But the Patriotic Motion Picture is generally a landscape.

This is for deeper reasons than that it requires large fields in which to manoeuvre armies.

Flags are shown for other causes than that they are the nominal signs of a love of the native land.
In a comedy of the history of a newspaper, the very columns of the publication are actors, and may be photographed oftener than the human hero.

And in the higher realms this same tendency gives particular power to the panorama and trappings.

It makes the natural and artificial magnificence more than a narrative, more than a color-scheme, something other than a drama.