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Tonight we're reading from a new work that I found completely by accident while Talbot, While Wandering Around Project Gutenberg.

Moving Pictures, How They Are Made and Worked

by Frederick A. Talbot.

Published in 1914 by J.B. Lipincott Company of Philadelphia

and William Heineman of London.

And before we get going, let me apologize right now for a nasally voice.

I'm still getting over COVID, which is a bit of a drag, but I thought we'd give it a go.

Let's begin.

Preface The Marvelous Universal Popularity of Movie The marvelous universal popularity of moving pictures is my reason for writing this volume.

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