The photopoet must turn to life itself and must remodel life in the artistic forms which are characteristic of his particular art.

If he has truly grasped the fundamental meaning of the screen world, his imagination will guide him more safely than his reminiscences of dramas which he has seen on the stage and of novels which he has read.
If we turn to a few special demands which are contained in such a general postulate for a new artistic method, we naturally think at once of the role of words.

The drama and novel live by words.

How much of this noblest vehicle of thought can the photoplay conserve in its domain?
We all know what a large part of the photoplay today is told us by the medium of words and phrases.

How little would we know what those people are talking about if we saw them only acting and had not beforehand the information which the "leader" supplies.