The process which leads from the living men to the screen is more complex than a mere reflection in a mirror, but in spite of the complexity in the transmission we do, after all, see the real actor in the picture.

The photograph is absolutely different from those pictures which a clever draughtsman has sketched.

In the photoplay we see the actors themselves and the decisive factor which makes the impression different from seeing real men is not that we see the living persons through the medium of photographic reproduction but that this reproduction shows them in a flat form.

The bodily space has been eliminated.

We said once before that stereoscopic arrangements could reproduce somewhat this plastic form also.