"No! Not in 1948! Not after the fabulous 50 years I've given you! You've been with me ever since you had to look through a box to see a minute of fat, middle aged people kissing! A moon with cheese dripping down it's face get a rocket in the eye! You've been through cowboys riding across the range, Valentino soaring over the sands and King Kong climbing up a skyscraper! Buildings collapse in 1906 San Francisco while blimps explode in mid air as a newsreel photographer films it! But because of a small box in your living room with a circular screen, you give up comfortable fluffy seats and fluffier popcorn for that uncomfortable old sofa. I've never felt so betrayed!"
So insinuates this one reel short subject which gives less information on the history of motion pictures than you'd find in an old encyclopedia Britannica. This is one of those shorts that if I saw for a second time, I'd slip out to the bathroom just to make sure. It's like those self congratulatory shorts at MGM where they showed 10 minutes of how certain products influenced film making then went into another 10 minutes of unofficial previews. By the late 1940's, TV was indeed a bit of a threat, but this is attempted sabotage of a not yet formed medium. Film could be better used elsewhere. Hardly even worth being seen as a brief introduction to movie history 101.
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