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The Motion Picture

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Posted on November 29, 2011 by rdwilkins
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“The motion picture offers incomparably the greatest field to any creative artist of brush or blueprint today. It is the art of the 20th century and perhaps the greatest art of modern times.”

Production Designer Joseph Urban, 1920

still from Treasure Island, 1920

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