Introduction: motion pictures and modern communion -- Enlightened public opinion: post-reform progressivism, mental science, and Gerald Stanley Lee's "moving-pictures" -- "The occult elements of motion and light": Vachel Lindsay's utopia of the mirror screen -- "The motion picture is war's greatest antidote": rescue as release of force in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance -- "Everything wooed everything": the triumph of morale over moralism in Rupert Hughes's Souls for sale -- "Little grains of sand": positive thinking and corporate form in Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad -- Conclusion: universal history and the historicity of film entertainment.
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