If he puts his autograph into the film, it is after a fierce struggle with the uncanny scientific quality of the camera's work.

His genius and that of the whole company of actors is exhausted in the task.
The raw phonograph is likewise unmagnetic.

Would you set upon the shoulders of the troupe of actors the additional responsibility of putting an adequate substitute for human magnetism in the phonographic disk?
The voice that does not actually bleed, that contains no heart-beats, fails to meet the emergency.

Few people have wept over a phonographic selection from Tristan and Isolde.

They are moved at the actual performance.