One of the sculpturesque resources of the photoplay is that the human countenance can be magnified many times, till it fills the entire screen.

Some examples are in rather low relief, portraits approximating certain painters.

But if they are on sculptural terms, and are studies of the faces of thinking men, let the producer make a pilgrimage to Washington for his precedent.

There, in the rotunda of the capitol, is the face of Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum.

It is one of the eminently successful attempts to get at the secret of the countenance by enlarging it much, and concentrating the whole consideration there.
The photoplay producer, seemingly without taking thought, is apt to show a sculptural sense in giving us Newfoundland fishermen, clad in oilskins.
The background may have an unconscious Winslow Homer reminiscence.