On the right is a reminiscence by a Mr. Homer Dunne recalling the sensation he experienced when he first attended a moving photograph show during the closing days of the Nineteenth Century. He describes well the appearance of the rented shop-front, the smarmy ticket-taker, the not-terribly impressed audience and has a laugh on himself for failing to understand the significance of the medium.

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