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“The time will come, and in less than ten years… when the children in the public schools will be taught practically everything by moving pictures. Certainly they will never be obliged to read history again. long rows of boxes. [...] (In a library) At each box a push button and before each box a seat. Suppose you wish to 'read up' on a certain episode in Napoleon's life. Instead of consulting all the authorities, wading laboriously through a host of books, you will merely press a button and see actually what happened.”

(D. W. Griffith, en un article de 1915 en la revista The Editor, reimprés en Richard Dyer MacCann (1997), The Silent Screen, Ed. Scarecrow, p. 16)