Fil-um vs Movies

[Peter Trachtenberg]

	Until the advent of Andre Bazin and co., I very much doubt that 
anyone made a distinction between "film" and "movies," or, as insiders 
would have said, "pictures." And it's arguable that the very distinction 
was one of the hairline cracks that eventually widened enough to lead to 
the downfall of the American cinema. (That, and $40 million budgets and 
the invention of the Avid editing system, natch). But call me an old 
crank who's erupting from months of terminal silence long enough to put 
in his two cents.

toxic shakti
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