[Rarebooks] FS: Best Moving Pictures of 1922, with Who's Who in the Movies

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Sherwood, Robert E.  "THE BEST MOVING PICTURES OF 1922-23.  Also Who's Who
in the Movies and Yearbook of the American Screen"

Boston; Small, Maynard & Company: 1923.

"My experience in following miles of film across the screen has bred in me
a deep respect for the movies, and an abiding faith in their
possibilities... The movies belong to the masses and not to the few.  For
which reason, the short-sighted intelligensia believe that the cinema is
vulgar, and vulgar in the worst sense.  According to their shaky logic the
Ninth Symphony is a marvelous composition until it is recorded on the
phonograph.  Unfortunately, this silly idea has become an obsession with
the movie producers themselves.  Realizing that they are enslaved by an
enormous public, they feel that they must climb down to the lowest level
that this public represents... A novel may be sold to no more than ten
thousand people and still be considered successful.  But a motion picture
must reach an audience that runs up into the hundreds of millions if it is
to cover the staggering expenses of production.  The producers, naturally
enough, are awed by these impressive figures, and frightened by them. 
Their efficiency experts tell them that sixty percent of their patrons are
morons, that they can't grasp anything that is over the heads of a
fourteen year old child.  So the producers set up this mythical
fourteen-year old mentality as their god, and do obeisance at its shrine".

Hardcover.  5.5"x7.5", 346 pages, b/w plates, including a frontispiece
showing Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood".  Light wear, but a nice copy. 
[02600]  $60.00, net, ppd.

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