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"The trouble with movies today is that the supply of the kind of pictures intelligent people want is dwindling," claimed Gilbert Seldes '14 yesterday. The author of The Seven Lively Arts said that "what we are getting instead is the 'blockbuster'--the enormous, vast, wasteful spectacle."
He observed that the modern trend toward extravaganzas was the third corrupting tendency the movies have gone through, and named the introductions of sound and of color as the first two.
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