It is falsely advertised as having heart-interest. In the action picture there is no adequate means for the development of any full-grown personal passion. It can represent bronze elasticity, wave-beaten granite, living ebony and silver, the majesty of dancing, galloping or fighting figures. Intimate and friendly, the effect of this film should be delicate. Enoch Arden, as Mr. Lindsay sees it, is the most successful drama of this kind.
People become tired of mere contraptions.
But they never grow weary of imagination. Crowd splendor, patriotic splendor, religious splendor, further entice him. While the motion picture is shallow in showing private passion, it is powerful in conveying the passion of masses of men. He illustrates from the Battle, an old Griffith biograph. He analyzes the spectacular symbolism of Cabiria.