Word: demillennium
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...Everything in a first-rate DeMille picture is on a grand scale. He was the first director to realize that, since seeing is believing, anything is possible in the cinema. In the DeMillennium of the cinema industry before talkies, DeMille seldom made a picture that cost less than $1,000,000 or one that contained a cast of less than 10,000. By widening the dramatic scope of the cinema, talkies have made spectacles, as such, less satisfying. Youngsters who were in diapers when DeMille was at the peak of his power may sit spellbound before Cleopatra but oldsters...
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