Moving Picture News (1911) . eral merit, whfch combines all the qualities and qualificationsthat tend to make a film perfect, we have seen in our entireextensive and varied acquaintance with moving will not tell the story just at this very minute, becausewe would not like to spoil the effect when you ultimatelyview it. It is a work of genius, and the product of a prac-ticed hand. When the final flash came across the screen wesincerely regretted it, and we make this statement fully cog-nizant that opinions are often given in similar enthusiastic January 21, 1912, youll remember what
Moving Picture News (1911) . eral merit, whfch combines all the qualities and qualificationsthat tend to make a film perfect, we have seen in our entireextensive and varied acquaintance with moving will not tell the story just at this very minute, becausewe would not like to spoil the effect when you ultimatelyview it. It is a work of genius, and the product of a prac-ticed hand. When the final flash came across the screen wesincerely regretted it, and we make this statement fully cog-nizant that opinions are often given in similar enthusiastic January 21, 1912, youll remember what we say here! Andyoull agree! The Gem Motion Picture Company is a harbinger of betterfilm. It is an advance agent of the film millennium, when allwill be perfect and none less than that. It is a promiserealized, a desire attained, a hope fulfilled. We who havebeen looking for the morrow in filmdom, for the dawn thatwould usher in a new era in film manufacturing, realize itto-day and recognize it in Gem! And we welcome it all. terms without a genuine belief to that effect. _ We are notmerely in a hysterical ecstasy when we make this superlativecriticism, however. It is genuine, accurate, and we go on record now as stating that the product of theGem Motion Picture Company that we have already seen isas near to perfection as we can ever hope to get. the more because perfection was not expected so early. Look at the still pictures from the first four releases. Stillpictures—but theyre eloquent. They speak the message thatknow no contradiction, no refutation. They tell the tale ofwhich there is no doubting. They are the verdict in them-selves, and they are their own tribute. 26 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Gem is destined to become one of the bulwarks of the sentence, Sunday, January 21, 1912, the first Holiday of the Independents, and the Sales Company, in giving it a place New Year! on its program, evidences the earnest opinion the trade has What more can we say than agr
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