Being thus dependent, the plant can best be set up where there is no winter.

Besides this, the Los Angeles region has the sea, the mountains, the desert, and many kinds of grove and field.
Landscape and architecture are sub-tropical.

But for a description of California, ask any traveller or study the background of almost any photoplay.
If the photoplay is the consistent utterance of its scenes, if the actors are incarnations of the land they walk upon, as they should be, California indeed stands a chance to achieve through the films an utterance of her own.

Will this land furthest west be the first to capture the inner spirit of this newest and most curious of the arts?
It certainly has the opportunity that comes with the actors, producers, and equipment.

Let us hope that every region will develop the silent photographic pageant in a local form as outlined in the chapter on Progress and Endowment.