Suppose the seated majesty of Moses should rise, what would be the quality of the action?
Suppose the sleeping figures of the Medician tombs should wake, or those famous slaves should break their bands, or David again hurl the stone.

Would not their action be as heroic as their quietness?
Is it not possible to have a Michelangelo of photoplay sculpture?
Should we not look for him in the fulness of time?
His figures might come to us in the skins of the desert island solitary, or as cave men and women, or as mermaids and mermen, and yet have a force and grandeur akin to that of the old Italian.
Rodin's famous group of the citizens of Calais is an example of the expression of one particular idea by a special technical treatment.

The producer who tells a kindred story to that of the siege of Calais, and the final going of these humble men to their doom, will have a hero-tale indeed.

It will be not only sculpture-in-action, but a great Crowd Picture.

It begins to be seen that the possibilities of monumental achievement in the films transcend the narrow boundaries of the Action Photoplay.