Excerpt from The Photodrama
As one of the pioneers in the most wonderful art-science of the age - the motion picture industry - the writer feels doubly qualified perhaps to throw some light upon a subject equally interesting to author and producer.
A few years ago to the uninitiated "moving pictures" spelt little more than pantomime, buffoonery or sensational catch-penny device. To-day, there are few who maintain this view, and they are the unenlightened; for to the vast majority of those familiar with the art and interested in its progress, the word has become symbolic of things important and far-reaching.
Literature is literally the basic foundation upon which the already gigantic edifice of picturedom has risen.
Ten or twelve years ago picture manuscripts were unknown - office boys, clerks, camera operators, any one with an "idea" furnished the material from which motion pictures were produced.
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