It is only in the hands of the prophetic photo-playwright and allied artists that the kinetoscope reels become as mysterious and dazzling to the thinking spirit as the wheels of Ezekiel in the first chapter of his prophecy.

One can climb into the operator's box and watch the sword-like stream of light till he is as dazzled in flesh and spirit as the moth that burns its wings in the lamp.

But this is while a glittering vision and not a mere invention is being thrown upon the screen.
The scientific man can explain away the vision as a matter of the technique of double exposure, double printing, trick-turning, or stopping down.

And having reduced it to terms and shown the process, he expects us to become secular and casual again.

But of course the sun itself is a mere trick of heat and light, a dynamo, an incandescent globe, to the man in the laboratory.