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Excerpt from Picture Values From an Artist's Viewpoint
Then came the great discovery that plays could be acted. Fire-runs, cowboys and explosions were interest ing' enough, but why not make them the thrills of a story? Needless to say, the character of these films was melo dramatic, and during this brilliant period of the photo drama tumult and cataclysm held forth, the plot and the thrill - principally the thrill - holding first place in the producer's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
