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 | | Constantly challenged by advances in technology, film artists devised the dramatic feature and perfected slapstick comedy in the teens, integrated the techniques and concerns of painters, musicians, and novelists in the twenties, and reveled in dialogue in the thirties, as they took on much of the artistic responsibility of modern drama. |
| | For the first seventy-five years of film history, the medium was characterized by constant and repeated waves of innovation, as filmmakers in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere excitedly explored the new art, testing its limits and expanding its horizons. |
| | As digital techniques are perfected, movies become individual experiences on personal screens, as easily manipulated as books, and increasingly integrated with text in a new medium called rather unimaginatively multimedia. Of course, film itself was the first multimedium, combining most of the techniques (and all of the concerns) of previous media. |
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