Questia - Movie

[Kathleen E. Miller]

At 12:27 PM 7/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>What is the earliest on Questia for "real McCoy" and "movie"?


Geez, gratuitous love stories have been a problem way before Titanic and
Pearl Harbor!!!

The Lost World
Book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Review of Reviews Co., 1912, pg. 2.
(But this can't be right. Doyle surely wrote The Lost World in 1912, but
the movie was 1925. This must be a misdated later edition. The hit comes on
the first page as a review of the movie, followed by the book itself).

"But the producer had to put in an unnecessary heroine and the flattest of
love stories. Are movie spectators as insistent on these sentimental
invasions as the producers seem to think? The men who made this picture
were convinced that the full horror of the approach of the gigantic
prehistoric beasts could only be conveyed by showing, over and again,
close-ups of the frightened face of Miss Bessie Love. She looked just as
scared as she would have looked if a mouse had been drawing near."


The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-On-Avon: A Fantasy
Book by W. D. Howells; Harper & Brothers, 1914, p. 93


"Swept by the board, all gone, before the devastating film. I was down in
Venice, last night, at the little theater where you used to see them, and
they were doing a Wild West movie piece just such as you saw to-day; and
it's the same everywhere in Italy."

Kathleen E. Miller
Research Assistant to William Safire
The New York Times