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 #:
000136
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
September 05, 2024
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m THAT MARVEL— THE MOVIE worthy in its achievements of the splendid possibilities that are within its grasp. That potent, pushing, perverse offspring of the printing-press, the newspaper, has begun to realize that it can be no longer exclusively typographical but must become in part photographical. It is following in the footsteps of the screen in making use of the only universal language the ingenuity of Man has yet devised. A recent editorial in the New York Tribune says: The Tribune was the first newspaper to adapt for journalistic purposes the printing of the half-tone photograph. The innovation started the rising flood of newsin-pictures which i> so distinctive a feature of the American pre>s of 1988. . . . Some of the events of the cL news can be visualised for the reader simply by the printed word. Others need the aid of a picture. Others --till find presentation possible in a picture alone. . . . The universal appeal of pictures can he taken advani of for sound informative and educational purposes, instead of for scandal and filth. Indeed, it should be used, as the London Times and other conservative newspapers have realized through their daily pages of pictures. ''The universal appeal of pictures l* Mankind from the days when our ancestors sketched reindeer upon the walls of their caves has felt their appeal, but only recently has its universality become of crucial Mgnificance to the race. The printing-press,