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Ever since Thomas Alva Edison invented the motion picture, men have tried to make films that exploited the full potential of this new medium. That is, they have wanted to develop a new art form which could stand by itself, without heavy borrowing from related areas. Too often they have gone little beyond the scope of the legitimate theater; they have done little more than photograph a play heightened in its vividness by close-ups, mob scenes, fast-paced cutting and all the other techniques worked out over the last fifty years. And almost no one has created a film...
...Thomas Alva Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd were at various times regular customers of the book shops. Franklin Roosevelt once attributed the origin of his Hyde Park library, and his interest in collecting books and historiana, to the wise tutelage of Cornhill proprietors...
Ever since Thomas Alva Edison discovered the motion picture, men have tried to make films that exploited the full potential of this new medium. That is, they have wanted to develop a new art form which could stand by itself, without heavy borrowing from related areas. Too often they have gone little beyond the scope of the legitimate theater; they have done little more than photograph a play heightened in its vividness by close-ups, mob scenes, fast-paced cutting and all the other techniques worked out over the last fifty years. And Almost no one has created a film...
...Burma's Justice Aung Rhine, Togo's Ayite d'Almeida, Ethiopia's Ato Tashoma Hailemariam, Mexico's Dr. Salvador Martinez de Alva...
Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for-as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: "I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." Edison's invention has so profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the day-Elvis Presley-to build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison...