Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 128: The Motion Picture in Its Economic and Social Aspects; November, 1926
The extreme brevity Of motion pic ture experience is the only truly unique aspect of its history. The motion picture differs in its growth pattern from the other arts only in velocity, the swiftness with which phase follows phase Its opportunity had been ripen ing through the ages. The screen was long over-due, hence the extraordinary effulgence of its early period Of develop ment. The one amazing fact is that in the motion picture alone has an art form sprouted and grown to complete flora tion within a single generation. It has been possible for one man to stand by and see the motion picture emerge from the laboratory and unfold into a world institution of surpassing importance. The sensational compression Of motion picture development is to be realized when we consider that the art of the drama is Older than measured time, that the origin of the book is lost among the scrolls Of antiquity and that the art of printing dates back at least half a millennium. The motion picture screen began only yesterday, in the year Of 1896. 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.
