Incidentally the cast is to be congratulated on its picturesque acting, especially Miss Barriscale in her impersonation of the Rose.
It is harder to grasp the other side of the paradox, picture-motions considered as _time measured without sound_.

But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.

Think of a noiseless electric vehicle, where you are looking out of the windows, going down the smooth boulevard of Wonderland.

Consider a film with three simple time-elements: (1) that of the pursuer, (2) the pursued, (3) the observation vehicle of the camera following the road and watching both of them, now faster, now slower than they, as the photographer overtakes the actors or allows them to hurry ahead.

The plain chase is a bore because there are only these three time-elements.
But the chase principle survives in every motion picture and we simply need more of this sort of time measurement, better considered.