When it is a poor thing, which is the case too often, the St.Vitus dance destroys the pleasure-value.

The rhythmic quality of the picture-motions is twitched to death.

In the bad photoplay even the picture of an express train more than exaggerates itself.

Yet when the photoplay chooses to behave it can reproduce a race far more joyously than the stage.

On that fact is based the opportunity of this form.