[HN Gopher] Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Mot...
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       Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-07-03 23:17 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | unraveller wrote:
       | >should [talking moving color pictures ever work] our descendants
       | will be able to deceive themselves into something very like
       | [reminiscence/time travel]: but it will be but a barren husk: a
       | soulless phantasm and nothing more.
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       | No wonder they didn't choose him as the father of film, he went
       | all in on experiencing real life instead. Funny how these days a
       | refined film must maintain illusion and suspend disbelief to be
       | called soulful and people will rewatch them until they can
       | remember every line.
        
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