How could the following sentence from “The Birth of the Movie” be revised in order to include a comparative or superlative adjective?

“Films were very short in the early 1900s, and there were no such things as movie stars.”

A.
“Films were shorter in the early 1900s than they are now, and there were no such things as movie stars.”

B.
“Films were shortest in the early 1900s than they are now, and there were no such things as movie stars.”

C.
“Films were very shorter in the early 1900s than they are now, and there were no such things as movie stars.”

D.
“Films were very shortest in the early 1900s than they are now, and there were no such things as movie stars.”

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?