Yet the majority of authors claim that the true field for the photoplay is the practical life which surrounds us, as no artistic means of literature or drama can render the details of life with such convincing sincerity and with such realistic power.

These are the slums, not seen through the spectacles of a litterateur or the fancy of an outsider but in their whole abhorrent nakedness.

These are the dark corners of the metropolis where crime is hidden and where vice is growing rankly.
They all are right; and at the same time they all are wrong when they praise one at the expense of another.

Realistic and idealistic, practical and romantic, historical and modern topics are fit material for the art of the photoplay.

Its world is as unlimited as that of literature, and the same is true of the style of treatment.