Motion Picture Diaries
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History 2057
Section 22
March 7, 2004
Short Paper Assignment #2
23-1: Motion Picture Diaries:
This document reading that I chose to write my short paper assignment on is a collection of diary entries from three different young
people from three distinctly different backrounds. Yet, this primary source shows that there is one common link between the three of them and
that is their love of movies and the early motion pictures that seemed to captivate Americans from every walk of life. All three of these
individuals obviously have had their lives impacted by the movie industry to such a level that feel the need to write about it in their diaries where
their personal information is shared. But, in order to understand this we must look at our own lives and that pivotal moment when something new
and exciting entered our life and we just thought that whatever it was was greater than sliced bread. The only difference is that the people and
especially the young adults of this era were experiencing something unlike anyone had ever seen before and as a result it had enormous
impacts. Movie stars were born and their first fans appeared in the warm glow of the mid afternoon picture. People of this era worshipped their
movie stars. They dressed like them, walked like them, talked like them, started to smoke like they did; all attempts to imitate
their favorite star
in ultimate hopes of being like them one day. All three of these individuals have their story to tell about how they tried to live out part of a movie
they saw in their real lives, whether it was through a passionate kiss or a runaway with a forbidden