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Looking for memorable lines

posted 16 years ago by HilcoKlinkert
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Hello readers,

For me the best scene was not the climax of making the first-ever film on a bedsheet and showing it to 'Cop 94B' (although it is a great scene too).

I'm looking for the fantastic reply Friese-Greene made to his business partner in the basement laboratory. Arthur Collings has had about enough with his 'mad inventor' approach.

FG's reply was along the lines of 'You are nothing but a businessman who despises inventors, but without those you wouldn't have any business!'. Or something like that. Anybody who can quote this text?

By the way, does anyone else thing the name Friese-Greene sounds a bit like Free Screen?

[–] psdhart 8 years ago

FG's reply was along the lines of 'You are nothing but a businessman who despises inventors, but without those you wouldn't have any business!'. Or something like that. Anybody who can quote this text?

"Anything you don't understand is a crackpot experiment.
But remember this, if it weren't for the crackpot experiments and the people who make them, most of you businessmen would not exist at all, except as marketplace peddlers"