English: Still from the American comedy drama film Anne of Green Gables (1919) with Mary Miles Minter, Marcia Harris, and Frederick Burton, on page 10 of the April 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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One would be inclinedto credit that statement more fully if people didnt soconfidently advance as their own the opinions gleanedfrom the editorial columns of their favorite papers fif-teen minutes after reading them. It is a fact, however,that fewer people read editori-als than was the case be-fore the headline scanning habit fastened its curse uponthem. The headline devotee is impatient of anythingthat detains his eyes longer than a wink or two. The screen editorial is new but it promises to coaxmany of these headline readers away from their badhabit in a way they can not resist. For every one ofHerbert Kaufmans short, sledge-hammer editorials willbe followed by a feature reel illustrating it. The au-diences, says Mr. Selznick, will not, for they can not,skip over it in the manner of the average reader of news-paper editorials. Its value lies in the fact that its truthsare put over in action following up the printed word,and above all, it entertains. 10 MOVING PICTURE AGE April, 1920
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o Oi a, i (O ^^ IPR -7 !920>CI,B457833 MOVING PICTURE AGE REEL AND SLIDEEDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL VOL. Ill APRIL, 1920 No. 4 This Screen Story Is for All the Children, Young and Old It Brings Back the World of Make-Believe That Has Helped to Happy Hours soMany Children Considered by the Grown-Ups as a Trial to Their Patience I of By the Editor of Moving Picture Age N its introductorj production of Anne of Green Gables theRealart Pictures Corporation did something that should arrestthe attention of and serve as a guide to many producers whoare striving to get human nature into their stories. For AnneGreen Gables strikes a note to which every heart vi-brates in response, the youngerones in laughter and the olderones with a sigh for the van-ished days of make-believe.For what one of us, now grayand sedate in a hard and prac-:ical world of high-pricedbread and hard-earned butter,has not as a child walked apartin a dream of gallant knightsand fair ladies and impossibleachievements and brou

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