But in order to be real photoplays the stage dramas must be overhauled indeed, turned inside out and upside down.

The successful motion picture expresses itself through mechanical devices that are being evolved every hour.

Upon those many new bits of machinery are founded novel methods of combination in another field of logic, not dramatic logic, but tableau logic.

But the old-line managers, taking up photoplays, begin by making curious miniatures of stage presentations.
They try to have most things as before.

Later they take on the moving picture technique in a superficial way, but they, and the host of talented actors in the prime of life and Broadway success, retain the dramatic state of mind.
It is a principle of criticism, the world over, that the distinctions between the arts must be clearly marked, even by those who afterwards mix those arts.