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English: Still from the American film Huckleberry Finn (1920) with Tom Bates (1864 – 1930), Orrall Humphrey, Lewis Sargent, and George H. Reed, on page 10 of the May 1920 Moving Picture Age.

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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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ny persons whohave no working experience with projection. Compar-atively few projection machines are very expensive oruse a large current which is likely to set fire to the film.None of them, so far as known, is under the ban ofthe insurance interests; the use of the booth is requiredonly in certain specified conditions and in many placesnot at all with approved machines, and their restrictionto the auditorium is optional with the user. Careful investigation should be made by personswhose position gives authority to their written orspoken words before they launch into criticism of prac-tical working conditions or repeat hearsay testimonyregarding them. The moving picture has been its ownbest witness as to its possibilities. The camera and theprojector, by the practical work they have done and aredoing, have blunted adverse criticism. There seems nogood reason, save lack of real knowledge, why any per-son should make misleading statements concerningthem. 10 MOVING PICTURE AGE May, 1920
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f-1 ^ v t;;;^ X. Sv ij ^ ^ ti : ^ s^ to H^ -Ki H-, k ?^ ^ C:5 li. •^ MAY -3 1920 ©C1,B459497 MOVING PICTURE AGE REEL AND SLIDEEDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL VOL. Ill MAY, 1920 No. 5 Dream of American Boyhood Lives in This Screen Story Persons Attempting to Find a Motive Will Be Prosecuted; Persons Attempting to Find aMoral Will Be Banished; Persons Attempting to Find a Plot Will Be Shot.—Mark Twain By the Editor of Moving Picture Age THE picture play of Huckleberry Finn is a dream. Theman with the boys heart still alive within him watches thefilm unfold with dreaming eyes and finds it all too short.The boy with the mans heart stirring in his breast squirmson the edge of his seat and laughs and cries as his dreams of raftsand rippling rivers and cabins and robbers caves flash before him.The good Mark Twain did is not buried with him nor in his books.While this is being written it is flowing out from the screen to BV^v* ^l^^l^^^^ilB tPI^^^^^^^^^H Wk jff^^^fl tii V

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