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 #:
000176
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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162 THAT MARVEL— THE MOVIE race at large, and proceeds to show to mankind the way to that universal self knowledge that, if it comes to man in time, may protect his future from the blunders, crimes and tragedies that have disgraced his past. The screen may well be represented to our mind's eye as a modern Hamlet who says to a blood-stained Mother Earth: Look here upon this picture — and upon this! I show you to yourself as you have been — and to yourself as you may be. Look here at the horrors and devastation, the cruelties and crimes of yesterday and to-day. Then turn your eyes upon the world of to-morrow as I shall reveal it to you in its splendid possibilities — a new world, peaceful, industrious, contented, going forward from one great triumph in progressive civilization to another, differing from the earth that was and is as light from darkness, as day from night ! I show you the way, I reveal to you the decision that you must make. If yours be the baser choice, if you continue to repeat, generation after generation, the old blunders, the old crimes, I shall not be to blame. I, the screen, show you two roads, the one leading upward, the other downward. You may, by seeing your racial soul in the mirror I hold up to you, go to Heaven or to Hades. Your journey's end depends not upon me but upon you. What does Man crave — what has he always craved? Freedom. Freedom from what? From avoidable ills — preventable diseases, unnecessary poverty, unjustifiable wars, preventable accidents,