Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such opportunities before them. Harvard men will undoubtedly rise to the occasion, and the threatened scarcity of handsome males in Movieland will be obliterated by an ingratiating influx of visages fit only to adorn the epics of the celluloid drama...
America understands her movies, for she realizes that there has never been as easy an escape from reality. But America as yet does not live and die by her celluloid deities. From the horse operas of Mr. Mix one would gain the impression that the only buildings west of the Mississippi were log cabins, that the only inhabitants were cowboys and Indians. And life in New York is really not a beaten track between the Ritz and the night clubs...
While hot, hissing celluloid flames cut off the only door, the barn, tinder-dry, kindled with a roar. Forty-nine persons were burned to death in this, the worst cinema-theatre fire in the history of the British Isles...
...love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently...
...believing-and remem- bering. If adults can be made to believe that painted ladies and yel- low-collared gentlemen are nobly in love with each other, or that certain drawing-room manners, courageous leaps and skillful rescues represent slices from real life, simply by the flicker of light through celluloid, then surely children can be made to believe, remember and perhaps understand certain other human activities and natural phenomena of a more educational nature...