The best of the old one-reel Biographs of Griffith contained more in twenty minutes than these ambitious incontinent six-reel displays give us in two hours.

It would pay a manager to hang out a sign: "This show is only twenty minutes long, but it is Griffith's great film 'The Battle.'" But I am digressing.

To continue the contrast between private passion in the theatre and crowd-passion in the photoplay, let us turn to Shaw again.

Consider his illustration of Iago, Othello, and Lear.

These parts, as he implies, would fall flat in motion pictures.