The kinematographic theater soon had its Shakespeare repertoire; Ibsen has been played and the dramatized novels on the screen became legion.

Victor Hugo and Dickens scored new triumphs.

In a few years the way from the silly trite practical joke to Hamlet and Peer Gynt was covered with such thoroughness that the possibility of giving a photographic rendering of any thinkable theater performance was proven for all time.
But while this movement to reproduce stage performances went on, elements were superadded which the technique of the camera allowed but which would hardly be possible in a theater.

Hence the development led slowly to a certain deviation from the path of the drama.

The difference which strikes the observer first results from the chance of the camera man to set his scene in the real backgrounds of nature and culture.