Word: script
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve reels of film, together with a modern projecting machine, with full operating instructions, will be sealed in a steel vault, specially constructed to preserve the film and machine in perfect working order, and with these will be deposited a copy of the working script of the picture and a few copies of the best books on motion picture production and practice. The reason for the projection machine is that in the 185 years to elapse between 1924 and 2109 tremendous changes will take place in motion picture production and exhibition and the donors of the Lincoln picture will take...
William McFee was born in London. Most of his life he has spent in ships as a seagoing engineer. He has shown me the engine-room of a fruit vessel with as much pride as the script of a new novel. His stateroom, however, was always filled with a store of books, books piled here and there, until there was scarcely a place to sit, and McFee in the midst of them, spinning a yarn to the captain, explaining with pride to his visitors the glories of the ship...
...will be a privilege to show some of these attractive books: "The Prisoner of Chillon", printed in illumined script on hand made paper and bound in full French levant with gold tooling. The Ricardi Press "Rupert Brooke", bound in 3-4 French levant and printed on hand made paper; Shelley's "Lyrical Poems", beautifully printed and sumptuously bound; these and many others will delight the eye of the book lover and connoisseur...
...They knew well," says Professor Reisner, "the use of writing from the cumbersome Egyptian hieroglyphics which they had inherited along with the official Egyptian language, and they must have had hints of alphabetic writing from the use of Greek in Ptolemaic Egypt and the use of the Southern Arabic script of Abyssinia. But they made a script of their own,--unique in the form of the letters, adapted only to the writing of their own peculiar language. The cursive was invented first for the practical purposes of daily life and caused an immediate decline in the knowledge of Egyptian...
Professor Reisner, in finding an Ethiopian script not before known to have existed, and in discovering such facts as that the Ethiopian rulers were all men contrary to the current beliefs has made himself an authority who must be consulted by all students of ancient African history. Tea-table tete-a-tetes may gossip of the Valley of the Kings, but scholars in universities from Heidelberg to California will speak with gratitude of the work in Ethiopia...