"… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles."
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describing cinema, Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 58
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Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.
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