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Excerpt from The Story of the Films: As Told by Leaders of the Industry to the Students of the Graduate School of Business Administration, George F. Baker Foundation, Harvard University
The pictures are also more elastic than spoken plays, set in stationary backgrounds, can ever be. The scene may shift instantly from place to place, and back and forth in time, so that one picture comments on another in a sort of silent dialogue. It may change in scale and distance, now diminished, now prodigiously enlarged, now dissolved and disappearing, now blending into some thing far away. It may be dimmed or brightened, con fused or cleared, Whipped up, slowed down, turned this way and that, and shown from innumerable angles. The only limit of its depth is the horizon, of its height the sky. Obviously the photoplay has points of distinct superiority over the stage drama.
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