A picture should not be released till it is completely thought out.

A producer with this goal before him will not have the time or brains to spare to write music that is as closely and delicately related to the action as the action is to the background.

And unless the tunes are at one with the scheme they are an intrusion.

Perhaps the moving picture maker has a twin brother almost as able in music, who possesses the faculty of subordinating his creations to the work of his more brilliant coadjutor.

How are they going to make a practical national distribution of the accompaniment?
In the metropolitan theatres Cabiria carried its own musicians and programme with a rich if feverish result.
In The Birth of a Nation, music was used that approached imitative sound devices.