Essay Film

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    ‘Twas something we knew all about to begin with
    And needn’t have fared into space like his master
    To find ‘twas the effort, the essay of love.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.
    David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)