Michael McKean: Narrator
Quotes
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Narrator : From the start, American films seduced audiences around the world with their visual panache. They drew on America's rambunctious spirit and its notion that there'd always be a new frontier.
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Narrator : The machine age had already brought us the electric light, the automobile, and the drinking straw. Then, inventors in America and Europe came up with the most captivating machine yet: the movie camera. Or, was it a machine at all? The great American director Sam Peckinpah said, "You're not going to tell me the camera is a machine. It is the most marvelous piece of divinity ever created.
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Narrator : They called themselves cameramen and they were a fraternity of light. Through their eyes the world opened up to us. They brought us closer to the face of drama.
