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Thank Aristotle for Summer Movies

Roll 'em!

Are today's summer blockbusters not tempting you into the theater? Then take a trip with us back into movie history. We don't mean recent history, or even the days when William Faulkner created screenplays from novels by Ernest Hemingway for directors like Howard Hawks. We mean the days when the technology of movies was just a gleam in Aristotle's eye. We mean how "motion pictures" came to be.

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