As soon as it is grasped that the film play is not simply a mechanical reproduction of another art but is an art of a special kind, it follows that talents of a special kind must be devoted to it and that nobody ought to feel it beneath his artistic dignity to write scenarios in the service of this new art.

No doubt the moving picture performances today still stand on a low artistic level.

Nine tenths of the plays are cheap melodramas or vulgar farces.

The question is not how much larger a percentage of really valuable dramas can be found in our theaters.

Many of their plays are just as much an appeal to the lowest instincts.