_All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission except in the case of brief quotations included in reviews._ Ask almost anyone about the origins of the motion picture, and you’ll get a glib and automatic answer. It will include a fast, indefinite reference to Edison and Eastman and will move on, with more-or-less authentic nostalgia, to Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, D. W. Griffith and maybe a few others. With luck, one or two titles--The Great Train Robbery, for example--may creep in.…
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