Yet they are accessory, while the primary power must lie in the content of the pictures themselves.
But it is evident that with the exception of the words, no means for drawing attention which is effective on the theater stage is lost in the photoplay.

All the directing influences which the movements of the actors exert can be felt no less when they are pictured in the films.
More than that, the absence of the words brings the movements which we see to still greater prominence in our mind.

Our whole attention can now be focused on the play of the face and of the hands.

Every gesture and every mimic excitement stirs us now much more than if it were only the accompaniment of speech.

Moreover, the technical conditions of the kinematograph show favor the importance of the movement.