Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter at Valley Forge are gone for all time; but every great event taking place now or hereafter will be preserved for succeeding generations exactly as it happened. Great masterpieces of literature, coming upon the screen are securing for themselves a clientele which the printed word has never given them. In our own neighborhoods at a trifling expense any of us may be carried to polar or equatorial regions where only explorers heretofore have penetrated. The humblest backwoodsman whose vision might otherwise not have gone beyond his country...
...must be judged not by our prophecies or promises, but by our performances and our deliveries. It seems to me that the new productions now reaching the screen--some of which have been a year or more in the making--do show the results of what we have been trying to do. Not every picture will be flawless: not every one will please everybody, but the proportion of high grade pictures is definitely increasing: it will increase still more rapidly as the public awakens, as it is awakening, to the necessity of giving definite, affirmative, constructive support to those productions...
...before the glare of motion-pictures has seemed at times probable. Thousands of smaller American communities once used to boast some sort of true stage--if it were only for an occasional appearance of little Eva and two cocker-spaniel blood-hounds -- where now a "Palace" of the "Silver Screen" throws its bright lights upon Main Street. And the advent of life like color into the "movies" is already tending to make their hold the more secure. But even the best created picture, as long as it cannot reproduce the human voice, must fall short of the highest dramatic...
Relays of over 300 men are necessary to transport the baggage and equipment on his lengthy trips, numerous pictures of which will be shown. In addition to the photographs of wild animals, which will constitute the greater part of his films, he will have thrown upon the screen numerous views of the famous Victoria Falls and other points of scenic beauty...
...During the Great War he fought against the German colonies in that continent. Since the showing of 8000 feet of moving picture film will consume all of his time, Colonel Eustace will not deliver a formal lecture, but will instead explain his films as they are thrown upon the screen. These moving pictures are the only ones that have ever been taken of wild animals that were not wounded, drugged, or in captivity. In making, these photographs no beaters were employed to drive the beasts up to the camera...