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These artists -- some immigrants, some visitors -- contribute new chapters to the saga that began in the penny arcades. It is a story of gangsters and heiresses, in penthouses or on the prairie, filtered through the first industrial art form, the dream machine. The dream is America; the machine is the movies. With the help of its immigrant artists and entrepreneurs, the industry still beckons as it did to Chaplin, Goldwyn and their earliest audiences. Welcome, children of all nations, to the New World of the movies. Welcome to America.