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Excerpt from The Art of the Photoplay The marvelous growth of motion picture drama during the last ten years has reached the point where more than seven million Americans attend the exhibitions daily. The interest on the Continent is even more marked. It is conservatively estimated that not less than ten thousand plays are produced yearly in the United States. This means that there is a constantly increasing demand for the scripts from which the plays are to be produced. In the early days of the photoplay profession the directors adapted their own ideas and crude indeed many of them were. The field of melodrama and slapstick comedies of familiar and ancient vintage soon became exhausted. The result was that the companies were compelled to reach out for original scenarios from fresher sources than the minds of the over-worked producers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.