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Bakshy, Alexander | February 20, 1929 issue

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It is a sad reflection on the limitations of intellectuals and artists all over the world to see history repeat itself in the contemptuous resentment with which they are greeting the arrival of the talking picture. Just as twenty years ago when the silent movies began to stir the world, so today the patrons of art and the theater refuse to see in the talking picture anything but another vulgar product of our machine civilization. But so, too, does history repeat itself in the eagerness of the commercially minded not to miss their share in the windfall of the talking picture, however little they may understand the problems which arise from the use of the new medium, or be able to see where to look for their solution.

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MOTION pictures; PERFORMING arts; THEATERS; CIVILIZATION; CULTURE; MASS media
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