They are, by comparison, mere bits of pasteboard with sweet voices, while, on the other hand, the photoplay foreground is full of dumb giants.

The bodies of these giants are in high sculptural relief.

Where the lights are quite glaring and the photography is bad, many of the figures are as hard in their impact on the eye as lime-white plaster-casts, no matter what the clothing.

There are several passages of this sort in the otherwise beautiful Enoch Arden, where the shipwrecked sailor is depicted on his desert island in the glaring sun.
What materials should the photoplay figures suggest?
There are as many possible materials as there are subjects for pictures and tone schemes to be considered.

But we will take for illustration wood, bronze, and marble, since they have been used in the old sculptural art.
There is found in most art shows a type of carved wood gargoyle where the work and the subject are at one, not only in the color of the wood, but in the way the material masses itself, in bulk betrays its qualities.