>should [talking moving color pictures ever work] our descendants will be able to deceive themselves into something very like [reminiscence/time travel]: but it will be but a barren husk: a soulless phantasm and nothing more.

No wonder they didn't choose him as the father of film, he went all in on experiencing real life instead. Funny how these days a refined film must maintain illusion and suspend disbelief to be called soulful and people will rewatch them until they can remember every line.