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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ppeared and disappeared in cloudsof smoke and color and audiences sat open-mouthed in wonder at these spec-tacles. This type of film today is produced only for children, but the art ofillusion forms a most important part in the field of imitation and reproduction aswell as being used with the double negative. As audiences tired of these earlypictures, no avenue was open to the producers except to develop what they had.At this juncture the great cowboy and Indian plots came forward; it wasindeed a great advance for the film, taking it to the open stage of nature whereit truly belonged and with earth, sky, water and fire forming the great sets, im-possible to reproduce, the picture found its finest quality, pictorial composition.Today the large studio plants of the country are working for achievementswhich years of experience have taught the public will recognize and appreciate,thereby giving a prestige to the producer such as is sought by ariists, artisans 68 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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A VILLAGE IN SCOTLAND, SET BY GOLDWYN PRODUCING CORPORATION and commercial establishments the world over. The modern picture combinesthe action that is paramount, the illusion of artificial reproduction that deceivesyet does not excite and the pictorial composition of setting, and with individualsor groups moving about telling a story the eye of the audience is carriedthrough tenements and palaces, mountains and plains, living the life of theworlds peoples and their habits. The motion picture is truly an art. It requiresgood music to accompany it as does the dance, and in its best productions ityields aesthetic enjoyment, satisfying at nominal charges thousands of peoplewho can visit its screens. The architect will find in the motion picture a vast field of architecturalreproduction or imitation partly removed from scenic art, )^et not the art of the

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