Charlie Chaplin has intimate and painter's qualities in his acting, and he makes himself into a painting or an etching in the midst of furious slapstick.

But he has been in no films that were themselves paintings.

The argument of this chapter has been carried much further in Freeburg's book, The Art of Photoplay Making.
Chapter X--Furniture, Trappings, and Inventions in Motion, being a continuation of the chapter on Fairy Splendor.

In this field we find one of the worst failures of the commercial films, and their utterly unimaginative corporation promoters.

Again I must refer them to such fairy books as those of Padraic Colum, where neither sword nor wing nor boat is found to move, except for a fairy reason.
I have just returned this very afternoon from a special showing of the famous imported film, The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari.Some of the earnest spirits of the Denver Art Association, finding it was in storage in the town, had it privately brought forth to study it with reference to its bearing on their new policies.