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==Retrospective appraisal== Charles Silver, curator at the [[Museum of Modern Art]]'s Department of Film, offers this assessment of ''Morocco'': {{blockquote|"Sternberg was the first director to attain full mastery and control over what was essentially a new medium by restoring the fluidity and beauty of the late silent period. One of the key elements in this was his understanding of the value of silence itself. ''Morocco'' contains long sections sustained only by its stunning visual beauty, augmented with appropriate music and aural effects. Sternberg was the first artist to make an authentic virtue of the arrival of sound.<ref name="moma"/>{{sfn|Weinberg|1967|loc=pp. 56β57: Morocco "effaced the last vestiges of the demarcation between the silent and the sound film ..."}}}}
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