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Excerpt from The Art of the Moving Picture
Isis, the Tivoli, and the Riviera, the while it is sadly noted that the pictures are driving literature Off the parlor table.
With the creative implications of this new pictorial art, with the whole visual-minded race clamoring for more, what may we not dream in the way of a new renaissance? How are we to step in to the possession of such a destiny? Are the institutions with a purely literary theory of life going to meet the need? Are the art schools and the art museums making themselves ready to assimilate a new art form? Or what is the type of institution that will ultimately take the position of leadership in cul ture through this new universal instrument?
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