We have spoken of them.

A certain effect is prepared by a chain of causes and yet when the causal result is to appear the film is cut off.

We have the causes without the effect.

The villain thrusts with his dagger--but a miracle has snatched away his victim.
_While the moving pictures are lifted above the world of space and time and causality and are freed from its bounds, they are certainly not without law._ We said before that the freedom with which the pictures replace one another is to a large degree comparable to the sparkling and streaming of the musical tones.

The yielding to the play of the mental energies, to the attention and emotion, which is felt in the film pictures, is still more complete in the musical melodies and harmonies in which the tones themselves are merely the expressions of the ideas and feelings and will impulses of the mind.