These conflicts, tragic or comic, demand a similar development and solution on the stage and on the screen.

A mere showing of human activity without will conflict might give very pleasant moving pictures of idyllic or romantic character or perhaps of practical interest.

The result would be a kind of lyric or epic poem on the screen, or a travelogue or what not, but it would never shape itself into a photoplay as long as that conflict of human interests which the drama demands was lacking.

Yet, as this conflict of will is expressed in the one case by living speaking men, in the other by moving pictures, the difference in the artistic conception must surely be as great as the similarity.

Hence one of the supreme demands must be for an original literature of real power and significance, in which every thought is generated by the idea of the screen.