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Title: Moving Picture Age (1920)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: motion pictures
Publisher: Class Publications, inc.
Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

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who, though possessing a tender heart, is not averse toassassination when justice moves tardily its functionsto perform. Miss Pickford knows well her way among the shad-ows. She shifts an eyelash and pictures an emotion.A mere wiggle of her bare toes is an illuminating ges-ture. Her lips move upward and you smile; theydroop and you are sad. You root for her when she isin trouble and when she gets out of it you are happy.In the art of making faces she is great, and is to beclassed, no doubt, with Miss Laurette Taylor and MissEthel Barrymore, who are said to be the First Ac-tresses of this generation. One suspects that her su-premacy is due to her comeliness, her instinct for im-personation, her knowledge of the myriad tricks of thegame—all of them subordinate to the gorgeous itemof charm. Whether that alluring attribute wouldovercome the handicap of speech as it is written byAmerican dramatists is a question which, one hopes,Miss Pickford will not try to answer. 10 MOVING PICTURE AGE
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0)Cl.B452722JAN 10 1920 WMG PICIIM ME (REEL AND SLIDE MAGAZINE) VOL. Ill JANUARY, 1920 NO. 1 Screen Sermonette on the Nativity First of a New Series Story of the Saviors Birth Told in Moving Pictures in a Way That Shows Intelligent Apprecia-tion by Producers of Religious Requirements for Combined Instruction and Entertainment By the Editor of Moving Picture Age A SERMON is a discourse, but a sermonette is a movingpicture that tells the old, old story in a new way. Atleast that is the meaning of little sermon, as illustratedby Spanuths Sermonettes in the first of a series underthat general title to be produced by the Commonwealth PicturesCompany. Around the word, during a period of several weeksthought given to it, in rather loosely connected form there grewthe idea of a motion picture that would offer something of thecommonly accepted statement of Christianity and the higher life,coupled with an applica-tion of these doctrines tomodern conditions. Itwas desired, too, in thedevelopment

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