The exact tone value of each one and their precise nearness or distance to one another have a deal to do with the final effect.
We go to the photoplay to enjoy right and splendid picture-motions, to feel a certain thrill when the pieces of kaleidoscope glass slide into new places.

Instead of moving on straight lines, as they do in the mechanical toy, they progress in strange curves that are part of the very shapes into which they fall.
Consider: first came the photograph.

Then motion was added to the photograph.

We must use this order in our judgment.

If it is ever to evolve into a national art, it must first be good picture, then good motion.
Belasco's attitude toward the stage has been denounced by the purists because he makes settings too large a portion of his story-telling, and transforms his theatre into the paradise of the property-man.