It is claimed that the producers in America disliked these topical pictures because the accidental character of the events makes the production irregular and interferes too much with the steady preparation of the photoplays.

Only when the war broke out, the great wave of excitement swept away this apathy.

The pictures from the trenches, the marches of the troops, the life of the prisoners, the movements of the leaders, the busy life behind the front, and the action of the big guns absorbed the popular interest in every corner of the world.

While the picturesque old-time war reporter has almost disappeared, the moving picture man has inherited all his courage, patience, sensationalism, and spirit of adventure.
A greater photographic achievement, however, than the picturing of the social and historic events was the marvelous success of the kinematograph with the life of nature.

No explorer in recent years has crossed distant lands and seas without a kinematographic outfit.