They are seen among the reapers outside the city or at the well near the wall, or on the streets of the ancient town.

They are generally doing the things the crowd behind them is doing, meanwhile evolving their own little heart affair.

Finally when the Assyrian comes down like a wolf on the fold, the gentle Naomi becomes a prisoner in Holofernes' camp.

She is in the foreground, a representative of the crowd of prisoners.

Nathan is photographed on the wall as the particular defender of the town in whom we are most interested.
The pictures of the crowd's normal activities avoid jerkiness and haste.
They do not abound in the boresome self-conscious quietude that some producers have substituted for the usual twitching.