Memory breaks into present events by bringing up pictures of the past: the photoplay is doing this by its frequent cut-backs, when pictures of events long past flit between those of the present.

The imagination anticipates the future or overcomes reality by fancies and dreams; the photoplay is doing all this more richly than any chance imagination would succeed in doing.

But chiefly, through our division of interest our mind is drawn hither and thither.

We think of events which run parallel in different places.

The photoplay can show in intertwined scenes everything which our mind embraces.