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Edwin Stanton Porter

Three Americans created the art of the motion picture, and made it the universal language of the twentieth century

The older arts, all seven of them—architecture, dance, drama, literature, music, painting, and sculpture—had their origins in the Mediterranean basin several thousands of years ago.

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