This gives a 3D element to their work. The cliff bank in Algie is one of the best staged scenes in the film, with the good guys below and the bad guys sneaking up on them at the top of the bank. One can see other common elements between Guy's and Feuillade's films. Children are strong, independent and not easily intimidated characters. They seem extremely intelligent and alert, always ready to intervene in grown-up's affairs with surprising effectiveness.
Heroes have strong family lives, and often live with a parcel of relatives and spouses.
These are all sympathetic characters. These are not loner heroes, like so much of the later and current cinema. Guy employs a great deal of panning within a scene. The camera is often not stable, but is being slowly re-directed here and there, to look at different elements of a scene. This means that Guy is often not deeply interested in composition.