That marvel - the movie : a glance at its reckless past, its promising present, and its significant future (1923)

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Title:
That marvel - the movie : a glance at its reckless past, its promising present, and its significant future
Date:
1923
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putman's Sons
Volume:
That marvel - the movie : a glance at its reckless past, its promising present, and its significant future
Leaf #:
00062
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
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Media History Digital Library
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Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
September 05, 2024
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48 THAT MARVEL— THE MOVIE pioneers who could not realize its power for good nor foresee its future greatness both as an art and as a moulder of public opinion, morals and enlightenment. But the screen in its early years was dominated largely by get-rich-quick exploiters, adventurers out for the easy money flowing into the coffers of the movie "palaces," less admirable in most ways than the hard-boiled treasure-seekers who flock to newlydiscovered gold-fields. There is something of the romantic and heroic in the Argonauts who developed California, the South African diamond mines and the Klondike. They risked their lives in a great game of chance and won or lost in a dramatic struggle in which the winners had displayed necessarily certain sturdy, sterling qualities. The gold-bearing realm of the movies, on the other hand, was invaded at the outset by a good many speculative fortune-seekers who staked upon their ventures nothing but their craftiness and their audacity. They were about as admirable as a bucket-shop gambler who, by expending a minimum of money and energy, hopes for a movement of the market that shall make him rich over night. The movie, as an anonymous writer in Collier's Weekly says, was, in its early days, nothing that could justifiably attract a big investor, or a real novelist, or a good actor. The first movie-actors