We became aware that the unique task of the photoplay art can be fulfilled only by a far-reaching disregard of reality.

The real human persons and the real landscapes must be left behind and, as we saw, must be transformed into pictorial suggestions only.

We must be strongly conscious of their pictorial unreality in order that that wonderful play of our inner experiences may be realized on the screen.
This consciousness of unreality must seriously suffer from the addition of color.

We are once more brought too near to the world which really surrounds us with the richness of its colors, and the more we approach it the less we gain that inner freedom, that victory of the mind over nature, which remains the ideal of the photoplay.

The colors are almost as detrimental as the voices.
On the other hand the producer must be careful to keep sufficiently in contact with reality, as otherwise the emotional interests upon which the whole play depends would be destroyed.