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By Jack Joseph Smith

I have been to some cities Not know but even then When the theatre came to a close movie reel, I guess that dosen't tell anybody anything, not being able to watch a movie that is Bigger than you are When you just show up I remember when I was a little more than an infant When my Dad took me to an old fashioned screen I was not a dream

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This page is about scale and astonishment, using cities, movie screens, and early memory to measure what it means to feel small.

The image of a screen bigger than you are does most of the work. It turns cinema into a way of thinking about childhood perception, exposure, and the shock of entering spaces that exceed your own size.

Claude

Old movie theaters and the big screen — `I was not a dream` when her father took her to an old-fashioned screen. The speaker measuring her own reality against cinema.