But just this additional expression of the feeling through the medium of the surrounding scene, through background and setting, through lines and forms and movements, is very much more at the disposal of the photoartist.

He alone can change the background and all the surroundings of the acting person from instant to instant.

He is not bound to one setting, he has no technical difficulty in altering the whole scene with every smile and every frown.

To be sure, the theater can give us changing sunshine and thunderclouds too.

But it must go on at the slow pace and with the clumsiness with which the events in nature pass.