The people left in the scene are pygmies compared with each disappearing cyclops.
Likewise, when the actor enters again, his mechanical importance is overwhelming.

Therefore, for his first entrance the motion picture star does not require the preparations that are made on the stage.

The support does not need to warm the spectators to the problem, then talk them into surrender.
When the veteran stage-producer as a beginning photoplay producer tries to give us a dialogue in the motion pictures, he makes it so dull no one follows.

He does not realize that his camera-born opportunity to magnify persons and things instantly, to interweave them as actors on one level, to alternate scenes at the slightest whim, are the big substitutes for dialogue.

By alternating scenes rapidly, flash after flash: cottage, field, mountain-top, field, mountain-top, cottage, we have a conversation between three places rather than three persons.