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Talking Pictures
important among the influences which will some day end war, for war appears more horrible when we actually see men killed before our eyes. And nowadays with transatlantic Zeppelins and transpacific airplanes, a king can be crowned in London on a Monday, and the exact manner of his coronation witnessed by theatre audiences in New York on the following Friday.
The time may come when people going to their work in the morning may stop by a theatre in order to see the dailv news. When we consider that wire transmission of photography brings us pictures of world events within a few hours of their occurrence, that airplanes transport films within a few hours after their development, we realize that the motion picture must be considered of great importance as a means of communication.
Years ago the rulers of vast empires and the generals of great armies depended on messengers who ran afoot or on horse. In ancient Egvpt the natives recorded their history on clav or stone, not unlike the natives of ancient Mexico. But through the ages, man has learned the value of a knowledge of events as thev occur. And through the centuries he has mastered the means to acquire this news. Just as the development of the film industry is a biography of genius, so also is the development of communication. Yet the most amazing of discoveries related to communication were made in the last century. What the coming years may bring one hesitates to say. The possibilities of the newsreel, linked to perfected television, are almost staggering in their social implications.