They even claimed that in the lawsuit, that IA damaged their sales even though, exactly as you say, they had record sales in 2020 due to the lockdowns.
Same happened to me today. I circumvented it with inspect element, just pasting the text there directly.
Here's one example of an original musician from the silents' era, playing some fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lwsA0n8OBY
The overall sound was like that, but of course different pianists had different styles and repertoires of typical melodies that they'd improvise with.
Some more ambitious feature length films would employ ensembles or an entire orchestra, which is what Griffith did first for the Birth of a Nation. Of course in that case the music had to be written in advance, though I'm not sure how much of it has been preserved over the decades.
Keep moving those goalposts, daddy. 🥵 First you claim marxist literature is never purchased by the libraries, which could be easily disproved just by clicking the link I gave you. Then you imply they don't stock enough, even though according to the catalogue, as I've already said, they "hold 168 book by or about Karl Marx", including multiple copies of the same book (the abovementioned CotGP has 4 copies, an abridged edition of Capital has 49 copies, etc., not even getting into counting the marxist literature not written by Marx).
But it appears you expect the American public library system to lead the communist revolution, so discussing even banal data such as how many books are stocked by a library is probably pointless.
mysteriously never purchased
The catalogue I linked literally shows they have a 2023 edition of "Critique of the Gotha Program", in the very first row of the results.
Realistically, there are no banned books today, outside of stuff like Turner Diaries and Mein Kampf and terrorist guides. And even those (outside of terrorist guides) are usually just semi-banned, i.e. Amazon and most reasonable booksellers and libraries won't stock them, but you can buy them by other means and it's probably not illegal.
So I have no idea what's your point here. The "liberals" who promote reading "banned books" refer to stuff like small school libraries not stocking whatever the American media and Twitter decided to wreak hysteria about this season.
Either way, in reality New York Public Library holds 168 book by or about Karl Marx.
Then I realized it was pre audio
Probably it was screened with largely improvised live music (piano), so this isn't quite the original experience. There's a version with some music on archive.org linked in this thread. Watching the silents without any audio feels weird, "empty", and the original audiences must've felt the same.
And yeah, early films were a bit similar to circus attractions, so the comparison is pretty good. They wanted to show something visually striking, so e.g. they filmed many variants of "serpentine dances", or fights between a chimney sweeper covered in coal and miller covered in flour.
I linked the video on Wikimedia in OP. Here's the link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/La_Fantasmagorie_%281908%29.webm
If Marxism is looking to dismantle the way contemporary society and its institutions, why would the institutions stock books on Marxism?
"You should DuckDuckGo it."
"I DuckDuckWent it."
"Have you DuckDuckGone it?"
That's not much of an excuse, if it's meant to be one. Google "personalised" the results by making them worse?
To je smeće trebalo biti odavno iskorijenjeno. Ovoliko ambrozije ima samo kod nas, doslovno, kako piše u uvodu:
Dok me je još redovito hvatala alergija uvijek mi je bilo zadivljujuće olakšanje otići na ljetovanje na otok, gdje se nije uhvatila ova gamad od biljke. Nadam se da će projekt uspjeti.