The talkies are the only art that would attract Leonardo da Vinci were he alive today. This art is a baby giant, as clumsy as all babies are... we don't know what the baby will be doing and saying when it grows up. But we are sure it will make its mark in the world.
Martson, Pitkin, The Art of Sound Pictures (1929), p. vi; Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), p. 140.