The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928A compilation of hundreds of Sandburg's writings on film during the silent era for the Chicago Daily News, showing how this great American writer was an early champion of movies and their possibilities, and, thus, set the stage for future film criticism. |
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