of people.
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